Gorsuch And Kavanaugh “Will Pay The Price”

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (Demented-NY) appallingly declared outside the United States Supreme Court, "You have unleashed the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."

“We will stand with the American people. We will stand with American women,” Schumer said. “We will tell President Trump and Senate Republicans who have stacked the court with right-wing ideologues that you’re going to be gone in November and you will never be able to do what you are trying to do now ever, ever again. You hear that over there on the far right? You’re going to be gone in November.”

Inside the court, the Justices heard oral arguments about the fate of a Louisiana abortion clinic regulation that requires doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital.

Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy told the crowd that legislation he introduced in January would extend that admitting privileges provision nationwide if “compassion or common sense prevails before this court today.”

“The idea that a woman in any state, not just Louisiana, but in any state in this great country, should suffer at the hands of a health care provider who doesn’t even have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital is barbaric.”

Schumer’s unhinged threats drew the ire of Chief Justice John Roberts who issued a rare public statement rebuking the minority leader.

“This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside. Senator Schumer referred to two Members of the Court by name and said he wanted to tell them that ‘You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.’ 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. All Members of the Court will continue to do their job, without fear or favor, from whatever quarter,” Roberts wrote.

This behavior must not be countenanced. It has to be condemned as unconstitutional conduct and to that end Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) said Wednesday night, “I would call on Schumer to apologize, but we all know he has no shame.  So, tomorrow I will introduce a motion to censure Schumer for his pathetic attempt at intimidation of the Supreme Court.”

Cognizant that Schumer had, in effect screwed the pooch, his spokesman Justin Goodman issued a statement.

“Sen. Schumer’s comments were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision. For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsberg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes.”

Goodman was referring to what President Trump tweeted on February 24, 2020 saying Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor “should recuse themselves” from adjudicating matters related either to him or his Administration.

The difference is abundantly clear.  The President was offering criticism; Chucky was making an egregiously dangerous and intemperate threat of harm.

Sen. John Kennedy’s reaction to Schumer's comments on Gorsuch, Kavanaugh:

Sen. Kennedy reacts to Sen. Schumer's comments on Gorsuch, Kavanaugh https://t.co/hFrWLvsBzU

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