Democrats threaten US Supreme Court justices

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Not a good idea for anyone to do this at any time, for any reason.

First, the Wednesday, March 4th story from the WashingtonExaminer.com:

Chuck Schumer threatens Kavanaugh and Gorsuch will ‘pay the price’ if they rule the wrong way

by Becket Adams

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch Wednesday after the conservative Supreme Court justices signaled a willingness to uphold a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to acquire hospital admitting privileges.

And that clinics be within 30 miles of a hospital.

These are Senator Schumer’s comments on video at the pro-abortion rally outside the Supreme Court building in DC.

Senator Schumer said:

“They’re taking away fundamental rights. I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind! And you will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

Oddly enough, it appears Senator Chuck Schumer was successful in promulgating frothing insanity there at the US Supreme court.

What “awful decisions” have been made by Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, might you rightly ask? The answer is: no decisions. These words were predicated but upon a decision the likes of which Gorsuch and Kavanaugh may make in the future.

They haven’t made a decision yet. And no one knows precisely how they will decide. Additionally, of interest is the fact that Schumer didn’t threaten any other so-called “conservative” justice like, say, Justice Thomas. Schumer only threatened the jurists nominated by President Trump.

Also: why might admitting privileges and a nearby hospital be important? Because there can easily be medical complications in any abortion — and a Planned Parenthood or similar facility is not a hospital and does not inherently possess life-saving equipment and people inherently trained in life-saving measures as one would customarily acquire at a certified hospital or trauma center. Admitting privileges at a given hospital indicate a better trained individual familiar with local medical facilities, procedures.

Senator Schumer is stating, quite unequivocally, that he is against this. That means that he essentially could not care less about the life of the child — obviously — but more importantly, he apparently could not care less about the life of the mother.

As you might expect, some people did not care for the remarks — Chief Justice John Roberts in particular. From NBCNews.com:

In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Schumer for ‘threatening’ comments

by Pete Williams

“You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” the senator from New York said of Trump appointees to the bench..

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts publicly chastised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday over comments Schumer made outside the Supreme Court as the justices were hearing a case on abortion rights.

In a highly unusual written statement issued late Wednesday, Roberts said, “Statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous.”

“All members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter,” Roberts said.

Of course, Senator Schumer fell back on the standard Mark I, Model I lying-ass excuse of “I didn’t mean it.” From the LATimes.com:

Speaking on the Senate floor, Schumer said his words “didn’t come out the way I intended to.”

“My point was that there would be political consequences for President Trump and Senate Republicans if the Supreme Court, with the newly confirmed justices, stripped away a woman’s right to choose,” he said. He added: “I’m from Brooklyn. We speak in strong language.”

Uh, no. He said precisely what me meant to say. What he said wasn’t generic, it was very, very specific. He didn’t name President Trump. He didn’t name Senate Republicans. Schumer named, quite literally: Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. Very specific names.

As Hugh Hewitt wrote in response:

“It is far more grave than a mistake. It is a threat against individuals who live with them daily. It is an attack on the judiciary. It is an incitement to violence. It is a debacle and a terrible day for the country.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said:

“Contrary to what the Democratic leader has tried to claim, he very clearly was not addressing Republican lawmakers or anybody else. He literally directed the statement to the justices, by name. And he said, quote, ‘if you go forward with these awful decisions,’ which could only apply to the court itself. The minority leader of the United States Senate threatened two associate justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. Period.”

Now let’s think about what Schumer really meant.

The reality is that there won’t be so-called “political consequences” to any Supreme Court jurist. They are appointed for life. You can’t reduce their pay. You’d have to reduce the pay for all of them. So what could Schumer mean? Logically, what’s remaining?

I suppose, yes, you could dox them. Reveal their home addresses on the internet. The places where they shop or worship or their favorite restaurants. Clubs they attend. Personally-excoriating information.

The last thing possible would be actual violence. This would be wrong — not to mention illegal — on so many levels.

What Schumer’s rhetoric does do, as we have seen so many times before by Leftists, Demorats, Antifa et al, is grant a sort of tacit carte blanche to those who really do wish to enable violence. We’ve seen that on so many prior occasions.

You know: the kind of national Leftist violence we’re going to see on November 4th when President Trump is re-elected.

Senator Chuck Schumer views what the Supremes could do as “incrementalism.” You know: the kind of “incrementalism” that Leftists and Demorats pull on Republicans and Conservatives in terms of the First Amendment or the Second Amendment. Or essentially anything else involving freedoms and liberties.

Finally, you noticed my headline indicated “Democrats” and not just Senator Chuck Schumer. Why? Because that’s precisely the headline you’d get were things reversed.

What do you think the results would be had House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said those things of Leftist jurists Ginsburg and Sotomayor? The headline would have lumped all Republicans together; you know it and I know it. And we both know that the story would have been topping the news for at least a week. “Racist” this, “sexist” that. “Republicans threaten the lives of female Supreme Court justices.”

So save the faux “outrage” and the outright threats, Senator Schumer, over “ruling the wrong way” and abortion. The Supreme Court has been ruling against Conservatives for decades and you didn’t see politicians threaten jurists. As a matter of fact, the history of threatening jurists rests with the Demorat Party.

From ThinkProgress.org in 2019:

Five Democratic senators just declared all-out war on the Supreme Court

by Ian Millhiser

Whitehouse is one of five senators (the others are Sens. Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)) who filed a brief earlier this week in a Second Amendment case the Supreme Court’s Republican majority could use to dismantle what remains of America’s gun regulations. Whitehouse is also the lead (and only) counsel on the brief.

The brief itself is less a legal document than a declaration of war. Though parts of it argue that the high court lacks jurisdiction over this case, New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. City of New York, the thrust of the brief is that the Supreme Court is dominated by political hacks selected by the Federalist Society, and promoted by the National Rifle Association — and that if those hacks don’t watch out, the American people are going to rebel against them.

Oddly enough, that didn’t happen. The world didn’t stop rotating on its axis. But doesn’t the rhetoric sound a bit familiar? Did Schumer tap the Five Angry Demorats for inspiration?

I submit: yes he did.

We all know the truth here.

Schumer threatened sitting jurists on the US Supreme Court.

And he meant every word.

BZ

 

 

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