While appearing on Sunday’s edition of CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., issued a thinly veiled threat against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas if he fails to recuse himself from the Trump docket.
“Three of the sitting justices were appointed by Donald Trump and in addition to that, Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, Ginny, texted with Mark Meadows about the 2020 election in the lead-up to January 6th, as you well know. Should any of the justices recuse themselves if they take this up?” host Dana Bash asked.
Newsbusters‘ Jorge Bonilla posted a transcript of Raskin’s response:
U.S. REP. JAIME RASKIN (D-MD): Well, finally, the Supreme Court has developed what they’re describing as a code of ethics. It’s not binding in the sense that they’re not going to anyone else. They could have gone to for example, circuit court justices, you could’ve gone to state supreme court justices on a panel, but so they’re- they’re deciding for themselves, again, whether they’re in violation of their code of ethics. But I think anybody looking at this in any kind of dispassionate, reasonable way would say, if your wife was involved in the Big Lie, in claiming that Donald Trump had actually won the presidential election and had been agitating for that and participating in the events leading up to January 6th, that you shouldn’t be participating in–
BASH: So he should recuse himself?
RASKIN: He should- oh, he should absolutely recuse himself. The question is, what do we do if he doesn’t recuse himself.
If that’s not a threat, I don’t know what is.
Will this presidential election be the most important in American history?
Here’s video of the exchange, also provided by Newsbusters:
Bonilla reminds us this is the same kind of threatening language used by another Democrat — Sen. Chuck Schumer:
In which Chuck Schumer threatens TWO sitting Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. pic.twitter.com/pA3mryeVK2
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 4, 2020
Was Raskin’s rhetoric assassination prep? Some on Twitter/X thought so:
Democrats are now doing assassination prep on specific Supreme Court judges. https://t.co/2UlDbPO964
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 31, 2023
Chuck Schumer put a target on Justice Kavanaugh’s back prior to the Dobbs ruling and then someone tried to assassinate Kavanaugh
Now Jamie Raskin is putting a target on Justice Thomas’s back… https://t.co/4kNrFyx3H2
— John Hasson (@SonofHas) December 31, 2023
“What do we do if he doesn’t?”
Remember that the White House encouraged illegal intimidation of justices at their homes during the Dobbs decision after an assassination attempt on Kavanaugh https://t.co/dbSen53ya1
— Auron MacIntyre (@AuronMacintyre) December 31, 2023
At least Raskin is consistent in trying to stop people from voting for the guy he dislikes. He was a trailblazer last decade in trying to disqualify legal electors. https://t.co/ey5xG1sj2A
— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) December 31, 2023
Indeed. And there’s video:
Speaking of promoting a Big Lie™️and attacking democracy, here’s @RepRaskin trying to prevent certification of the 2016 election…he should probably recuse himself from this entire conversation. The only question is “what do we do if he doesn’t?” https://t.co/xh9gLUwpYi pic.twitter.com/JyJ4NMYb5T
— Brother Seamus (@WaynePelota) December 31, 2023
Keep in mind this is the same election-denying Jamie Raskin who called the Electoral College a “threat to democracy.”
Bonilla concludes:
We are repeatedly told that language matters. The left likes to frame uncomfortable speech as “violence”, while the media frames their actual violence as “fiery but mostly peaceful” protests. Dana Bash, with her intellectual incuriosity as to what Raskin may have meant with his “what do we do if he doesn’t recuse himself” here is no exception.
And it is important to clear that up. Perhaps Raskin is suggesting non-violent consequences for Justice Thomas’ refusal to recuse himself from the Trump docket. But as we saw from the shooting of the GOP congressional baseball practice, deranged individuals will infer a call to violence from such rhetoric.
At this point, reasonable individuals may conclude that Dobbs was a dry run, and that we are in the midst of a campaign to intimidate and influence conservative justices of the United States Supreme Court ahead of the various cases that will come before it.
Wake up, America. The Democrat Party is the greatest danger America faces today.
Related:
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- Liberal Pro-Abortion Terrorists Imply Threats Against Children Of Supreme Court Justices
- Trump: Schumer Must Pay ‘Severe Price’ For Threatening Supreme Court Justices
- ‘Put a bullet in his…skull’ — U.S. Marshalls investigating violent threats sent to Kavanaugh’s wife
- Liberal Terrorist Who Wanted To Murder Kavanaugh Wanted To Kill Three Supremes
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