I noticed the line “they fear the broad call for removing top state officials could inspire others to act out violently.”
Does this mean a bumper sticker of “Impeach Obama” is assumed to provoke others to assassinate the SOB? The assumption that all dissent, even when it is explicitly a “vote out of office / impeach / recall” through legitimate and legal means, is a criminalization of all dissent.
Not a single USSC justice was shot at during that period.