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After angry public reaction to the leaked Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito draft opinion on reversing Roe v. Wade, Justice Clarence Thomas said: “We are becoming addicted to wanting particular outcomes, not living with the outcomes we don’t like. We can’t be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want. The events from earlier this week are a symptom of that.”
The kind of events to which Thomas referred includes pro-abortion activists blocking church entrances and protesting at the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Alito.
It is difficult to determine when this generation of Americans on the Left decided to attack rather than persuade those who disagree. But an inflection point occurred when, for the first time in history, the Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, not because of ethics or lack of character, but because Democrats opposed his judicial philosophy.
President Ronald Reagan nominated to U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Justice Robert Bork, who represented — to Democrats like Sen. Ted Kennedy — a threat to move the Supreme Court to the right on issues like abortion and affirmative action. Kennedy viciously attacked. On the Senate floor, Kennedy described “Robert Bork’s America” as “a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue police could break down citizens’ doors in midnight raids, schoolchildren could not be taught about evolution, writers and artists could be censored at the whim of the government, and the doors of the federal courts would be shut on the fingers of millions of citizens.”
Two years ago, at a pro-abortion rights rally in front of the Supreme Court, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., shouted: “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”
Following this, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement: “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.”
Two years earlier, Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., at a rally, called for the public harassment of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members. Waters shouted: “If you see anybody from that (Trump) Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd and you push back on them, and you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.”
President Joe Biden, who once backed an amendment to overturn Roe v. Wade, recently slammed its possible reversal: “What are the next things that are going to be attacked? Because this MAGA crowd is really the most extreme political organization that’s existed in American history — in recent American history.”
Even The New York Times executive editor Dean Baquet criticized the intolerance of the supposedly tolerant Left. In 2017, Baquet said: “I don’t understand how one can actually have an intellectual discourse in this country if you cannot have the opportunity to read thoughtful people with whom you disagree. We’re at a moment in the country right now which I think, you know, the left should do some soul searching too, right? … We don’t want to hear anything — we’ve long said this about this about the Right … but the Left as a rule does not want to hear thoughtful disagreement.”
I am pro-life. I oppose abortion. I live in California, where voters opposed abortion restriction propositions for parental notification and for waiting periods. As a federalist who believes that issues like abortion are properly left to the states, I see my role as a citizen, pundit and a person of faith to persuade, not threaten. There was a time when people on the Left felt this way, too.
Larry Elder is a bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio talk show host. His latest book, “The New Trump Standard,” is available in paperback from Amazon.com and for Nook, Kindle, iBooks and Google Play. To find out more about Larry Elder, or become an “Elderado,” visit www.LarryElder.com. Follow Larry on Twitter @LarryElder.
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What? Sleepy Brandon said one thing and did another? We better have the minister of disinformation fact check it!
The left is full of activists and the right is asleep allowing whatever the left does. Our conservative politicians should all be holding rallies at capitals all over the country. Unfortunately we have a uni-party that is beholden to China.
The comments from such as Schumer and Waters, and other democrats, merely reenforces the notion that they are more concerned with power, control and their own welfare than that of the country they supposedly serve!!
They serve forces that want to destroy our country read, “Red-Handed.”
Great article Larry. But trying to sway judges and juries has been going on for some time, starting way back in the South with any trials involving Blacks, or in the old West to hang Indians and outlaws. We have been a nation of revenge. Moving to this century and this decade- whether it was Chauvin’s trial, Rittenhouse’s trial, or any police involved death of a colored person, they have been doxxing and threatening for their preferred outcome.
And most of those on the right have laid down and let the commucrats trample them.
They hate us and wish harm or even death to us and our way of life.
Time to stand up. Push back. Denigrate. Resist. Sabotage.
dont blame it on this country, it has been going on since the dawn of time. there have always been those who think they are of a “superior intellect” than EVERYBODY ELSE, ie. george soros and his “god like” mentality, larry fink(appropriately named) says corporations should be able to “force behaviors of ordinary people”, etc.
when our founders pledged their lives and fortunes to the revolution, they did not proceed to takeover power for their personal gain, they gave this country to the citizens to govern themselves! If you look at what communists, totalitarians(whatever you want to call them) have done historically, look at lenin, stalin, hitler, mao, castro, chavez, etc. they all TOOK POWER IN ORDER TO INCREASE THEIR OWN POWER AND WEALTH! Many of their offspring have “inherited” huge wealth. I believe chavez’ daughter is the richest person in venezuela; the ortegas are rich beyond compare in NICARAGUA!!!! I could go on and on but USEFUL IDIOTS dont get it.