Thousands of protesters hit streets across the US and begin to mass outside Clarence Thomas' home

Protesters sang and chanted outside the home of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday night, after he revealed he now has laws protecting gay marriage, gay sexual activity and contraception in his sights, after axing Roe v. Wade.

Across the country, demonstrators were taking to the streets to express their anger at the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the 50-year law that guaranteed access to abortion in every state.

In New York City, a crowd thousands strong massed in Union Square and Washington Square Park, and then marched up Park Avenue. In Washington DC, Union Square was the site of demonstrations, while protesters from Boston to Philadelphia, Atlanta, Detroit and Los Angeles marched in fury. 

Outside Thomas’s Virginia home, a crowd of several dozen people waved placards, drummed and waved flags.

‘My body, my choice!’ they yelled, holding aloft posters labelling Thomas a ‘treasonous turd’ and proclaiming: ‘Reproductive rights = human rights.’ 

One woman wore the…

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