Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is the latest to have his dinner interrupted.
A rep for the restaurant chainthat Kavanaugh and other patrons were “unduly harassed by unruly protestors… Politics, regardless of your side or views, should not trample the freedom at play of the right to congregate and eat dinner. There is a time and place for everything. Disturbing the dinner of all of our customers was an act of selfishness and void of decency.”
This confrontation of a public official enjoying a meal is among the first to make headlines since Trump and his cadre of divisive Cabinet Secretaries and White House staffers left office. It’s also an indication that this form of political protest isn’t going away anytime soon. Restaurants used to be reliable safe havens for Official Washington types. They were steadfastly bipartisan spaces where ideologies and the day’s news mattered little more than what wine came with dinner.
in the Trump era, when the administration’s controversial policies and heated rhetoric turned dining establishments into yet another political battleground.of then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen at Mexican restaurant MXDC. Nielsen had just defended the separation of children from their parents at the border when she was spotted having dinner.
“This administration just rises to a whole new level where we need to break the rules of etiquette,” Amanda Werner, who was among the protestors,
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