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| Protesters confront McConnell leaving Kentucky restaurant |
| 2018-07-08 |
| [THEHILL] Protesters confronted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) as he was leaving a restaurant in his home state on Saturday. The group threatened to vote McConnell out of office as he walked out of the Bristol Bar & Grille in Louisville and got into his car, The Courier Journal reported. Video recordings of the encounter show other demonstrators chanting "Abolish ICE" and "No justice, no peace." A protester demanded to know where the migrant children where after being separated from their families. "Where are the babies, Mitch?" a protester was recorded asking in a video. The comments seemingly come in reference to the thousands of migrant children who were separated from their parents from April to June under the Trump administrations "zero tolerance" policy. Trump moved to end family separations last month by signing an executive order, though no provision was made for the families who had already been separated. A federal judge gave the Trump administration until late Saturday to release a list of the roughly 100 migrant children under the age of five who were detained separately from their parents upon being apprehended after entering the United States illegally. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 Don't know what exactly the "abortion anywhere, anytime, for no reason at all, at the taxpayers' expense" crowd is worrying about. The states will be about as likely to follow Washington DC's lead as they seem to be on marijuana and sanctuary, which is to say not very much at all. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2018-07-08 07:55 |
| #1 I think the libs finally overplayed their hand with these goon tactics, and I predict this will result in McConnell pulling out all the stops to get Trump's SC pick to pass the Senate (i.e., leaning / strong-arming Collins & Murkowski to vote yes) just to spite them. |
| Posted by: Raj 2018-07-08 00:35 |