Louis Gossett Jr
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Junebug will defend, unless it’s liberal judges then junebug won’t defend.
Out of context? Here’s the statement:
"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.”
I don't know about inciting violence, but Schumer's statement was clearly addressed directly at the SCOTUS justices and not at Senate Pubs or Republicans et. al. as his office later tried to claim. Senators should not be using that kind of language to directly attack justices by name. However Trump did much the same thing in his earlier attack on RBG and Sotomayor and if Roberts wants to be the umpire of inflammatory political speech he needs to call a consistent strike zone. If anything, the level of tolerance about attacking the judiciary ought to be smaller for the President than for the leader of the minority party in the Senate.
sorry, if you take a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, you should be allowed to be criticized for your decisions
Well, there's a difference between criticizing a judge's legal reasoning and saying that judge will "pay the price" and "won't know what hit" them. Further there is a difference between criticizing a judge's legal reasoning and claiming that the judge is irreversibly biased toward the President because they are Mexican, or because they've been critical of the administration in past decisions.
Out of context? Here’s the statement:
"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.”
Inciting violence against =\= criticize
As I stated, Schumer’s statement could reasonably interpreted to incite violence, whether that was his intent or not.
How do you hit a SCOTUS justice without hitting a SCOTUS justice?
You sure you want to make RJ’s lexicon the standard for political discourse there sport?
what sort of violence would Schumer be calling for anyway?
God I hate Brett Kavanaugh so much. What a disgrace.
How do you hit a SCOTUS justice without hitting a SCOTUS justice?
Asking for a friend
How do you hit a SCOTUS justice without hitting a SCOTUS justice?
Asking for a friend