This is why Schumer must resign. He's unapologetic and toxic as hell. He knows EXACTLY what he did and how he was hoping to intimidate Gorsuch and Kavanaugh with threats of violence. He was using a cruder version of the tactic pioneered by Barack Obama.
Schumer's "apology" or "clarification" is just a load of political tripe attacking the people who accurately quoted what he said and ordering his followers to believe his propaganda instead of their lying ears. Democrats need no more gaslighting.
Obama raised eyebrows in his day for bringing political pressure to bear against the Supreme Court. The justices pushed back against him for it in public: cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/…
Schumer is less subtle than Obama, and got carried away with the contempt-signaling passion that animates a good deal of the pro-abortion movement, which is more about expressing hatred for traditionalists, religious people, and conservatives than medical procedures.
Obama pressured SCOTUS to protect Obamacare. It wasn't subtle, and it might well have played a role in keeping Obamacare alive, but he wasn't as blatantly threatening as Schumer, and Obama didn't become as toxic in the course of saving his own political skin afterward.
Criticizing Court rulings is one thing, but intimidating and threatening the justices is another. Obama skated over that line. Schumer leaped over it with a pitchfork and a burning torch. Schumer has to go, for the health of the American system and his own party.
Schumer isn't some new wet-behind-the-ears radical nitwit who just won his first election. There is NOTHING ambiguous about what he said or who his words were directed at. He didn't misspeak or choose an unfortunate metaphor. He knew what he was doing. /end
