Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer will attend a rally outside the Supreme Court in support of President Biden’s executive order on student-loan forgiveness:
New: @SenSchumer, @ewarren, @MaxwellFrostFL, @AyannaPressley, @IlhanMN, @BobMenendezNJ and @RepJayapal will attend a rally outside SCOTUS on the first day of arguments on Biden’s student loans relief plan next Tuesday, per an advisory.
— Akayla Gardner (@gardnerakayla) February 23, 2023
A reminder of how things went when Schumer protested on the steps of the Supreme Court in 2020:
In March 2020, on the day that the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of a Louisiana law regulating abortion facilities, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer appeared at a pro-abortion-rights rally on the steps of the Court where he threatened Justice Neil Gorsuch and Justice Brett Kavanaugh by name.
“I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price!” Schumer shouted. “You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions!”
Schumer’s decision to target Gorsuch and Kavanaugh by name was so reckless that Chief Justice John Roberts took the unusual step of issuing a statement publicly rebuking a political leader. “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,” Roberts said at the time.
After Roberts called Schumer’s remarks “dangerous,” Schumer said in a Senate floor speech: “I should not have used the words I used yesterday. They didn’t come out the way I intended to.”