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Related: WATCH: US Senator Chuck Schumer Threatens Two Chief Justices
“You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you.”
Daybreak Insider: Senator Chuck Schumer said these shocking words: “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” (National Review). From Hugh Hewitt: 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 (Twitter). From the Wall Street Journal: … the comments from Mr. Schumer reflect a significant escalation in Democratic efforts to bully the High Court. Last year five Democratic Senators led by Sheldon Whitehouse (R.I.) submitted a brief in which they effectively threatened to pack the Court if it didn’t rule their way in a Second Amendment case (WSJ). From Chief Justice John Roberts: “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” (National Review). Team Schumer called all of this a “right wing” misinterpretation (Twitter). From Alexandra DeSanctis This is pure gaslighting. I was there. I heard the whole context (Twitter). Ed Morrissey explains how this reveals “Chuck Schumer is a hopeless windbag demagogue rather than a serious person worthy of public trust” (Hot Air). From Ben Shapiro: Chuck Schumer’s comments on the Supreme Court today demonstrate that while the media and Democrats insist that Trump murdered American political norms, he was actually just the coroner who declared them dead (Twitter). There’s talk of a censure (Daily Caller). From Senator Susan Collins: I agree with Chief Justice Roberts. These statements by Senator Schumer are outrageous (Twitter).
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🚨 UNHINGED → Schumer threatened conservative justices Kavanaugh & Gorsuch on the steps of the Supreme Court:
"You have released the whirlwind & you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you."
Enough. This rhetoric has dangerous consequences. Where's the media outrage? pic.twitter.com/SiGNHxG0iX
— Steve Scalise (@SteveScalise) March 4, 2020
Chief Justice Roberts issues rare rebuke to Schumer, calling comments on Kavanaugh and Gorsuch ‘dangerous’ and ‘irresponsible’
By Gregg Re, FOX News, March 5, 2020:
Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts on Wednesday issued a highly unusual and forceful rebuke to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., calling his threatening remarks directed at Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh “irresponsible” and “dangerous” — prompting Schumer’s office to slam Roberts and accuse him of bias.
The extraordinary back-and-forth began hours earlier at a pro-choice rally hosted by the Center for Reproductive Rights, when Schumer ominously singled out President Trump’s two Supreme Court picks: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price!” Schumer warned. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Roberts replied in his remarkable written statement, obtained by Fox News: “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.'”
Roberts continued: “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.”
Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman quickly responded by accusing Roberts of bias, further escalating the confrontation. Goodman insisted that Schumer was addressing Republican lawmakers when he said a “price” would be paid — even though Schumer had explicitly named Kavanaugh and Gorsuch.
“Women’s health care rights are at stake and Americans from every corner of the country are in anguish about what the court might do to them,” Goodman said in a statement to Fox News. “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.”
He added: “For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices [Sonia] Sotomayor and [Ruth Bader] Ginsberg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes.”
That was an apparent reference to Trump’s call for those liberal justices to recuse themselves from some cases due to alleged bias. (“I just don’t know how they cannot recuse themselves to anything having to do with Trump or Trump-related,” Trump said. Ginsburg, who has publicly defended Kavanaugh and Gorsuch as “very decent” and “very smart,” previously called Trump a “faker,” and Sotomayor sharply criticized the administration in a recent dissent.)
WATCH: Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer threatens U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett 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!"pic.twitter.com/e1qKzocJDj
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) March 4, 2020
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! https://t.co/WqQUbyzaJU
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2020
Video of Schumer’s remarks had quickly circulated on social media, with Republicans and prominent liberals casting the comments as a clear threat against two sitting Supreme Court justices. Schumer, they said, had gone far beyond merely requesting that justices recuse themselves as he stood in front of the Supreme Court Building.
Late Wednesday, Trump used Schumer’s own words to condemn him.
“There can be few things worse in a civilized, law abiding nation, than a United States Senator openly, and for all to see and hear, threatening the Supreme Court or its Justices,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “This is what Chuck Schumer just did. He must pay a severe price for this!”
Trump also tweeted: “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!”
There can be few things worse in a civilized, law abiding nation, than a United States Senator openly, and for all to see and hear, threatening the Supreme Court or its Justices. This is what Chuck Schumer just did. He must pay a severe price for this!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 5, 2020
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said he would introduce a resolution to censure Schumer.
“I would call on Schumer to apologize, but we all know he has no shame,” Hawley wrote. “So tomorrow I will introduce a motion to censure Schumer for his pathetic attempt at intimidation of #SupremeCourt.”
Even left-wing Harvard Law School professor Laurence Tribe tweeted: “These remarks by @SenSchumer were inexcusable. Chief Justice Roberts was right to call him on his comments. I hope the Senator, whom I’ve long admired and consider a friend, apologizes and takes back his implicit threat. It’s beneath him and his office.”
These remarks by @SenSchumer were inexcusable. Chief Justice Roberts was right to call him on his comments. I hope the Senator, whom I’ve long admired and consider a friend, apologizes and takes back his implicit threat. It’s beneath him and his office. https://t.co/xbNnUeznRR
— Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ (@tribelaw) March 4, 2020
The American Bar Association is deeply troubled by today’s statements from the Senate Minority Leader threatening two sitting justices of the U.S. Supreme Court over their upcoming votes in a pending case,” the ABA said in a statement. “Whatever one thinks about the merits of an issue before a court, there is no place for threats — whether real or allegorical. Personal attacks on judges by any elected officials, including the President, are simply inappropriate. Such comments challenge the reputation of the third, co-equal branch of our government; the independence of the judiciary; and the personal safety of judicial officers. They are never acceptable.”
During Kavanaugh’s contentious confirmation battle in late 2018, a mob of left-wing protesters banged on the doors of the Supreme Court Building, many of them complaining about his possible future abortion rulings.
Schumer did not specifically explain what “price” the justices would face. During the rally, however, Schumer did go on to describe how Republican lawmakers could be impacted politically.
“We will tell President Trump and Senate Republicans who have stacked the court with right-wing ideologues that you’re gonna be gone in November, and you will never be able to do what you’re trying to do now ever, ever again!” he said. Earlier in his address, Schumer had accused Republican legislatures of “waging a war on women” and said reproductive rights are “under attack in a way we haven’t seen in modern history.”
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32 Comments
4 years ago
Looks as if chucky has taken a page from Uncle Max’s (Representative Waters) playbook.
From now one, should we call it Auntie Chuckie?
4 years ago
“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”….CHUCK SCHUMER
NO, Judge Roberts. THESE THREATS ARE NOT BENEATH CHUCK SCHUMER. Trying to impeach a sitting President on HEARSAY, LIES, AND ASSUMPTIONS is who Schumer, Pelosi, Water, Nadler, and the rest of THOSE SLIMY DEMOCRAT HYPOCRITES, are.
HOW MUCH MORE SPECIFIC DOES ANYONE WANT THIS **THREAT** TO OUR SCOTUS TO BE THAN THIS?
SCHUMER and his slimey ilk need to removed from political office.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
Yes, Schumer and the Dems are ignoring the shootings of politicians. Scalise is lucky to be alive. Encouraging violence is serious business, when 99% of mass shootings are done by Democrats, Leftists, and/or Islamists.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
He should be arrested and subject to intense questioning by federal law enforcement authorities.
Wonder why Vice President Pence who,, as president of the Senate, and with the authority delegated him, has not been more pro-active dealing with one Senator who is so far out of bounds he should be dismissed without recourse.
4 years ago
Reply to
TomSJr
And it couldn’t happen soon enough he should pay a heavy price for this !
4 years ago
In this person, inner life and appearance form a rare harmonious unit. I just always ask myself: With what magic trick did this scarecrow manage to sire a halfway sightly (although stupid) daughter named Amy? Wasn’t it not in truth the mailman or the plumber?
4 years ago
Chucky Schumer’s bilious, dangerous, and irresponsible rant typifies the entire faux-Democrats’ narrative of hate-mongering. Anyone, in this case, the Associated Justices, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh, dared not toe the Democrats’ sense of entitlement and their endeavor for a faux-Democratic Party dictatorship.
One appreciates Chief Justice Robert’s rebuke, but Schumer and his fetid, treasonous Party should face a weighted censuring of Schumer and the entire Party that finds no fault in its inciting civil-disobedience by threatening the lives of Republican, the politicians, or Republican voters. It will, however, not come to pass, this so-called Democratic Party deems itself as above the foundation of the Republic, the Constitution. This Party of unmitigated bigotry, hatred for all of a differed politics, must pay the price for its perfidious intent. The Party’s ultimate end should be its outright collapse in the upcoming 2020 election.
4 years ago
Reply to
Ziggy46
There is a price he will pay someday, Ziggy, but this poster believes divine application is required for payment in full … eternity. He cannot afford what is coming.
4 years ago
If either of these judges is the victim of violence.
Schumer should face jail time.
Remember a crazed demorat shot and critically injured republican Scalise. Just because he is a republican.
There are a lot of very sick, crazed demorats out there.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Won’t argue. He has internationalist leanings much like the man who nominated him to begin with, that is, GW Bush.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Roberts got it right this time. He missed with so-called gay marriage on June 26, 2015 and with Obamacare beforehand (it is only a tax!). And as Felix pointed out (post below) MUCH more.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Roberts got it right this time. He missed with so-called gay marriage on June 26, 2015 and with Obamacare beforehand (it is only a tax!). And as Felix pointed out (post below) MUCH more.
4 years ago
Antifa-like threats against members of the Supreme Court, dog-whistles to all the violent leftist psychos lurking out there.
4 years ago
Reply to
AlgorithmicAnalyst
Agreed. We here in the Southern states have a simple assessment of cracks like those of Schumer’s, “Them’s fightin’ words”.
4 years ago
Hey, elitist hypocrite, Roberts – care to be CONSISTENT?
Spare me your holier than thou self righteousness. You and your Demoncrap appointed judges are no better. The only difference is you want to see yourselves as gods and goddess dictators. Some of us see how lawless and hypocrtical YOU are Judge Roberts. You HATE Trump too and that is why you ruled against a US citizen census question on citizenship being put back on the census for 2020 that HAD been on the census in other years. Why wouldn’t you want that question there? Why include ILLEGAL citizens on that? Is it because federal and state money is attached to it and you are someone else’s puppet?
What are YOU hiding, John Roberts? Why do YOU hate Trump? Need I ask about unconstitutional Obamacare that you made into a “tax”?
What about Ginsberg’s ATTACK on President Trump?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s unhinged assault on Trump
By Seth LipskyJuly 11, 2016
…
Ginsburg, Liptak notes, “takes a different approach.”
Then he quotes her as saying in her Supreme Court chambers: “I can’t imagine what this place would be — I can’t imagine what the country would be — with Donald Trump as our president.”
…
More here –
https://nypost.com/2016/07/11/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-unhinged-assault-on-trump/
How about YOUR Judge, an Obama appointee, attacking other Supreme Court Justices and politicizing their view and opinions?
Justice Sotomayor accuses SCOTUS conservative majority of pro-Trump bias
Posted by William A. Jacobson
Saturday, February 22, 2020 at 4:00pm
https://legalinsurrection.com/2020/02/justice-sotomayor-accuses-scotus-conservative-majority-of-pro-trump-bias/
How about YOUR rebuke, John Roberts, to President Trump in stating the obvious about federal activists judges trying to lawlessly thwart Trump’s agenda for upholding the law?
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rebukes Donald Trump
Nov 2018
…
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts pushes back against Trump, saying there are no ‘Obama judges or Trump judges’.
…
https://www.bostonherald.com/2018/11/22/supreme-court-chief-justice-john-roberts-rebukes-donald-trump/
Even someone with half a brain can see Obama judges ruled against Trump or did their best to slow down our lawlessness. The pattern is consistent and still goes on. Haven’t you noticed that the problems have been with Obama judges and DEM appointed Supreme Court Justices? Why are you QUIET about that?
You, John Roberts are compromised. I don’t know if you are a closet homosexual or was there a problem with your Irish adopted children… but there is something wrong going on with you and YOUR RULINGS and lashing out against President Trump. So spare me your pious outburst when you should be ashamed of yourself too as well as your politically activists DEM Supreme Court Judges.
My values and beliefs are NEVER determined by YOUR rulings so rule away to zombies. I have NO RESPECT for YOU and YOUR corrupt, political activist judges.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
By golly Felix, I see that cha are sill tellin’ it like it is. Damn well done. Please don’t stop!!
4 years ago
Democrats go downright insane if they even think that their baby killing is in any kind of jeopardy whatsoever. I mean they flip right out! I’m sure you’ve all seen those despicable women in their so called women’s march. The conservative women in their right to life march put them to shame in more ways than one. Especially in the class department. But that’s not hard to do when you see the women of the Left in their tacky pink hats. I don’t need to remind anyone of what those hats represent do I? I just thought crying Chuck threatening two conservative Supreme Court Justices over something that hasn’t even happened yet so out of line and really crazy! Who is this moron to tell them how they have to vote? They all are seriously deranged and so out of touch with half of America but they still don’t get it. They will in November though.????
#Trump/Pence2020Landslide! #KAG
4 years ago
Reply to
Janet
Their party is the anti God, anti Christ, pro abort, pro state sanctioned man marrying man, LGBMANIA party of hate and vulgarity.
4 years ago
Reply to
Chet
Chet—Satan now rules the Dims. Seems as if they no longer believe that “murder is STILL murder”, huh??
4 years ago
Reply to
Pathfinder0100
Pathfinder, it seems they find nothing to be SIN nowadays, everything’s in shades of gray, no black & white. They fail to comprehend God Almighty never changes, never alters His Word (Holy Bible) to suit men…
4 years ago
Schumer is trash, plain and simple. The human fecal-pile belongs in prison.
4 years ago
McDonnell’s INACTION is proof how little he actually cares for the reputation of the US Senate. He should have been all over this on his own 10 minutes after Schumer threatened the Justices!!!
4 years ago
The Democrats are testing how far they could go without getting attacked and wiped out by the American silent majority.
Democrats sell their own grandmother in order to betray and rob the US Americans and whomever person or country.
Obviously the average US citizen is not yet interested to rumble those wicked and destructive Democrats and see through their Deep State…
Schumer is nothing but the DNC’s icecold contract killer !
4 years ago
His words are plain and to the point. No way to say he didn’t mean them to be taken any differently. Now it time to do something about this evil.
4 years ago
The face of a madman. How is that He and Shifty get to hide behind some free for all right that enables them to talk as they do and get by with it? Everyday citizens would not get by with this behaviour.
4 years ago
Because reminding women that we are inferior to a fertilized egg and cementing it in law is something one can expect only smiles and flowers for.
4 years ago
It is the stupidity of liberals to equate Trump’s criticisms of justices with Schumer’s actual threats of violence against them and their families. https://liberalsbackwardsthink.com/2020/03/02/democrats-agenda-driven-candidates/
4 years ago
He should be in handcuffs and leg chains for threatening a SCOTUS judge. As usual, the demonrats can get away with anything. I truly believe that there is some pantifa screwball that would take that as an order and carry out some attack.
4 years ago
Why, don’t cha know that nuttin’ will happen to “Cry-Baby” Schumer? I mean, after all, he is a Democrat and Dems are above the law!! (Sarc)
4 years ago
I think Schumer meant it just the way it was interpreted live in front of the Supreme Court Building. He referred to two justices by name. For anyone who disagreed with the ruling of these two justices, it was potential incitement to violence. For him to later come back and try to explain it away by various means to not be incitement is clearly disingenuous. The Senate cannot impeach a justice who is ruling on the Constitutionality of a case, only for committing crimes or for extreme unethical behavior. There is nothing else the Senate can do to a sitting Supreme Court or one or more justices. For Schumer to then launch a subsequent attack on the Chief Justice himself, only because the Chief Justice rebuked him for his remark, shows clearly what was motivating Schumer. Incite, attack, damage if able, then repeat, not an apology if the comeback was sincere! We are not dealing with sane people, and the bounds of their evil has no limit! It is Schumer, and all who think like him that should be removed from our government. This November is the deadline. The decision we make when we vote will help this country rebound toward greatness, or sink into despair and destruction. I choose MAGA, so I will vote straight Republican for the foreseeable future.
