Leave Supreme Court Justices Alone
Regular listeners of The Kerry and Mike Show weekdays on AM-790 WNIS heard me say on the day of the Supreme Court leak that the conservative justices should immediately get their families into safe houses.
Especially Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh, who have young children.
We’ve seen this movie before, haven’t we? When radical leftists become unhinged, their knee-jerk reaction is to dox their adversaries and bully them by marching into their neighborhoods.
Apoplectic protestors screamed for hours outside Mitch McConnell’s house in Louisville, KY when the Senate held confirmation hearings for Justice Barrett in September 2020. McConnell’s home was vandalized in January 2021 by protesters upset that he was trying to limit the sums of Covid payments.
Mouth-breathing morons disturbed the peace in Tucker Carlson’s Washington DC neighborhood in November 2018, pounding on his door and screaming “We know where you sleep at night” with a megaphone. Carlson’s wife was home alone, feared for her safety, locked herself in a pantry and phoned 911.
Senator Ted Cruz’s Houston home is a magnet for loons, especially climate clowns. A handful of those were arrested in June of 2021 for refusing to take their picket signs and get off of his property.
It was just a matter of time until the mobs would cross a really dangerous line and head for the homes of U.S. Supreme Court Justices.
That happened this weekend.
The addresses of the six conservative justices - three in Maryland, three in Virginia - were spread on social media last week and abortion protesters were on their streets by the weekend.
Mother’s Day weekend.
I suppose the abortion enthusiasts didn’t see the irony of their timing.
This attempt to intimidate and influence the justices on the highest court is intolerable and puts the US on the road to a banana republic.
It needs to stop.
In Mexico, the threat to independent judges comes from drug cartels. In Poland, it comes from the president and parliament. And in the United States, it comes from voters…
“From Des Moines to Mexico City to Medellin to Krakow, the languages may be different, the procedures may be different, but the concerns are very much the same,” said Judge Richard Ginkowski, a municipal court judge in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin.
“Protecting the independence of judges and the judiciary is mission crucial for the ABA, in the United States and around the world,” said Laurence Pulgram, a San Francisco lawyer and co-chair of the ABA Committee on the American Judicial System. “Democracy depends on it…”
In the United States, Senate confirmation hearings of federal judges are a “very troubling assault on judicial independence,” said Texas Chief Justice Nathan Hecht. The hearings, Hecht said, have become personal attacks on the nominees. That undercuts public confidence in the judiciary, he added.
Then again, why wouldn’t protesters think that storming the streets outside of justices’ homes was fine when Jen Psaki, the president’s mouthpiece, shrugged her shoulders and said that people were simply “passionate” about abortion and the White House couldn’t control where people protest.
While agitators chanted in front of justices’ homes, Biden went golfing with his brother.
Too busy, apparently, to call off the goons.
