Threatening Supreme Court Justices Is Never OK
Real Clear Politics,
by
Adriana Cohen
Original Article
Posted By: Moritz55,
3/6/2020 2:57:34 PM
Congress must censure Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for threatening two Supreme Court justices outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday. This should be wholly bipartisan and utterly uncontroversial. No American, no less a high-ranking member of Congress like Schumer, should be permitted to threaten government officials or judges. This type of thuggish behavior displayed by the senior U.S. senator has no place in a civilized society and must be condemned by all.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Gallo3 3/6/2020 3:11:30 PM (No. 338762)
Impeach now!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Avanti1 3/6/2020 3:27:10 PM (No. 338774)
Schumer's comments were an affront to the Separation of Powers enshrined in the Constitution. He should know that.
At a minimum, Schumer must be censured. Better yet he should face ethics charges which would result in his removal from any leadership position in the Senate, including Minority Leader or Committee Chair.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/6/2020 3:37:08 PM (No. 338784)
It sounded like he was issuing an order for anyone within the sound of his voice to attack the Justices wherever and whenever. But hey, he's a democrat. Untouchable under any law. Nothing will happen to him of any consequence.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 3/6/2020 3:46:16 PM (No. 338787)
18 U.S. Code § 401. Power of court
A court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, or both, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as—
(1) Misbehavior of any person in its presence or so near thereto as to obstruct the administration of justice;
(2) Misbehavior of any of its officers in their official transactions;
(3) Disobedience or resistance to its lawful writ, process, order, rule, decree, or command.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 701; Pub. L. 107–273, div. B, title III, § 3002(a)(1), Nov. 2, 2002, 116 Stat. 1805.)
NY SUN: This is a moment, in our view, for the Supreme Court to clobber the senator with Title 18 of the United States Code, section 401. Title 18 is the part of our federal law that deals with criminal matters, and section 401 grants courts the power to punish contempt. The Nine could move against the senator sua sponte, meaning on the court’s own motion, by issuing a heavy fine, say, or seizing his law license, or worse.
Could the court really do that? We’re no lawyer, just a newspaper with a flask of newsblack and whiskey in one hand and a pen in the other. Yet the plain language of Section 401 says that “a court of the United States shall have power to punish by fine or imprisonment, or both, at its discretion, such contempt of its authority, and none other, as . . .” Then it lists the contempts that would open an individual to sanctions.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Condor44 3/6/2020 3:52:18 PM (No. 338791)
This has got to be the scariest thing I have ever heard coming out of a dems mouth. Threatining Supreme Court justices? What was he thinking? He is acting like Maduro in Venezuela.
He shouldn't just be censured, he should be thrown out!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Venturer 3/6/2020 4:17:51 PM (No. 338796)
This Adrianna Cohen who authored this has to be kidding.
A Bi-partisan censure of a Democrat Senator .
Not a snowball's chance in Hades.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
or gate 3/6/2020 4:27:20 PM (No. 338800)
Our criminals are really getting brave in the swamp.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Krause 3/6/2020 4:31:23 PM (No. 338804)
Schumer is a non-thinking hothead, at best.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 3/6/2020 4:44:20 PM (No. 338811)
Well, I might be pretty brave, too, if there were absolutely NO repercussions EVER for anything I did wrong.
This is getting to be down right scary! Either these fools in DC need to be held accountable, or we're done here!
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He should be disbarred (he's Harvard Law) at a minimum.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mrclose 3/6/2020 5:25:57 PM (No. 338839)
For this .. You and I would go to jail!
Criminal Threats
A criminal threat involves one person threatening someone else with physical harm.
Criminal threats are made with the intention to place someone in fear of injury or death.
It isn't necessary for a victim to experience fear or terror.
It is the intention of the person making the threat that matters.
The intent of a person who makes threats is usually determined by the circumstances surrounding the case.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 3/6/2020 6:12:15 PM (No. 338876)
The corruption and the expectation of further and greater corruption has made the LEFT lazy.
Even freaking Academia fears and outlaws open debate. Media & Hollywood (Same-Same) serve as the 'Amen Corner' where dissenters become deniers and then dangerous heretics who must be shunned and starved. Picture Ted Cruz vs. Bernie or Joe in a traditional / formal / honest debate.
Debate Rule #1--- The first person to start ranting or yelling or going 'ad hom'........looses.
What happened to those days?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 3/6/2020 6:30:20 PM (No. 338885)
Every member of the Senate will vote to censure except for all Dems and Collins, Murkowski and Mittens.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/6/2020 6:53:12 PM (No. 338912)
Schumer is not a Democratic minority leader, he's the democrat minority leader. There's nothing democratic about Schumer or his political party!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
901AtTheRiver 3/6/2020 6:55:15 PM (No. 338915)
Justices Gorsuch and Cavanaugh have been confronted with contempt and malice as well as a call to action by any unhinged individual or group of radicals that may be out there willing and able to do physical harm. I encourage them to file an action under 18 USC Paragraph 404.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 3/6/2020 8:34:47 PM (No. 338974)
Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is just as dysfunctional and to the same degree as is former Vice President Biden. Both are badly decompensating. There is probably no medical or psychiatric course of action for either of them. And both of them have been hatefully mean.
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