Karl Rove goes off on Juan Williams over threat to Kavanaugh’s life: ‘It’s open season on judges!’

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In a discussion that turned quickly into a heated debate about the man that was arrested near Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home last week, Fox News analysts Juan Williams and Karl Rove exchanged verbal blows over the extent to which protesters have the right to protest.

Asked about the dichotomy between the response to the threat to Kavanaugh’s life and a theoretical Trump supporter going crazy outside the home of a liberal justice, Rove brings up the current lackluster interpretation of the statute that prohibits protests “with the intent of influencing any judge.”

“We either ought to apply the law, or we ought to just simply say it’s open season on judges!” Rove said on Fox News Sunday.

“I think you have a right to protest,” Williams responded.

“But not in front of their house!” Rove exclaimed.

“You have a right to protest anywhere in America,” Williams shot back. “Now clearly, these people should not be violent, and they shouldn’t threaten. But the idea that they’re influencing … I don’t think it’s about the influence. I think it’s about a Supreme Court that’s become radical, and extremist, and activist, and is going to put out a decision that’s going to — believe me — polarize this country. Undo 50 years of law!”

Rove unleashed his fury over the lack of enforcement of the statute that is encouraging continued protests outside of the justice’s home which some have described as “one of the scariest things” ever witnessed.

“So because you disagree with a prospective decision, you think people have a right to show up in front of a house and try and intimidate a judge to change their mind?” Rove asked.

“No,” Williams responded.

“How about any case in America? Would you defend everybody’s right to go in front of every judge and say. ‘My God, if you decide one way or the other, you deserve me protesting in front of your house!’ Forget it! That’s intimidation!” Rove argued.

After exchanging several more verbal volleys, the pair brought the heated debate to a close.

“I think everyone at this table has had people demonstrate, or come to their door, and it’s unsettling,” Williams reiterated. “No one’s defending it. But the right to protest is essential to America.”

“But not in front of their house!” Rove said forcefully.

But Williams continued to disagree noting, “I’m just telling you, in politics, that’s a reality.”

“It’s not a good reality,” Rove concluded.

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48 thoughts on “Karl Rove goes off on Juan Williams over threat to Kavanaugh’s life: ‘It’s open season on judges!’

  1. Isn’t it humorous how dims don’t believe the 2nd Amendment is absolute, yet somehow the right to protest, even if you’re burning, looting and assaulting, is?

  2. MEMO to Rove-“When you argue with a fool all you have is two fools arguing” Enough said!

  3. This is nothing but harassment, and anybody who has ever suffered harassment, recognizes it when they see it. My family has, and believe you me, it’s not funny. I wonder if Juan ever thinks about what these people’s actions are having on Kavanaugh’s children, or since it ls all about abortion, I suppose they think the Kavanaughs shouldn’t have had any of those either. THIS IS HARASSMENT, trying to SWAY a judicial decisio, nothing more, yet no consideration to the HARASSMENT they are doing. THERE IS A LAW, AND I WONDER WHY GARLAND ISN’T ENFORCING IT. POLITICS HAS TO BE THE REASON, I WONDER IF THIS SENIOR CITIZEN ADMINISTRATION EVEN REMEMBERS THAT THEY TOOK THEIR OATHS. BTW. it took a year to get our harassers in court.

  4. Juan Williams is a delusional punk, that basically spouts liberal rhetoric spin every time he opens his useless mouth. At this point I neither see or understand why FOX keeps him employed, unless it’s a simply a contractual thing. He’s not liked by any viewers and brings no reasonable arguments or solutions to the table.

  5. I suppose Juan would have a different take if there were protests outside of his home. Why do any networks still put him on TV?

  6. Williams is uninformed, as usual. I loved hearing Rove tear him apart or his foolish and ignorant comments.

  7. No – it is only open season on Republicans and Conservatives. It is like we live in the former Soviet Union and getting worse every day-and the Great Silent majority just bends over and grabs their ankles and does Nothing.

  8. If the supreme court decides to end the ROE decision, then Abortion Decisions Return To The States.
    Liberal states will still allow those who wish to murder unborn children up until birth to do so \\.

    Conservative states will still have limits on when abortion can take place. If one lives in a state where the abortion limits are not to their liking and wish to get an abortion then they can travel to a liberal state and get one.

    PROBLEM SOLVED so all the WOMEN and Men out protesting sit down and SHUT UP.

    ABORTION IS NOT ENDING and the WORLD ISN’T ENDING EITHER!

    The way these crazies out screaming about abortion with stupid signs and costumes act you’d think it is. Rest easy. You all can still kill your children anytime you want no matter what the Supreme Court ruling turns out to be.

  9. Juan Williams and frito bandito, Geraldo Rivera, are birds of a feather! I can remember a time when they were a little more reasonable, but in today’s political environment, they have moved entirely over to the extremist side. And whenever I see either of them come on a screen, I immediately mute or change the channel. 😠

  10. Williams is a leftist apologist that doesn’t respect the rule of law along with the entire lib establishment. Change the argument to one of moral superiority, which the left simply doesn’t have, then anything goes. Basically if you don’t get your way anything you do including murdering opponents is fair game. We refer to this as civil war and they love that idea.

  11. I believe we need to have a couple of liberal justices threatened. Perhaps Sotomayor and Ketanji-Jackson, you would see protections for SCOTUS judges put in.place very quickly.

  12. Juan who? Federal law says it is illegal to protest in front of a judge’s home. Anyone who argues against that should be arrested for inciting violence against a judge. Period
    FJB

  13. JW has always been an a hole, but unlike wine, he gets worse with age. I wonder how he’d react if a few dozen people showed up at his house screaming “F*** JW! It would be an interesting experiment for anyone who knows where the jackass lives. FJW!

  14. Sorry, Juan, but people DON’T have a right to protest anywhere in America…. The law is crystal clear on that.

    However, Juan Williams, you have lost ALL credibility as a reporter over the past 5 years. You have proven to be little more than a partisan hack, a tool, for the progressive left.

  15. The Left in this Nation is like a bad combination of Mao Tse Tung and the 3 Stooges. At least the 3 Stooges were acting. The lying and idiocy both run very deep in the “Democrat” party.

  16. Racist Juan, represents BLACKS and shows how STUPID they are as a RACE. Sad, after what..300 YEARS, they still can not become civilized as all other RACES have.

  17. Juan was born with a permanent pucker for Democrats, right or wrong. He toes the DNC line come hell or high water. A waste of space!

  18. JW is simply wrong and cant read the law without his slant

    the law is clear and Rove is right

  19. To me it is simple. Enforce the law or repeal the law. Having the law unforced (all of the time) on the books allows this corrupt DOJ to pick the opportunity to enforce the law against conservatives. Witness today’s arrests in Idaho. Supposed white nationalists were arrested. Yet there are very few arrests of antifa and BLM arsonists and looters.

  20. Juan and Geraldo should hold hands and jump off of a cliff.

    The world would be a better place.

  21. Karl Rove and Juan Williams, Two despicable peas in the same Globalist PROPAGANDA Pod. Choose between the snake or the scorpion, both will betray you and leave you dead in their wake.

  22. So lets bring the bigger protests to liberal judges homes… They deserve the exact same treatment. This is why conservatives lose. No guts to counter the crazy.

  23. What is Juan’s address?
    What isNancy’s address?
    What is Schumers address?
    etc.,

  24. Two halfwits arguing over rent a mob’s causing mayhem. Were I a judge their actions would solidify my vote, when they come to my neighborhood and disrupt things.

  25. Juan Williams would have a different tune to sing if the protests were in front of a leftist judge. Then he’d start characterizing the “protests” as violent and threatening and criminal. Rove should have just said, you’re right. They should protest in front of the leftists justices’ homes. But they won’t, will they Juan? Will they? Of course not, because only leftists are allowed to break laws.

    1. All the Democrat congress and media would be screaming their heads off about ‘insurrectionists, Deplorables, ULTRA MAGA, White Supremacists,…. if the shoe was on the other foot. The media would blast non stop about a person threatening LIBERAL Judges at their home. It would be dealt with immediately and then discussed non stop on the dem loving networks.

  26. I wear out my mute button every time Juan shows up. Can’t FOX find a better
    liberal? The guy nauseates me.

  27. It is hard to believe Williams is a contributor to Fox. I thought Fox had more class than that. Williams has no idea about the law and is too stupid to realize that!!

  28. Time to start protesting in front of his house…just to let him know we don’t agree with him and he should change his tune!

  29. Jesse Watters: “I’m Watters, and this is my world”.

    Juan Williams: “I’m idiot, and this is my village”.

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