Chief Justice Roberts issues rare statement rebuking Schumer for his Gorsuch/Kavanaugh comments. “Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous.”
Schumer spox: “For Justice Roberts to follow the right wing’s deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said, while remaining silent when President Trump attacked Justices Sotomayor and Ginsberg last week, shows Justice Roberts does not just call balls and strikes.”
Schumer initial comments: "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 you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Schumer spox says his comments were a reference to the “political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court,” and that justices will unleash a “major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights“ over ruling. cnn.com/2020/03/04/pol…
