President Donald Trump has fired back at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over remarks he made about Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch on Wednesday.
Trump was responding to Schumer’s remarks at a rally outside the high court while a high-profile abortion case was being argued inside.
‘You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,’ Schumer said, naming the two Trump appointees, according to video of the rally available online.
‘It’s a disgrace that he was able to say that,’ Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday evening. ‘That was a terrible thing he said — I was amazed by it.’
President Donald Trump has fired back at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer over remarks he made about Supreme Court Justices
‘You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You will not know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,’ Schumer said at this rally
The abortion case in front of the Supreme Court is the first to be heard since Donald Trump appointed Neil Gorsuch (left) and Brett Kavanaugh (right) as justices
Trump said that Schumer had delivered his remarks to a ‘on the streets in front of a rough crowd’ and that if a Republican had said something similar they would ‘see very bad things happen.’
Earlier, Trump tweeted: ‘This is a direct & dangerous threat to the U.S. Supreme Court by Schumer. If a Republican did this, he or she would be arrested, or impeached. Serious action MUST be taken NOW!’
‘There can be few things worse in a civilized, law abiding nation, than a United States Senator openly, and for all to see and hear, threatening the Supreme Court or its Justices. This is what Chuck Schumer just did. He must pay a severe price for this!’ Trump tweeted.
The justices are currently weighing a Louisiana law requiring doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
A federal judge found that just one of Louisiana’s three abortion clinics would remain open if the law is allowed to take effect.
Chief Justice John Roberts, who in 2018 rebuked Trump for the president’s criticism of an ‘Obama judge,’ had jumped to his colleagues’ defense after Schumer’s remarks.
‘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 in a statement.
‘It’s a disgrace that he was able to say that,’ Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity (above) on Wednesday evening. ‘That was a terrible thing he said’
In a statement, Schumer spokesman Justin Goodman criticized Roberts, saying that ‘to follow the right wing´s deliberate misinterpretation of what Sen. Schumer said’ shows the chief justice ‘does not just call balls and strikes.’
Goodman said Schumer’s comments ‘were a reference to the political price Senate Republicans will pay for putting these justices on the court, and a warning that the justices will unleash a major grassroots movement on the issue of reproductive rights against the decision.’
He noted that the chief justice remained quiet in recent weeks when Trump questioned the impartiality of Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.
In the Hannity interview, Trump also addressed the Democratic presidential primary, saying that he blamed Senator Elizabeth Warren for Senator Bernie Sanders’ relatively poor showing on Super Tuesday.
Trump also addressed the Democratic presidential primary, saying that he blamed Senator Elizabeth Warren (above) for siphoning votes from Senator Bernie Sanders
‘Bernie Sanders, if he were able to convince Elizabeth Warren to endorse him or even to drop out, he would have won a lot of the states last night,’ Trump said.
Trump said that if he faces Joe Biden in the general election, he will make Biden’s son Hunter and his dealings in Ukraine a major issue.
The president was impeached, and later acquitted, for pushing Ukraine to investigate the Biden family’s alleged corruption in the country, where Hunter Biden held a lucrative board seat on a gas company.
‘That will be a major issue in the campaign, I will bring that up all the time because i don’t see any way out,’ Trump said. ‘I don’t believe they’ll be able to answer those questions, that was purely corrupt.’