Subcommittee Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks as Federal Aviation Administration Acting Administrator Daniel Elwell, National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Robert Sumwalt, and Department of Transportation Inspector General Calvin Scovel appear before a Senate Transportation subcommittee hearing on commercial airline safety, on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, March 27, 2019, in Washington. Two recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, in Ethiopia and Indonesia, which killed nearly 350 people, have lead to the temporary grounding of models of the aircraft and to increased scrutiny of the FAA’s delegation of a number of aspects of the certification process to the aircraft manufacturers themselves. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
When even MSNBC’s Chris Hayes gets that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) threatened Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and can’t defend it, you know that Schumer is busted.
Initially, Hayes seemed to toe the line that Schumer was somehow just quoting Kavanaugh. Except that Kavanaugh’s comments were in no way a threat to anyone. Indeed, Kavanaugh’s comments were about the politicization that Democrats had let loose which he felt compromised and threatened the process and was harmful to America.
I don’t think Schumer should have used the language he did, but clearly this is what he was referencing.https://t.co/Jg3IAXL1kf
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 4, 2020
But Hayes then apparently saw the light.
Having watched the Schumer clipa few times, it really was out of line! Not just for norms reasons (though I think those matter) but also because idle threats are dumb and expose impotence. Also the intelligence community stuff was weird and bad too.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 5, 2020
Amazingly, Hayes even appears to be calling out Schumer’s prior remarks where he seems to warn/threaten that the intelligence community would/could go after President Donald Trump if he dared criticize them: “You take on the IC, they have 6 ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
That’s pretty darn astonishing, as Ted Cruz pointed out with one word in highlighting Hayes’ comments.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 5, 2020
Cruz blasted Schumer directly.
WATCH this: Disgraceful political attack on the Supreme Court & the rule of law. This attempt at judicial intimidation is not OK. @SenSchumer should be ashamed. He should retract. And he should apologize. https://t.co/SFvr1Q1y8m
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 5, 2020
He also pointed out other liberals who called out Schumer.
.@tribelaw is exactly right. (!!) The attempt by @SenSchumer at judicial intimidation—a threat of political retaliation, or worse—is wrong & profoundly dangerous. Politics are one thing; trying to politicize & destroy the Supreme Court is altogether different. https://t.co/pcRz5FnnKA
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 5, 2020
Man bites dog. https://t.co/dr88WoQqbt
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) March 5, 2020
Nice job, Ted. This cannot be countenanced and Schumer should not be allowed to spin this away.
Enough with Democrats encouraging harassment of anyone they feel doesn’t toe their line. This isn’t the first threat they’ve directed at the Court or at Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. They are trying to intimidate them and it should not be permitted.
HT: Twitchy
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