Phillip Schuller's brief 1976 activism overturned Maryland law — and paved the way for abortion rights protests at Supreme Court justices’ homes today.
“It’s correct to say that thanks to him, they’re not getting arrested,” said David Rocah, a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland.Youngkin, Hogan ask Justice Dept. to halt protests at justices’ homes
“I was a little young to do much protesting against Vietnam, and I didn’t,” Schuller said. “But I was oriented and came of age during Vietnam.” “Our country and the USSR have enough nuclear weapons right now to destroy everyone on earth several times over. This possession in itself is immoral,” the organizers wrote in letters to Rumsfeld, who was then the secretary of defense. “The options for the American people are clear. To fight for disarmament or to dig graves.”Ahead of the event at the Pentagon, the organizers held a four-day vigil outside Rumsfeld’s home, in the Maryland suburb of Bethesda.
“I just felt it was a public street,” he said. “It was just a spur-of-the-moment decision. I didn’t really think it through.” Arrested and charged with illegally picketing a protest, he went to jail with a few others for the afternoon.The next day, Philip Berrigan got arrested in front of the Pentagon, having helped dump blood on nine of the 16 columns at the building’s river entrance and spattered a number of security guards, too.
Schuller was in Pennsylvania when he was convicted that June. At trial — in a question that foreshadowed objections to abortion rights protests today — the judge asked Schuller’s lawyer, “When is Mr. Rumsfeld supposed to get his rest?”Schuller got a light sentence: five days in jail, suspended until he completed 10 days of unsupervised probation. But he and another college-age man, Sean Ozzie Simpkins, agreed to let the ACLU appeal their convictions.
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