Senator Chuck Schumer’s threats against Justices Kavanaugh and Gorsuch on the steps of the Supreme Court yesterday were clearly meant to be physical intimidation. His spokesman now claims Schumer’s warning that the named justices would “pay a price,” “reap the whirlwind,” and “not know what hit them,” was referring to political backlash. But members of the nation’s highest court are, by design, insulated from political backlash. They aren’t elected. They can’t be kicked out of office for issuing an unpopular opinion. So if he wasn’t referring to a political price – and he couldn’t have been – then we must ask ourselves: what other sort of price can a public figure be made to pay by an enraged mob? It’s not hard to connect the dots. Schumer was attempting to intimidate sitting Supreme Court justices, to make them feel physically unsafe, so that they would decide a case how he prefers. That is not only disgraceful but illegal, and he should be arrested and charged.
The rest of the abortion enthusiasts rallying in D.C. have not behaved much better. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) launched into one of her patented spittle-flecked rants, shouting that pro-lifers “shouldn’t want to have sex” with her. On that point, I expect broad bipartisan support. A woman who calls herself “the Beyonce of abortion storytelling” (which presumably means she lip-syncs her speeches) bragged about having killed her child, and encouraged the crowd to applaud all women who’ve had abortions. She was rather explicitly celebrating abortion, even as pro-aborts claim that nobody celebrates abortion. This is what we’ve come to expect from that side. They do and say things while insisting that nobody does or says the very things they are currently doing and saying.
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