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Former acting associate attorney general Jesse Panuccio testified during the hearing, and when Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) tried to land a cheap shot, things backfired in spectacular fashion.
With maximum theatrical concern, Klobuchar scolded Trump’s rhetoric: “President Trump’s attacks on these judges has made for some major, major risks for these judges.” She followed up with a smug question: “Not in a partisan way, just normal, as a partner in a law firm, would you ever — have you ever taken to social media to personally attack a judge who ruled against you?”
Panuccio didn’t miss a beat. “Senator, thanks for the question,” he began. “I think that attacking judges personally, and not their reasoning, well, let me just give you a quote: ‘I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price —’”
Realizing the trap, Klobuchar tried to interrupt. But Panuccio didn’t let her off the hook.
“‘You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with those awful decisions.’ That was something that Sen. Schumer said,” he added. “I thought it was awful, and it unleashed a wave of violent threats against Supreme Court Justices. I do think that’s problematic, that kind of language.”
That “whirlwind” quote, in case Democrats want to pretend they forgot, came from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer in 2020 during a pro-abortion rally, where he essentially threatened Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh.
And here’s where the irony hits home: on the very same day and in the very same city as this hearing, a man pleaded guilty to an attempted assassination plot against Justice Kavanaugh — a man who very much tried to bring that “whirlwind” to life.
Faced with this hard truth, Klobuchar could only offer a weak cop-out: “I have no doubt the language is a problem on the left or right.”
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But that’s just the usual false equivalency.
Let’s not forget: it was Barack Obama who kicked off this dangerous trend back in 2010, when he used his State of the Union speech to publicly scold the Supreme Court over their Citizens United ruling. At the time, it was considered a stunning breach of decorum. Now it’s practically Democrat tradition.
Since then, Democrats have nuked the judicial filibuster, tried to sabotage Trump’s court picks with unfounded smears, and targeted conservative justices with religious and ethical attacks that would never fly if the roles were reversed.
They built this climate of hostility, and now they want to play the victim when the blowback reaches their doorstep.
Jesse Panuccio remembered that history. Senator Klobuchar clearly didn’t — or just hoped you wouldn’t.
Either way, the hypocrisy couldn’t be more obvious.
