Boston Herald

Court should be protesting Biden and Schumer

- Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachuse­tts political reporter and columnist.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts ought to lead a protest march to the U.S. Capitol and call out Sen. Charles Schumer on the abortion issue.

There, outside the U.S. Senate, Roberts could threaten Schumer the way Schumer threatened members of the high court in March 2020 as it began deliberati­ons on the Mississipp­i abortion statute.

Heading a pro abortion protest rally outside the court, Schumer worked up the crowd by saying, “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.”

Schumer is of the progressiv­e opinion that the nine-member court should be packed to the point that Democrats control it.

Now that protestors of the leaked majority draft abortion opinion, stirred up by Schumer, have invaded the neighborho­ods of several of the justices and are demonstrat­ing

outside of their homes — it may be time for the justices to take action.

Roberts and his supporters, all dressed in black judicial robes, could demonstrat­e outside the Senate. Roberts, like Schumer before him, could point to the Capitol and shout:

“I want to tell you Schumer, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with theses awful decisions.”

Of course, nothing like this would ever happen. The Supreme Court has too much dignity to sink to Schumer’s partisan level, which is pretty low.

Despite the thrashing of the court — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu calls the majority justices “a fringe group” over the pending decision on abortion — the Supreme Court is the last government institutio­n with any credibilit­y and dignity left.

Everything else has been politicize­d. The progressiv­es would politicize the court as well, if it could, by stacking it with justices who would rule not on the law, but on the politics of the law.

The country is in trouble. The job is too big for Joe Biden. While promising to unite the country, Biden divided it. Instead of becoming president of all the people, he became president of the Democrat Party and the progressiv­es who now run it.

The country under Biden is in disarray and disorder. He has done more damage to the country than any president in history.

He opened his presidency by shutting down the Keystone XL pipeline and declaring war on fossil fuel. Now gas is approachin­g

$5 a gallon and diesel even more. He poured billions in printed pandemic relief money into the economy and brought us soaring inflation.

He looks on as rampant, unchecked crime in the cities, thanks to Democrat defunding and bail reform, is turning the country into a third world nation.

He opened the southern border to millions of illegal immigrants, as well as to criminals, fentanyl trafficker­s and human smugglers. He is spending billions on green energy and electric cars to save the planet when he cannot even provide mothers with baby formula.

It is good that he is providing funds to the brave Ukrainians fighting off Vladimir Putin’s foolhardy invasion. However, it is an invasion that Putin would not have gambled on had not Biden showed such weakness and incompeten­ce with his reckless and embarrassi­ng withdrawal from Afghanista­n.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would be holding a press conference in Moscow by now had Biden provided Ukraine with the billions in sophistica­ted military equipment that he abandoned in Afghanista­n.

Joe Biden has released the whirlwind on the American people.

 ?? AP FILE ?? HARD LINE: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stands with Bay State U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, speaking, and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., outside the Capitol during a rally for student loan forgivenes­s. Schumer has been a harsh critic of the Supreme Court’s stance on reproducti­ve rights.
AP FILE HARD LINE: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer stands with Bay State U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, speaking, and U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., outside the Capitol during a rally for student loan forgivenes­s. Schumer has been a harsh critic of the Supreme Court’s stance on reproducti­ve rights.
 ?? AP FILE ?? LIGHTNING ROD: Chief Justice John Roberts arrives at the House of Representa­tives before the State of the Union address by President Biden on March 1.
AP FILE LIGHTNING ROD: Chief Justice John Roberts arrives at the House of Representa­tives before the State of the Union address by President Biden on March 1.
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