The Western Journal is reporting that New York Senator Chuck Schumer—the veteran anti-gunner whose Capitol Hill career dating back to his days in the U.S. House invariably gravitated toward increasingly restrictive gun control schemes—could be in trouble with the Justice Department.
Writing at the Western Journal, Ben Zeisloft, editor of the Republic Sentinel, says Schumer, Democrat minority leader in the Senate, has been sent a letter by Edward R. Martin, Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District Of Columbia, asking the senator about remarks he made five years ago at a media event in which he seemed to be threatening Supreme Court Associate Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch in relation to abortion rights cases.
On March 4, 2020, Schumer was filmed declaring, “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.” He was standing in front of a banner for the Center for Reproductive Rights.
In his letter, Martin wrote, “I respectfully request that you clarify your comments from March 4, 2020…We take threats against public officials very seriously. I look forward to your cooperation with my letter of inquiry after request.”
The Journal story appears at the same time another report about quick actions taken by newly-sworn Attorney General Pam Bondi. According to the Western Journal’s Samantha Chang, Bondi “issued a barrage of directives aimed at restoring the ‘integrity and credibility’ of the Department of Justice by eradicating the weaponization of the agency to target political opponents and push left-wing agendas.”
Long story short: With the return of Donald Trump to the White House, and the installation of a new attorney general, the day of reckoning for far-left politicians and bureaucrats could be on the horizon.
Whether this effort could reach out to state-level officials who used their positions—such as state attorneys general who launched politically-motivated legal actions against Trump early in his first term—remains to be seen. For starters, reporter Chang said Bondi’s directives “should send chills down the spines of the Democrats who engaged in the shameless political persecution of President Donald Trump and other conservatives” during the Biden administration. She specifically mentioned former Special Counsel Jack Smith, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and “prosecutors of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol Hill protesters.”
How could this possibly affect the nation’s gun owners and Second Amendment advocates? It might boil down to karma. For example, James is known for her legal actions against the National Rifle Association, which began back in 2019-2020.
In Schumer’s case, any troubles he might have over his remarks toward Gorsuch and Kavanaugh have nothing to do with his animosity towards gun rights, and that would be the beauty of it all, except that both high court justices are part of the conservative majority which has upheld the Second Amendment as protective of a fundamental, individual right.
In his Western Journal essay, Zeisloft made this ominous observation: “The fact that Trump prosecutors are digging up unhinged rhetoric from five years ago shows they mean business.”
During his first term, Trump vowed to “drain the swamp.” His efforts were bogged down by people who controlled the swamp, and who seemed to enjoy the past four years with “one of their own” in the Oval Office. But now Trump is back, and he’s brought aboard people in his administration who seem pretty keen about finishing the job he started eight years ago.
