[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 532 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 532

    Condemning and censuring the Senator from New York, Mr. Schumer.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 5, 2020

 Mr. Hawley (for himself, Mr. Daines, Mr. Braun, Mr. Scott of Florida, 
 Mr. Tillis, Mrs. Loeffler, Mr. Cramer, Mr. Sasse, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Lee, 
Mr. Cruz, Mr. Perdue, Mr. Scott of South Carolina, Mr. Inhofe, and Ms. 
McSally) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                       Select Committee on Ethics

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                               RESOLUTION


 
    Condemning and censuring the Senator from New York, Mr. Schumer.

Whereas the Senator from New York, Mr. Schumer, is the Leader of the Democratic 
        Caucus and a former member of the Committee on the Judiciary of the 
        Senate;
Whereas, at a protest at the Supreme Court of the United States on March 4, 
        2020, Senator Schumer inveighed against 2 Associate Justices of the 
        Supreme Court of the United States by saying, ``I want to tell you, 
        Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have release the whirlwind, 
        and you will pay the price.'';
Whereas Senator Schumer went on to warn Justice Gorsuch and Justice Kavanaugh, 
        ``You won't know what hit you if you go forward with these awful 
        decisions.'';
Whereas the statements of Senator Schumer are an attempt to unduly influence the 
        judicial decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States and to 
        undermine the vision of the founders of the United States of the 
        ``complete independence of the courts of justice'', as Alexander 
        Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 78;
Whereas the statements of Senator Schumer could be read to suggest a threat or 
        call for physical violence against 2 Associate Justices of the Supreme 
        Court of the United States;
Whereas the Chief Justice of the United States immediately rebuked Senator 
        Schumer, stating that ``threatening statements of this sort from the 
        highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are 
        dangerous'';
Whereas, according to the Institute for Economics and Peace, political violence 
        in the United States has increased over the last decade;
Whereas, in 2018, the United States Marshals Service investigated 4,542 threats 
        and inappropriate communications against the judiciary;
Whereas 4 Federal judges have been targeted and murdered since 1979 and 2 family 
        members of another Federal judge have been murdered; and
Whereas Senator Schumer has acknowledged that threatening statements can 
        increase the dangers of violence against government officials when he 
        stated on June 15, 2017, following the attempted murder of several 
        elected Members of Congress, ``We would all be wise to reflect on the 
        importance of civility in our [N]ation's politics'' and that ``the level 
        of nastiness, vitriol, and hate that has seeped into our politics must 
        be excised'': Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) censures and condemns in the strongest possible terms 
        the Senator from New York, Mr. Schumer, for his threatening 
        statements against Associate Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and 
        Associate Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh; and
            (2) calls on all members of the Senate to respect the 
        independence of the Federal judiciary.
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