“HE SHOULD BE EXPELLED”
by Joseph DeMaio, ©2020
Yesterday, Schumer stood with a group of pro-abortion protesters in front of the Supreme Court building – ahem, not inside the Capitol on the floor of the Senate, thereby forfeiting his otherwise “Speech and Debate Clause” constitutional immunity – and publicly threatened Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. He belched: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price…,” adding that if they voted to uphold a Louisiana law which could limit third-party abortion mills’ ability to sue on behalf of women seeking abortions, then “[y]ou won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
“You won’t know what hit you?” Seriously? A brick? A boulder? A bullet? That invective cannot go unpunished. If it does, then the Republic needs to be re-named the “Deep States of America.”
18 U.S.C. § 351(a) deals with, among other crimes, assaults upon Justices of the Supreme Court. Specifically, 18 U.S.C. § 351(e) provides: “Whoever assaults any person designated in subsection (a) of this section [i.e., Supreme Court Justices included] shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both; and if the assault involved the use of a dangerous weapon, or personal injury results, shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.”
In addition, 18 U.S.C. § 115(a)(1) states, in material part: “(a)(1) Whoever- (A) assaults…, or threatens to assault… a United States judge…,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 as provided in subsection (b).” The punishments include similar fines and imprisonment.
Finally, 18 U.S.C. § 111 includes within its definition of “assault” and provides for the punishment of anyone who, among other things, “impedes, intimidates, or interferes with any person designated in section 1114 of this title [i.e., Supreme Court Justices included] while engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties….”
This is open and shut. If Schumer does not resign from the Senate by sundown today, he should be expelled. And whether or not he resigns or is expelled, because he forfeited his “Speech and Debate Clause” immunity from arrest and prosecution by launching his tirade on the steps of the Supreme Court Building, Attorney General Barr should seek an indictment against him for the crimes he has committed under the federal criminal code. To be fair, though, he should be accorded a trial.
Memo to faithful P&E readers: if Barr eventually holds a press conference and states that, after careful review of all of the facts, he has concluded – taking a cue from disgraced FBI Director James Comey that “no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges” against Schumer – get set for a Tweetstorm from the Oval Office the likes of which you have never seen.
Memo # 2 to P&E readers: once more, this latest outrage by the leader of the Democrats in the U.S. Senate only further confirms that they have forfeited any claim of right or competence to govern a free people in a constitutional republic like ours. They must be voted out of office in November. All of them.
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