Posted on 03/05/2020 12:15:46 AM PST by Morgana
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened Trump-nominated Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh Wednesday, telling them they will “pay the price” if they uphold a pro-life law from Louisiana that saves babies from abortion and protects women’s health.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price, Schumer yelled into the mic before a crowd of abortion supporters.
“You won’t know what hit you if you go through with these awful decisions,” he added.
Responding to the tirade, pro-life Sen. Ben Sasse tore into Schumer.
“The Democratic Party is so radicalized on abortion politics that today Chuck Schumer threatened Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh if they didn’t strike down a simple, common-sense, pro-woman law that simply says that abortion doctors need to have admission privileges at a local hospital,” the Nebraska Republican said Wednesday in a statement. “Think about this, if a Republican threatened Justice Sotomayor or Justice Ginsburg, it would be the biggest story not just in Washington but all across America.”
“But, Chuck Schumer’s bully tactics aren’t getting much air time right now because there’s so many people in bed with his defense of abortion and his attack on an independent judiciary. These bullying tactics need to stop,” Sasse added.
The Supreme Court this morning held oral arguments on a key pro-life law that saves babies from abortion and protects women from dangerous abortions that could jeopardize their lives and health.
The 2014 Louisiana law at the center of the case requires abortion providers to have hospital admitting privileges to treat patients with emergency complications. If allowed to take effect, it could close shoddy abortion facilities that are not prepared to help patients suffering from emergency complications.
Because they know it is drek and did not want it to show on their nice congressional ties.
Pro-abortion/right-to-murder crowd is the most hateful ever.
Nope, a 30 oz. aluminum bat and drive the “ball” deep to center...
It might be a good idea to suspend anti-murder laws for a year or two. Freedom of choice.
Scmuck tried to justify his remarks by saying Justice Roberts did not say anything to Trump...but trump only said that two heavily biased justices should recuse themselves. The senator’s words went FAR beyond that.
It qualifies as a legal threat...
There are three elements of the offense of making an illegal threat:
(i) there must be a transmission in interstate commerce [Schumer’s words were transmitted by video, radio, blogs].
(ii) there must be a communication containing the threat [Schumer in front of crowd with a microphone and cameras].
(iii) and the threat must be a threat to injure the person of another:
“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.” -Chuck Schumer 3/4/2020
What would “you would pay the price” can a sitting senator do to a sitting Supreme Court Justice? “You will not know what hit you” IS A THREAT and “if you go forward with these awful decisions” is obstruction of justice.
Threats can also sometimes be punished under the statutes criminalizing assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain United States Government officers or employees or assassinating, kidnapping, and assaulting government officials of the United States.
When a threat is made against a judge, it can be considered obstruction of justice [18 U.S.C. § 1503].
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What’s to keep one of these kooks from acting “on Schumer’s behalf” upon hearing his blatent threats?
Schumer is a sly fox and doesn't "make mistakes" like he's claiming he did. He knows just what he's doing...and so does sly fox Justice Roberts.
This was all choreographed....and folks don't realize it.
Leni
Good point.
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