“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.”
Those were the words of the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful elected officials in the nation, in March 2020. After spending years cynically delegitimizing the high court, Schumer had moved to openly threatening lifetime-appointed judges, by name, because he feared they would knock down the concocted constitutional right to an abortion.
Initially, Schumer refused to walk back those remarks. His spokesman ludicrously claimed the statement was “a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court.” Of course, the senator hadn’t singled out the Republican Party, or any Republican. He called out the two newest justices by name. “You” and “you.”
Yet, it is almost surely the case that the coverage of a California man carrying a weapon and burglary equipment near Brett Kavanaugh’s home, reportedly there to murder the Supreme Court justice over the leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, will not be tied to the rhetoric of Democrats like Schumer. CNN political reporters will not walk from one Democratic senator to the next, asking them if their rhetoric is responsible for inciting a man to show up at the Supreme Court justice’s home with a tactical knife, a Glock, ammunition, pepper spray and zip ties. We will not have a national conversation about the specter of leftist violence.
In 2017, when James Hodgkinson walked onto a baseball field in Alexandria, Virginia, and opened fire, with the intention of massacring Republican leadership, few outlets even mentioned that he was a big fan of socialist Bernie Sanders, a man who tells minions that the nation is on the precipice of fascism. No one in the media blamed Sanders for the actions of a madman. The standards of culpability for political violence differ from situation to situation.
When cosplay Nazis rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, every Republican was asked to take ownership of a movement that had nothing to do with their beliefs. When leftist unrest across the nation causes billions in damage and destroys thousands of lives, one could barely get anyone in the media to admit it was even happening. When a goofy (largely FBI-hatched) kidnapping plot on Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was stopped, it was a major story, framed as a microcosm of MAGA terrorism. Today there is a slew of attacks on anti-abortion centers across the country, and it barely gets any notice.
And normally I wouldn’t blame Democrats for the actions of extremists, either. The problem is that not only does the left continue to push the boundaries with Schumer-like threats but they are engaged in the relentless, daily smearing of their political opponents as seditious, vote-stealing, child-murdering fascists and insurgents. If this were true, violence would be justified. But it’s a sinister lie.
Moreover, though most people abhor violence, there is a concerted effort to intimidate justices. When Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Jen Psaki if activists posting maps to homes and doxxing Supreme Court justices was the “kind of thing this president wants?” she responded: “Look, I think the president’s view is that there’s a lot of passion, a lot of fear, a lot of sadness from many, many people across this country about what they saw in that leaked document.” Kavanaugh’s would-be murderer told the FBI he got the idea to kill the Supreme Court justice after finding his address posted on the internet.
And let’s not forget that the White House encouraged people to go to the justices’ homes to protest. This is an attack not only on separation of powers but also basic norms of civility. The same people who are clamoring to limit free expression can’t even ask their people to observe basic decency. Biden, not long ago, argued that harassing Sen. Kyrsten Sinema in the bathroom to pressure her to support Build Back Better was “part of the process.” The people who promised to bring back norms are engaged in abnormal behavior.
As of this writing, House Democrats have still refused to vote for the Supreme Court Police Parity Act, passed a month ago by the Senate, which would offer enhanced protection for all justices. It is not unreasonable to assume that those House Democrats want justices to feel intimidated. That was almost surely the goal behind the Dobbs leak, and the reason Schumer stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and threatened two justices by name. Unless grown-ups take over, things are going to get out of hand.
You might recall candidate Biden was even more emphatic about the dangers of governing by White House edict, noting that there are things you “can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator. We’re a democracy. We need consensus.”
David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Harsanyi is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of five books — the most recent, “Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” His work has appeared in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reason, New York Post and numerous other publications. Follow him on Twitter @davidharsanyi.
” the dangers of governing by White House edict, noting that there are things you “can’t do by executive order unless you’re a dictator.”
And this treasonous, destructive, unethical, immoral, socialist Democrat Party considers themselves dictators and gods.
If WE the PEOPLE Do Not destroy this treasonous, destructive, unethical, immoral, socialist Democrat Party, then this Democrat Party will destroy the U.S.A. and we will become the “Socialist Democrat Party State” dictatorship.
The Treasonous, dishonest, destructive, Socialist Democrat Party game plan is to lie, cheat and steal in order to take total control of the American people, by restricting U.S. oil production, increase Taxes on everything and bring American commerce and economy to its knees and to promote Socialism.
Then access power and retain it by any means available –
no matter the costs to the people, the government or the nation.
This treasonous, Hateful, destructive, immoral, socialist Democrat Party and their corrupt, demented puppet president has become our country’s most destructive and deadliest ENEMY!
ALL propped up by the slavish followers in the FBI/DOJ and the like.
I think they knew full well what was going to happen. They have the ability to think before they speak and I believe they used the very words that they intended.
why is he not in jail for threats to a sitting judge?
because he is an elite and a demoncrat.
the hatred in the people is epic and i can not see how it has not eat them up inside.
AND no one in power, that has the RESPONSIBILITY to enforce the laws, will do a damn thing about it.. PROVING that there is a multi-tier justice system.
Democrats have no respect for the third EQUAL branch of government except when it rules in their direction. They cannot control like they can the executive branch because it is not easily swayed by politics, why else would they try to pack it with stooges instead of adherants to The Constitution itself? Senator Schumer went to far in his attack on the Supreme Court Justices who he named just as a certain member of Congress went too far in urging members of Donald Trump’s cabinet be confronted in public, neither really weighing the consequences!
Judges like Kavanaugh released the whirlwind,,,,the one that will blow all the Democrats back to their scarecrow land of oz and collectives of promoted fear, just where they belong, to dwell among the mental munchkins and cowardly lions and heartless tin men that they create, in their own version of the three equal branches of American government. Kansas and the rest of American will be well rid of them whose distorted brains believe “There is no place like Homo” instead of “No place like Home” and that clicking the heels of their blood red ruby abortion slippers, thinking that will take them to a place that resembles a secular heaven, not the hell of their own making, falsely believing they can rule over the minds, the hearts, the courage of an American people who have faced and overcome the blown out twisters of distorted minds a lot more powerful than this generation of weaklings have to offer. Death follows them where ever they rule, and will be the fitting end when they finally visit it upon themselves.
Correction. THEY HAVE NO respect for anything, UNLESS it furthers their power.
schumer is not what i would call a powerful poiticion, he is a liberal ,coward and a moron to boot.
When it comes to Schumer hate speech setting up Supreme Court Justices for assasination,,”,if the Shoe fits wear it”,,,if the Schumer benefits, beware it.
I like to see public hearing on democrats when Republican s retake the senate. I want to see prime time t.v. Hearings
HEARINGS without any enforcement of punishments though, will be a waste of time and money.
Chuck Schumer will experience the hand of God. This will be a major smackdown. Amen.
Unfortunately, Chuck doesn’t realize that the whirlwind could also blow in his direction. Like it says in the Bible, “they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch.” Good luck Chuck and Nancy, et al.
Wonder if this the way someone wants vacancies in SCOTUS so his puppets can replace those that were hit as he stated.
Wouldn’t surprise me one bit. REMEMBER how they did scalia.
Democrats HATE YOU!
Make it a billboard including various issues with big up arrows: Gas, Crime, Illegal Immigration