Posted on 02/01/2025 11:27:51 PM PST by Red Badger
The Department of Justice has opened an investigation into Chuck Schumer for threatening Supreme Court justices.
According to The Washington Post, interim D.C. U.S. attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. is looking to scrutinize Democratic leaders and former Justice Department officials.
Among them is the Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer in connection with comments regarding Trump’s Supreme Court justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
During a pro-abortion rally back in 2020, Schumer said that the two justices would “pay the price” for overturning Roe vs Wade, a decision that they eventually handed down two years later.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,” Schumer said at the time.
”You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
“We take threats against public officials very seriously,” Martin wrote Schumer in a letter on January 21st. “I look forward to your cooperation.”
Schumer never apologized for these remarks, despite a very public rebuke by 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,” Roberts said in a rare public statement.
“I should not have used the words I used yesterday,” Schumer said at the time. They didn’t come out the way I intended to.”
“I’m from Brooklyn. We speak in strong language. I shouldn’t have used the words I did, but in no way was I making a threat.”
Last month, Schumer complained that Kamala Harris lost the presidential election because Americans did not understand all the wonderful things Democrats and the Biden administration had done for them.
“So we did a lot of good things, but all too often we talked about the mechanics of the legislation and the details of the legislation and we really didn’t show the kind of empathy and concern to average working families who didn’t realize how much we had done,” Schumer in an interview with NBC.
I doubt anything will come of it.
Schumer will just say he was speaking euphemistically................
Good idea.
It was blatant threat of violence.
...and he doesn’t know how to grill a cheeseburger!..............
he’s as dirty as they get
He was calling for an insurrection.
BOHICA! Chuckie and say ouch! Beotch.
Schumer appears to have incited an actual assassination attempt.
RE: He was calling for an insurrection.
Agree.
In conspiracy with Hakeem Jeffries who just called for fighting the GOP “in the streets.”
Threatened violence.
Get the cuffs ready for both.
I had a gut level dislike for Ted Kennedy and Tip O’Neil. I got drilled and partied the nights each went to their rewards. I gotta special party planned for each night when Chuckie and Nancy go. It won’t last as long and I won’t need as much beer but I will party if I out live them. Regards
“I’m from Brooklyn. We speak in strong language. I shouldn’t have used the words I did, but in no way was I making a threat.”
I was in the military and spoke in a strong language too.
I meant everything I said!
At least I’m honest
Chucky is a liar!
BTTT
Stupid statements can come back on you six ways from Sunday, eh Schmuckey? lol
I suspect there is more to this than just the public threats. Did Schumer have communications with, say, the New York Underworld to ‘do him some favors’ for example?
Unfortunately, there is only one way to find out, and that is to subpoena all of his phone, email, text and other data and review them. Would suck for Schumer if other wrongdoings are found - such as how he got so wealthy in that job.
Yeah. It would truly suck. /s
As much as Schummer complains about Trump having immunity, he also has total immunity if he made those comments in Congress.
Any senator or representative has complete immunity, the constitution gives them a license to lie.
It doesn’t get any worse than that. No immunity, and that even adds to the severity of the criminal charges he faces.
No one is above the law. Raid his house and lawyer’s office.
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