Democrats Wanted To Intimidate Justices. Now It’s Getting Dangerous
Supreme Court,Crime,Domestic Extremism,Partisanship,Roe V Wade Leak,Chuck Schumer,Brett Kavanaugh
"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.”
Those were the words of the Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, one of the most powerful elected officials in the nation, in March of 2020. After spending years cynically delegitimizing the high court, Schumer had moved to openly threatening life-time appointed judges, by name, because he feared they would knock down the concocted constitutional right to an abortion.
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