Now is the time to stop this vitriol before it’s too late, before it impacts the way the Justices conduct business. It’s long past time to stop it in the Senate and the House and at the White House. It should never have shown up in any Supreme Court opinion. Let’s hope we don’t see it again.
Marc Hecht "The advanced state of ad hominem political attacks in the United States has spread to the Supreme Court’s own justices – at least from the outnumbered liberals there. The three dissenters from last Friday’s abortion case did more than offer their legal reasons for differing with the majority. They directly attacked the honesty and integrity of their fellow justices on the other side of the issue.
"Perhaps they consciously decided to follow the noxious lead of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (DNY), who threatened two of the justices on March 2nd this now-famous comment:
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 if you go forward with these awful decisions.
"Schumer yelled that threat into a bullhorn on the steps of the Court itself.
The country has grown accustomed to this kind of bullying and hyperbolic rhetoric from Schumer. But even more disturbing, at least to me, are the multiple personal attacks from Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan in their dissent in the abortion case. I don't think anything like what they wrote has ever appeared before in a Supreme Court decision.
"Below are four such attacks from the dissent that I copied, along with citations to where they appear [emphasis added by me]:. . .
. . ."Surprisingly, I didn't find any personal attacks directed at Justice Thomas in the dissent. It’s hard to know why. One possibility is that Breyer, Sotomayor and Kagan decided that Thomas was "hands-off" in terms of personal invective because Thomas is Black, opening them to the charge of racism.". . .
Is Schumer Culpable for the Death Threat Against Kavanaugh? – PJ Media
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