In March of 2020, Senate Minority Leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer, issued a threat against two Supreme Court Justices, naming them by name in his verbal threat. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh had been nominated, and ultimately appointed, by President Trump and his allies in the U.S. Senate earlier during his first term. The hatred of President Trump by the Democrats in the months preceding the Election in 2020 was at, perhaps, its highest level so far, when Schumer decided to make these remarks, but it really goes deeper than most folks realize.
Schumer gave a nonapology
Trump had just escaped the Democrat Party’s impeachment attempt, his popularity among his supporters was louder than ever, his rallies were attracting non-republicans and minorities at a record pace, and their hopes to dislodge him in the upcoming presidential election were visibly waning fast. With the liberal left’s anger running high, desperate measures by beaten scoundrels was all that remained. Rhetoric about getting in the faces of Republicans by people like Maxine Waters was becoming the everyday chant, and a movie titled “The Hunt,” in which liberal elitists hunt political “deplorables” was hitting the theaters. Chaos was ringing in the air, and desperate times call for desperate measures when political animals believe their own lies about how dangerous Trump was to the safety and security of the country. In that moment, as the socialists screamed for fairness for Comrade Bernie Sanders in the primary season, Trump supporters filed in by the hundreds of thousands to Keep America Great rallies, and the Democrat political machine made moves to ensure crazy Joe Biden remained relevant in a presidential race the Democrats were fast realizing would be a loser to Trump in November, Schumer loaded his weapon of mass political rhetoric, cocked it, and fired.
Chuck Schumer, a high ranking democrat, and the Senate Minority Leader, decided in a moment of rage to show poor judgment. With a shot that was heard around the country he took a step into a world of no return, a political moment of rage that could be called “reckless abandonment” and “severe irresponsibility.” He stood in front of a microphone on a stage facing a cheering leftist crowd and he said, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch; I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.”
Later, Schumer gave a nonapology that reminded me of the kind formulated by Sheldon Cooper, an arrogant (yet unaware of his arrogance) fictional character on a television show called “Big Bang Theory” whose apologies essentially amount to “sorry you took it wrong,” or “sorry you couldn’t handle what I said.” Schumer admitted he might have misspoken, but blamed others for “manufacturing outrage” regarding his comment.
Defend America’s wholesale slaughter of unborn babies
Why would he say such a thing in the first place? Why would Chucky Schumer go down a road that even had fellow Democrats appalled and ready to demand that he be censured?
To defend America’s wholesale slaughter of unborn babies.
To fight for a woman’s perceived right to sacrifice the blood of an innocent unborn child to the dark gods of liberalism and promiscuous convenience.
The verbal attack by Schumer was during a rally for abortion just outside the Supreme Court as the justices were hearing an abortion-related case. He was warning the two justices of the possible ramifications of a politically incorrect decision in the case, June Medical Services v. Russo, and he was willing to do so with a compliant mob with him, who were already riled up to a level of viciousness that rivaled that of the mobs attacking Candidate Kavanaugh only a year and a half before.
The federal court case was a legal challenge to a Louisiana pro-life law sponsored by a black female Democratic legislator, State Senator Katrina Jackson. Constitutionally, based on the language in the Tenth Amendment, abortion is a State issue, and the federal government has no authority to be involved. Nonetheless, Jackson’s Unsafe Abortion Protection Act, which calls for abortion practitioners to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles of the clinic as a safety measure, was under attack and was being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Democrats claim that it is Donald Trump using dangerous rhetoric that could be viewed as inciting violence
Schumer’s verbal threat was issued by name against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh because Schumer wanted the court to illegally strike down the law as unconstitutional. Never mind that the federal government not only has no constitutional authority over the abortion issue, but that according to Article I, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution, all legislative powers belong to legislative bodies; so for the court to strike down a law, it would be acting unconstitutionally also by performing a legislative action from the bench.
Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, Schumer directed, “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Yet, the Democrats claim that it is Donald Trump using dangerous rhetoric that could be viewed as inciting violence.
Schumer later explained that his comments threatening Gorsuch, Kavanuagh were a "deliberate misinterpretation" and that he was threatening "Senate Republicans," not SCOTUS.
While I believe his threats against Gorsuch, Kavanaugh were accurately reported, it’s not much of an apology to say, “yes, I issued a threat inciting violence, but you misunderstood who that threat was directed at.”
“Unhinged”
Representative Steve Scalise, a Republican representing Louisiana in the U.S. House of Representatives, said that Schumer’s remarks were “unhinged.” Scalise, after all, is familiar with what happens when violence is incited, and lefties take it seriously. He was nearly fatally shot in June 2017 by an unhinged radical supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders while practicing for a congressional baseball game in Washington D.C.
Chief Justice John Roberts issued a written statement regarding Schumer’s remarks.
“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous.”
President Donald Trump also weighed in, echoed later by Congressman Jim Jordan, tweeting, “This is a direct & dangerous threat to the U.S. Supreme Court by Schumer. If a Republican did this, he or she would be arrested, or impeached. Serious action MUST be taken NOW.”
This is not Schumer’s first offense, either. In January of 2017 he told Rachel Maddow on MSNBC in a message to then President-elect Trump, "You take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you."
Criticisms are one thing. Outright violent threats are a whole different ballgame
Even House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat from San Francisco, California, conceded the inappropriateness of Schumer’s remarks pointed at Trump’s appointed Supreme Court Justices. “It wasn’t right for anybody to do,” she said. Then, she followed that up with accusations against Trump for his rhetoric.
It sounded like a couple of kids. “Yeah, but he did it too, and he was meaner.”
For the most part, the Democrats circled the wagons around Schumer, with some claiming Trump was just as guilty due to his own remarks regarding liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Criticisms are one thing. Outright violent threats are a whole different ballgame.
Trump’s criticism of Sotomayor and Ginsburg didn’t involve anything that could be construed as threats of physical violence to their personal safety. Josh Hawley, a Republican Senator from Missouri, issued a censure resolution against Schumer, but in the end Senate Democrats willing to break ranks and help deliver the “rebuke” of Schumer’s ill-tempered remarks were not exactly in the cards.
Long ago, even Democrat President Bill Clinton would not have stood for such language. In 1999, Clinton said, “We must stop the politics of personal destruction. We must get rid of the poisonous venom of excessive partisanship, obsessive animosity, and uncontrolled anger.”
Fast forward twenty years, the response by today’s Democrats is, “Never mind, let the threats roll, but only blame Trump as being the one inciting violence against opposing views.”
Douglas V. Gibbs of Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary, has been featured on “Hannity” and “Fox and Friends” on Fox News Channel, and other television shows and networks. Doug is a Radio Host on KMET 1490-AM on Saturdays with his Constitution Radio program, as well as a longtime podcaster, conservative political activist, writer and commentator. Doug can be reached at douglasvgibbs [at] yahoo.com or constitutionspeaker [at] yahoo.com.
In March of 2020, Senate Minority Leader, Democrat Chuck Schumer, issued a threat against two Supreme Court Justices, naming them by name in his verbal threat. Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh had been nominated, and ultimately appointed, by President Trump and his allies in the U.S. Senate earlier during his first term. The hatred of President Trump by the Democrats in the months preceding the Election in 2020 was at, perhaps, its highest level so far, when Schumer decided to make these remarks, but it really goes deeper than most folks realize. 
