Seeing this almost broke my heart today.
Edit: Much of his speech was cut, so I found his speech in writing and some of the reactions of VIPs.
Sen. Chuck Schumer’s Supreme Court tirade is a symptom of America’s democratic decline.
www.vox.com
The Schumer quote that triggered Roberts’s reply is this: “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.”
“Gorsuch” and “Kavanaugh,” of course, refer to Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh — President Trump’s two appointees to the Supreme Court, whose confirmations were opposed by nearly all Senate Democrats.
By the end of Wednesday, even nonpartisan leaders such as American Bar Association president Judy Perry Martinez joined the pile-on with a statement saying that the ABA is “
deeply troubled” by Schumer’s remarks.
Roberts, for his part, interpreted this statement as a direct threat against Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, and it’s easy to see why. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory,” the chief justice said in
his statement rebuking Schumer. “But threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are
not only inappropriate, they are dangerous.”