If we ever needed a pristine example of why justices are bestowed lifetime appointments and shielded from the vagaries of the electorate and the intimidation tactics of unethical politicians, Chuck Schumer has now provided us with one.
Schumer's thuggish attack on Kavanaugh and Gorsuch is a transparent attempt to intimidate justices.
Whatever the case, this is an unprecedented attack on Supreme Court justice.
Rather than walking back his statement, Schumer compounded the ugly behavior by smearing the chief justice as a partisan ideologue, as well.
"For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing's deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes," Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman said in a statement to USA Today.
First of all, is Schumer really arguing that being critical of justices is tantamount to threatening them? If that's the case, why, during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in 2010, did Schumer stand and clap for Obama's norm-breaking attack on the Supreme Court justices who had upheld the First Amendment in Citizens United? It seems clear that Obama was attempting to manipulate the court but at least he had the decency not to sound like some wannabe Mafioso.
By accusing Roberts of misrepresenting his comments for partisan reasons, Schumer is obviously trying to influence the chief justice, as well.
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2020/03/06/chuck-schumers-despicable-attack-on-the-supreme-court-n2563430
Schumer's thuggish attack on Kavanaugh and Gorsuch is a transparent attempt to intimidate justices.
Whatever the case, this is an unprecedented attack on Supreme Court justice.
Rather than walking back his statement, Schumer compounded the ugly behavior by smearing the chief justice as a partisan ideologue, as well.
"For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing's deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes," Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman said in a statement to USA Today.
First of all, is Schumer really arguing that being critical of justices is tantamount to threatening them? If that's the case, why, during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address in 2010, did Schumer stand and clap for Obama's norm-breaking attack on the Supreme Court justices who had upheld the First Amendment in Citizens United? It seems clear that Obama was attempting to manipulate the court but at least he had the decency not to sound like some wannabe Mafioso.
By accusing Roberts of misrepresenting his comments for partisan reasons, Schumer is obviously trying to influence the chief justice, as well.
https://townhall.com/columnists/davidharsanyi/2020/03/06/chuck-schumers-despicable-attack-on-the-supreme-court-n2563430
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