President Joe Biden openly threatened the Supreme Court justices in attendance at his 2024 State of the Union address for upholding the Constitution with their 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision.
“With all due respect, justices, women are not without electoral, electoral power — excuse me — electoral or political power. You’re about to realize just how much you’re right about that,” Biden said during the “abortion for all” portion of his address.
Biden’s public threat to the “last functioning institution in America” is not the first time Democrats have tried to browbeat the highest court in the land and it most likely won’t be the last.
When an unnamed leaker prematurely released the court’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling in May 2022, Democrats all across the nation called for the violent destruction of the Supreme Court. Hundreds of pro-abortion activists, encouraged by the Biden White House, descended on Republican-nominated justices’ homes to intimidate and even assassinate them.
Yet, amid literal calls for an “open season” on pro-lifers and court justices, Attorney General Merrick Garland and his Department of Justice turned a blind eye to their political enemies’ pleas to arrest and prosecute. Training slides from a DOJ whistleblower suggest that U.S. Marshals were explicitly warned against arresting the mob even though they violated federal law.
The Dobbs public pressure campaign, a tactic that has worked on the chief justice before, followed threats from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer who swore in March of 2020 that Republican-nominated justices would “pay the price” for ruling against the left’s partisan goals “with these awful decisions.”
When they aren’t busy trying to pack the bench with partisans, Democrats like Schumer and Biden are amplifying a sham ethical crisis, drummed up by blue politicians in Congress and the corporate media, in an attempt to discredit the court.
Biden’s attempt at intimidation on Thursday night isn’t new. It’s merely a manifestation of his party’s years-long goal of destroying the judicial branch’s ruling body.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and co-producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on Twitter @jordanboydtx.
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