Simply put?
No responsible Member of Congress should be so careless with his or her public platform that they use rhetoric capable of inciting violence. (RELATED: Now We Know What ‘Maximum Warfare, Everywhere, All the Time’ Means)
Which is exactly what House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has been doing. With not one but three assassination attempts made on President Trump.
And, as noted over there in the HuffPost:
In June 2022, a man was arrested near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home with an assortment of weapons after authorities said he called a local emergency communications center and expressed an intent to kill Kavanaugh. Legislators subsequently ramped up a campaign to provide more security for the court’s nine justices, authorizing an initial security boost in 2022.
Most recently, the Democrat House Leader was out there calling for “maximum warfare” against Trump in the ongoing redistricting battles that are taking place as routine this election year. He also went out of his way to characterize the Supreme Court as “illegitimate” for a decision that narrowed parts of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Jeffries went on to say that: “It’s an unacceptable decision. This isn’t even really the Roberts Court. It’s the Trump Court. This is a scheme to suppress the vote and rig the Midterm elections and beyond.”
So what does the House have on its hands? A member — the Minority Leader no less — who is accusing the Supreme Court of “a scheme to suppress the vote and rig the Midterm elections and beyond.” And they wonder what inspires a crazy guy to plot the assassination of a Supreme Court Justice? Or launch an assassination attempt not just on the president but on a good bit of the Washington establishment at the once-peaceful annual White House Correspondents Dinner? (RELATED: Bullet Points and Blind Spots)
Not to mention those earlier attacks on the President in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a prevented attack at his own Mar-a-Lago golf course.
Jeffries’ comments came in the wake of a disclosure in 2022 from the Department of Homeland Security, reported here by Newsweek as follows:
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning of an increase in threats of violence, including against Supreme Court Justices, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, according to a new report.
On Wednesday, NBC News obtained a DHS memo on threats if the nation’s highest court goes through with overturning Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that guaranteed the right for women to get an abortion nationwide. The memo said: “Some of these threats discussed burning down or storming the U.S. Supreme Court and murdering Justices and their clerks, members of Congress, and lawful demonstrators.”
The bottom line here is that House Minority Leader Jeffries has been out there with rhetoric that all too easily can be used to stir violence with attacks against not only the president but the Supreme Court and others in Washington as well.
Jeffries has shown not the slightest indication of either apologizing for his rhetoric or stopping it.
So the House should step forward and make it crystal clear that Jeffries rhetoric is not acceptable.
It’s time for the House to censure House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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