How to condemn and not condemn an attempt on the life of a SCOTUS justice
I was curious what the White House or Joe Biden had to say about the attempt on Kavanaugh’s life. All I could find was this:
White House deputy press secretary Andrew Bates said in a statement provided to Fox News that the president condemns the alleged actions of the suspect and “is grateful to law enforcement for quickly taking him into custody”.
“As the president has consistently made clear, public officials – including judges – must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety or that of their families,” according to the statement. “And any violence, threats of violence, or attempts to intimidate justices have no place in our society.”
The president supports legislation to fund increased security for the Supreme Court and justices, the statement said.
So the deputy press secretary sends a written statement to news agencies (I’m going to assume not just Fox) with some boilerplate blah-blah. Does anyone actually read this except for someone searching for it as I did? And it took a while to find it, I might add.
On the other hand, Biden appeared on Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show last night, a venue that has a pretty wide audience. Here’s what Biden actually said:
President Biden in an interview broadcast late Wednesday predicted a “mini revolution” in November’s midterm elections if the Supreme Court overturns the landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which enshrined abortion access as a constitutional right.
During the interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Biden said overturning the court precedent would be “ridiculous” and would motivate turnout in November’s elections.
“I don’t think the country will stand for it,” Biden said. “If in fact the decision comes down the way it does, and these states impose the limitations they’re talking about, it’s going to cause a mini revolution and they’re going to vote these folks out of office.”
Now, he does define this revolution as a revolution in voting that will sweep Republicans out of office, not a violent one. But the rest of the rhetoric is stronger that that. The country “won’t stand for it.” Such a decision would be “ridiculous” – says the noted jurist Joe Biden.
That appearance would have been a golden opportunity to address the assassination attempt and to condemn it. It was an opportunity Joe didn’t take, however. Nor did he say that whatever SCOTUS eventually decides needs to be respected. Nope; he said it would be “ridiculous” if SCOTUS overturned Roe and that the country wouldn’t stand for it.
I can’t find a word from Kamala Harris – remember her? – on the Kavanaugh assassination attempt, either. She certainly did her bit in the past to assassinate his character, however:
Focusing on her support for abortion and position on the Senate Judiciary Committee that handled the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, Harris strongly opposed Kavanaugh’s nomination within moments of it being announced, and long before she had a chance to review his record.
She joined other Democratic presidential hopefuls on the steps of the Supreme Court the next day to further express her opposition. She ran 3,600 different advertisements on Facebook before the second round of hearings began in late September 2018.
“Her performance during the Kavanaugh circus stood out as particularly demagogic, cynical & abysmal,” wrote TownHall political editor Guy Benson.
Within a few seconds of the first hearings being gaveled to order, Harris interrupted the proceedings in an attempt to shut them down on procedural grounds, part of a coordinated attack that included attempts by hundreds of compensated activists to get arrested.
Harris, a former prosecutor, led a line of questioning that was an obvious attempt to put Kavanaugh in a perjury trap, albeit a trap he was able to avoid. Harris began by asking Kavanaugh if he had ever discussed Robert Mueller, the special counsel then investigating the Trump presidential campaign, with anyone.
Read the whole thing; it’s quite interesting.
And what of Schumer, he of previous “released the whirlwind” threats, naming Kavanaugh and Gorsuch specifically? Crickets, as far as I can tell.
A trip down memory lane:
FLASHBACK: Democrat Senator Chuck Schumer threatened U.S. Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett 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!"pic.twitter.com/e1qKzocJDj
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) June 8, 2022
“. . . you will pay the price . . .” Schumer said.
Schumer omits to his shame that “the price” is not limited to the individual Justices themselves but extends to their children and wives as well. So stands the Democrat party.
Such a decision would be “ridiculous” – says the noted Catholic jurist Joe Biden.
The Pope said Biden “is a good Catholic”, when the US President made a visit in Rome (for a Climate Chane meeting, escorted by more than 80 SUVs); the problem is that Bergoglio is an ignoble Pope.
i think the phrase that applies is sippenshaft, communal punishment, remember their cries over the shooting of the freedom caucus, crickets, even when it was revealed the staff of two senators were in contact with the shooter, but that had nothing to do with ‘democracy in darkness’ only the new york post put in on the front page, the times had it page A 20 next to the MACY’s ad,
This stuff is why I’ve come around to the ideas of a civil war and national separation are not crazy. For either of those things, you’d need competing groups of elites and the Left are so narcissistic that they’re practically demanding the development of a counter-elite.
I mean, Republicans and conservatives have never really been members of The Club but at least they used to be allowed on the grounds to look around or do menial jobs. But the Left is making is making it pretty clear the Right is basically facing a Soylent Green moment.
Mike
Biden and Schumer: A cockroach duet.
Cockroaches don’t like to be out in plain sight.
Brandon and Chuck make cockroaches look clean and virtuous.
Is a mini-revolution like Vlad’s small incursion or the minor hike in gas prices or the lesser abundance of infant formula? Brandon didn’t say the last two. Not
yet.
notably norma desmond* said the protection of justices was not on her radar,
enormous double standard, NYT reports it on page 20, the usual.
Crap, they don’t even pretend any more. But I guess we have to point it out, for the record.
I’m seeing a number of clips of that Kimmel Live show. It struck me that the back and forth between Biden and Kimmel was a little too clever and too coordinated. Specifically, the Monopoly board game references and the bit about Executive Orders.
What are the odds that the whole thing was scripted or that Joe’s people got Kimmel’s interview notes beforehand? I think Hillary got caught acquiring or demanding interview notes beforehand once.
I don’t hold that hope, Mike. The vast majority of the GOP is happy to be controlled opposition s long as they get their piece of the pie.
Though short sighted, in that it ignores the predictable unintended consequences, it is entirely in the interest of the Democrat Party for two non-leftist justices to be assassinated before 2024.
Two because it would provide redundancy. Non-leftist because arguably, the only fully conservative SC justices are Thomas and Alito.
MBunge,
In the event of a civil war, we would not need a competing group of elites. When ordered to put down the ‘rebellion’, we would need the troops both in the Military and Deep State to tell their upper echelons to go pound sand. If that eventuated, the rebellion would be decisively brief and relatively non-violent. If the troops were to “follow orders” it would be horrific.
Marisa,
Anyone in the GOP who imagines that once the Left has sufficient power, it will allow them to have any piece of the pie is a fool and whose foolishness extends from moral cowardice.
Brown v. Board of Education was NOT wrongly decided. Problems have come from the continued busing edicts, not from the principle that de jure racially segregated public schools are inherently unequal.
I have black neighbors in my upper-middle-class Southern neighborhood whose children are doing fine academically. Their parents insist they do their schoolwork, as do all the other parents in the neighborhood.
Separate but equal never works in practice. I saw this in my hometown sports recreation program. The park “across the tracks” never looked as nice nor was as nicely equipped. And when the girls’ programs started up, they had nothing but a backstop for years, while the boys continued to play on well groomed and fenced fields. All of this was a decade or more after Brown.
Oh, there were good intentions. But stuff just was allowed to slide by because it was easier.
Heres the thing it was decided based on sociological evidence rather than statutes because even john marshall harlans dissent wasnt strong enough, a whole host of cases followed weaker rationals like baker griswaold and roe.
The result was 70 years overdo but the path to get their diverted the law hence roe obergefell sibelius
“Vipers” all the way down.
And here’s the next brick in the wall that the Democratic Party is assiduously building to Keep “Deplorables” OUT:
“Republican Candidate for Michigan Governor Arrested by FBI on J6 Charges—Conveniently for Democrats”—
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/06/09/breaking-republican-candidate-for-michigan-governor-arrested-by-fbi-on-j6-charges-conveniently-for-democrats-n1604435
+ Bonus (a corrupt media complicit in spreading unmitigated hatred, which goes by the name “UNITY”):
“…Biden Glitched so Badly During His Interview That Jimmy Kimmel Had to Cut to a Commercial”—
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2022/06/09/watch-biden-glitched-so-badly-during-his-interview-that-jimmy-kimmel-had-to-cut-to-a-commercial-n1604347
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/kevindowneyjr/2022/06/09/breaking-republican-candidate-for-michigan-governor-arrested-by-fbi-on-j6-charges-conveniently-for-democrats-n1604435