An activist group that offered cash to anyone who saw the conservative Supreme Court justices is now planning on crashing this year’s Congressional Baseball Game.
The group, ShutDownDC, went as far as to say the charity game, set for July 28 at Nationals Park, could get nixed if enough people show up. The group shared a link for people to sign up. The link sends users to another activist group’s website, the Now or Never collective, which is organizing the protest due to Congress’s inaction on climate change.
“The monsters tearing apart our country deserve no peace,” ShutDownDC wrote on social media. “If 100s of us turn out to the Congressional Baseball Game this month and risk arrest, there’s a real chance we could shut the whole thing down.”
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We disrupted Brett Kavanaugh’s steak dinner and we will disrupt the Congressional Baseball Game. The monsters tearing apart our country deserve no peace.
— ShutDownDC (@ShutDown_DC) July 18, 2022
The baseball game is the first target for Now or Never, with other planned protests set for Aug. 5 and Sept. 30, according to its website. ShutDownDC did not mention if it will join Now or Never on those dates.
The Congressional Baseball Game has been held since 1909 and sees members of Congress play a baseball game in support of various charities in Washington, D.C., including the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington, the Washington Nationals Philanthropies, and the Washington Literacy Center.
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ShutDownDC offered “bounties” as high as $200 in early July to anyone who saw Justices John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, or Amy Coney Barrett and shared their location. All six of the justices targeted by the group ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that Mississippi can maintain its law banning abortion after 15 weeks of gestation on June 24. Roe v. Wade, which established the right to an abortion across the nation, was also overturned as a result of that case.
The group did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
