Posted on 03/04/2020 2:52:58 PM PST by NobleFree
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 seemingly threatening remarks directed at Associated Justices Neal 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 wont know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions."
"This morning, Senator Schumer spoke at a rally in front of the Supreme Court while a case was being argued inside," Roberts said in his remarkable written statement, obtained by Fox News. "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
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] For Justice Roberts to follow the right wings 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. [
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Both sides are at war....this is what we’re watching.
There might have been two interpretations of the threat: first, that the justices would be impeached, or second, that they would be physically assaulted.
Schumer is a Nazi. The boy needs to be deported.
It’s 1859.
Kabuki
Roberts will vote liberal, especially on this case
Ill be shocked if he doesnt
Beyond inciting insurrection....Schumer and each one of the cheering ghouls have bathed in the blood of millions of innocent children and yet it is never enough.
Since when do members of the judiciary care about prices to be paid by members of the legislature? No, this was a naked threat against the two justices, plain and simple. It's disgusting, and in a sane Republic would never be tolerated.
Either or he indicated clearly a threat to the Judges....be it political or physical. And this with a case before them.
How Alinsky of them to use the supposed neutrality of the Court as the weapon against Roberts, while the liberals are free to say and do anything they want.
-PJ
Look at Chuck Schumer obstructing justice and intimidating judges.
“Have the Marshall service round him up and throw him in prison for threatening judges.”
The are people who have been vigorously prosecuted and sent to prison for saying things like Schumer did.
I would love for Schumer to not know what hit him.
“The left has Roberts by the short and curlies.”
The left has Roberts by the adoption papers.
What legal repercussions?
Democrats can’t commit crimes.
Someone in the media needs to really grill him on what “pay the price” means. It won’t happen, but it should.
Gee, the Chief Justice is standing up to a liberal to get
some conservative street cred, I wonder why.....
Lt, raise the sell-out threat level to Yellow
Good point. Roberts is giving the ole strong worded letter treatment to Schumer. We know where those go:
Right in the circular file.
Not just the words, but also the threatening tone he used when he said them. He is really such a creep
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