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SCOTUS Justices Testify on $228M Budget, Rising Threats

Is Trump fueling violence against judges or is the left's threats against the bench the real understated danger?

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SCOTUS Justices Testify on $228M Budget, Rising Threats

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Above: Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett prepare to testify on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on July 14. Image credit: Kent Nishimura/AFP/Getty Images

The Spin

Democratic narrative

Trump's relentless attacks on judges as "lunatics" and "monsters" have created a direct pipeline to real-world violence — 400 federal judges faced serious threats last year, a 78% jump in four years. Judges are getting bomb threats, death threats and fake murder reports called to their homes. Demonizing the courts is a deliberate strategy to delegitimize the one institution standing between executive overreach and the Constitution.

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Kevin Roberts on Brennan Center for Justice

Republican narrative

The left's political violence against judges gets buried while media clutch pearls over harsh words. A man flew across the country armed to assassinate three Supreme Court justices — and a Biden-appointed judge handed him barely eight years. Chuck Schumer stood outside the Supreme Court threatening Kavanaugh and Gorsuch by name, and paid zero price. Lenient sentences and selective outrage only guarantee more violence against the bench.

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