Less than one year ago, Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York led a mob on the steps of the Supreme Court while a case was being heard and tried to thwart the natural deliberation of justices by violently threatening two of them to rule in favor of his and other Democrats' preferred outcome.
"I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions," Schumer threatened the two most recently confirmed justices, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
The threat was so alarming that even leftist activists such as Laurence Tribe condemned it. Schumer received a rare, same-day rebuke from Chief Justice John Roberts, who said, "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..."
While speaking to pro-abortion protesters in front of the Supreme Court, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer threatened two sitting justices.
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He threatened two U.S. Supreme Court justices. He threatened the Supreme Court. He assembled a mob on the stairs of a Supreme Court that tried to break into the Supreme Court, but for that 13-foot bronze door there. And he warns those justices that they are, in fact, in for hell if they don't vote the way he wants. He threatened the Supreme Court.
Now for the rest of the story.
Schumer said the following day that he “should not have used the words I used” and that he was referencing “political consequences for President Trump and Senate Republicans if the Supreme Court, with the newly confirmed justices, stripped away a woman’s right to choose.” “But in no way was I making a threat. I never, never would do such a thing,” he added.
I found it threatening . But I never had a boss a day in my life so I think quite differently.
You found it threatening. Well lock Schumer up. An internet fool felt threatened.
Nobody died, no damage was done. No mob stormed the Supreme Court. No police officers were attacked.
This is why we need to elect hundreds of people in the congress like Greene. They will impeach. While you are impeaching they will be impeaching. We finally in enough numbers know your infantile tricks.
Where is running the country to the benefit of the people in all of this tribalism and idiocy? Where is good governance?
Republicans have proven over and over again that they are incapable of doing anything other than running the economy into the ditch. Cutting taxes and running up the deficit has been a recipe for fiscal disaster and that's all Republicans have.
Over the years, Republicans have abandoned everything they claimed to hold dear: small government, balanced budgets, sound environment practices, and sensible regulation, embracing the same kind of hyper-capitalism promoted by Milton Friedman, that destroyed the economies of so many South American nations in the 70's right on through to the 90's.
But history has shown us that hyper-capitalism inflates prices, suppresses wages, increases poverty, leaving the poor more vulnerable to the financial swings of a destabilized capitalist economy. And that the ONLY way to maintain these policies which punish the poor and reward the wealthy, all protest against government policies must be brutally suppressed.
Pinochet rounded up all of the lawyers, university professors, union leaders, and left wing leaders and shot them. In Argentina, 30,000 people were "disappeared". In Brazil, a right wing military dictatorship, stiffled free speech, legally banned all opposition, and tortured dissidents.
This is exactly where the Republican Party is headed. They cannot win elections, because they have no platform, no ideas that work, and no agenda other than white nationalism, and cutting taxes for the wealthy. Now, Republicans tried to stage a coup to overthrown the democratically elected government of the United States.
The Republican Party has become the party of white nationalism, authoritarianism, propaganda, and conspiracy theories. Time to burn it down, and get a REAL conservative opposition to the Democrats. Authoritarianism and/or white supremacy are the antithesis of a constitutional republic.