Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is now under investigation by Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin after he made threatening comments towards Supreme Court justices in 2020.
Schumer told Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorscuch that they will “pay a price” if they voted to overturn Roe V. Wade, while speaking on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2022, Roe V. Wade was overturned.
“Over the last three years, women’s reproductive rights have come under attack in a way we haven’t seen in modern history. From Louisiana, to Missouri, to Texas, Republican legislatures are waging a war on women, all women, and they’re taking away fundamental rights,” Schumer said at the time. “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.”
Announced by U.S. Homeland Security today:
Senator Chuck Schumer is now officially under investigation by the Department of Justice for making threats against conservative
U.S. Supreme Court Justices! pic.twitter.com/21OgZVtPnr— ❣️Anne❣️ (@USA_Anne711) February 1, 2025
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Schumer quickly walked his comments back while speaking from the Senate floor a few days later, stating that he was not threatening Supreme Court justices. In a non-apology, the top Senate Democrat stated that he “shouldn’t have used the words I did” while claiming that conservatives were attempting to “generate outrage” over his comments. He was later hit with an ethics complaint that went nowhere.
In a January 21 letter that was obtained by the Washington Post, interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin confirmed that he is opening a “preliminary inquiry” into Schumer’s threatening comments. “We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation,” Martin wrote in the letter, which was addressed to Schumer.
The nation’s top elected Democrat has a history of making ominous, threatening comments towards his political opponents. During the opening stages of the bogus Russian collusion investigation, Schumer stated that President Trump was “really dumb” for “taking on” U.S. intelligence agencies before suggesting that there would be retribution.
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you,” Schumer said during an appeared on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow. “So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.”
