He can try to dial back his rhetoric, but he made a threat if they do not comply. What “political consequences” would a sitting senator have on sitting supreme court? No, he was spurring his mob to action since he is too much of a coward to do anything on his own.
Words have CONSEQUENCES, Chuck! RESIGN or face felony charges.
He wasn't dialing back his rhetoric. Which is worse, making a threat to a justice or advocating murdering babies? In my book, killing babies is worse and for that alone this needs to be made a long lasting issue. Schumer needs to be very uncomfortable until he takes a commentator job on PMSNBC.