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— PoliticalClownParade (@PoliticalClownP) March 5, 2020
