Chuck Schumer is Being Investigated

Do you remember when Chuck Schumer threatened the Supreme Court Justices around the time of the actions regarding Roe v. Wade? It was pretty ugly. The interim D.C. Attorney Edward R. Martin, Jr. has decided to take action against his threat:

. . . effectively launching an investigation into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer over comments he made back in March 2020 during a #MyRightMyDecision rally outside the Supreme Court. During the rally, Schumer blatantly threatened Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch over their potential votes in the first abortion case before the Supreme Court with the new conservative majority. ‘I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh: You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price,’ Schumer said to a chorus of cheers. ‘You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.’

Schumer later said that he could have made a better choice of words, but his intention was clear. And there are consequences for those kinds of threats:

According to 18 U.S. Code #115, whoever threatens a federal official, ‘with intent to impede, intimidate, or interfere with such official, judge, or law enforcement officer while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with intent to retaliate against such official, judge, or law enforcement officer on account of the performance of official duties, shall be punished’ by a fine or imprisonment of as much as ten years. Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, has been calling on Schumer to be federally prosecuted for years.

Martin didn’t just make a verbal threat, but wrote to Schumer about his behavior:

He also appeared determined to scrutinize the nation’s leading Democrat by sending what he called a ‘letter of inquiry’ to Schumer regarding his eventually retracted remarks at a March 2020 rally, in which he claimed that two of Trump’s recently appointed Supreme Court justices, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, would ‘pay the price’ if they ruled against Roe v. Wade. ‘We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation,’ Martin wrote Schumer in a Jan. 21 letter obtained by The Post.

Chuck Schumer had threatened President Trump in the past as well:

In 2017, during the early stages of the Russia investigation, he warned that President Donald Trump was making a mistake by challenging U.S. intelligence agencies. ‘Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,’ Schumer said in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

Life has been challenging for SCOTUS with the Democrats in charge. Dick Durbin has led an attack on the conservative justices on trumped-up ethics charges. And although the numbers are down, protestors are still marching by the homes of these justices. In December 2024, funds were appropriated to provide them with additional protection:

A sweeping stopgap funding measure unveiled by U.S. lawmakers has earmarked over $25 million to enhance security for the homes of the nine Supreme Court justices, addressing escalating threats against federal judges. Buried within a 1,547-page temporary funding bill aimed at preventing a government shutdown, the provision allocates $12 million to the U.S. Marshals Service and nearly $13.6 million directly to the Supreme Court to fortify residential protections. This move partially fulfills requests made earlier this year to transition security responsibilities to the court’s in-house police force.

Not only is Chuck Schumer being put on notice, but all of Congress had better understand that they are subject to the rule of law.

Threats on the President and the Supreme Court will not be tolerated.