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If you may recall, Chuck Schumer once stood at a public microphone as the leader of the Senate and threatened two Supreme Court Justices.
Apparently, he won’t be paying any price for that dangerous stunt.
And one report is offering up a very interesting reason for the lack of follow-through from U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, who was recently appointed to the interim position by President Trump — immediately after he took the oath of office, actually.
Martin has been very vocal about his intention to investigate those who threaten government workers, including the DOGE team.
Duly noted
Threats against public officials at all levels – whether it be the president or a line federal worker – must stop. Our safe and beautiful capital city cannot be the home of such dangerous conduct from any side, at any time. We are on the case. https://t.co/4xYaXZ4cyz
— U.S. Attorney Ed Martin (@USAEdMartin) February 17, 2025
But for Schumer’s comments back in 2020 clearly threatening the Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh in an attempt to halt the impending overturning of Roe vs Wade…
No such justice has been forthcoming.
Here’s a clip of Schumer’s threats for a refresher:
In which Chuck Schumer threatens TWO sitting Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. pic.twitter.com/pA3mryeVK2
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 4, 2020
The video of Chuck Schumer’s threats came back into circulation online after a man was arrested outside Kavanaugh’s home.
In 2022 a man armed with an array of weapons and tools was stopped a block from Kavanaugh’s home.
He admitted he was there to kill Kavanaugh.
Man with weapon detained near Brett Kavanaugh’s home. He allegedly told police he wanted to kill the Supreme Court justice. https://t.co/lvfpCjMF5p
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) June 8, 2022
Deputy U.S. Marshalls actually spotted the man dressed in black as he stepped out of a cab in front of Kavanaugh’s home.
He saw the officers, and then called 911 on himself after walking down the street, according to an NBC News report at the time:
An armed man was arrested overnight near the home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after he called 911 on himself, law enforcement officials said Wednesday.
Officials say the man, identified as Nicholas John Roske, 26, was armed with a handgun, a knife, pepper spray and burglary tools. He was stopped a block from the justice’s house. And when police detained him, he said he was there to kill Kavanaugh, the officials said.
Deputy U.S. marshals spotted Roske — dressed in black and carrying a backpack and a suitcase — getting out of a cab in front of Kavanaugh’s house shortly after 1 a.m. ET Wednesday, according to a criminal complaint. Roske looked at the officers and then started walking down the street and called 911 on himself, the complaint said.
Officials said the man called 911 and said that he had homicidal thoughts, that he had traveled from California to attack the justice and that he had a gun in his suitcase. He said the gun was unloaded and in a locked case. Officials said the man is from Simi Valley.
He was still on the phone with 911 when police showed up to arrest him, the complaint said.
He is alleged to have told investigators that he’d decided to target Kavanaugh because he was angry about the possibility that the Supreme Court will overturn Roe v. Wade and about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. He said he thought Kavanaugh would loosen gun laws. Roske said he’d planned to kill the justice and then himself, the complaint said.
A search of his backpack and suitcase showed he was carrying a “black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazine and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crow bar, pistol light, duct tape” and other items.
Roske was charged in federal court in Maryland with attempting to murder a Supreme Court justice, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
Even after that incident, no charges were brought against Chuck Schumer.
In fact… there was never even more than a cursory glance by US Attorney’s, allegedly because DOJ higher-ups squashed any attempt to impanel a grand jury to look into Schumer’s threats.
Though by all accounts, Martin did open inquiries into Schumer’s public statements.
Letter of “inquiry” sent by Acting DC US Attorney Ed Martin ……he is investigating Schumer for his threats against SCOTUS Justices.
Remember when…….
pic.twitter.com/5cvxRpZRKW
— Spitfire (@DogRightGirl) February 1, 2025
In fact… there is a memo stating exactly that, according to CBS News:
Ed Martin, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, revealed he has opened inquiries into public statements of Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, according to an internal memo to federal prosecutors in Washington.
The inquiry will also review a public statement made by Rep. Robert Garcia, a second-term House Democrat from California, Garcia told CBS News.
The U.S. attorney’s memo, which was obtained by CBS News, alleges the public statements of Democratic legislators could constitute a threat to Supreme Court justices and the newly hired employees of the Trump administration’s new Department of Government Efficiency, the DOGE operation linked to the world’s richest man and close ally of President Trump, Elon Musk.
Mr. Trump appointed Martin to serve as acting U.S. attorney for D.C. hours after he was inaugurated last month. Martin, a one-time activist in the post-2020 election “stop the steal” movement, previously served as a defense attorney for some U.S. Capitol rioters. He posts on social media under the handle “Ed the Eagle.”
Martin’s memo to his new subordinates in the U.S. attorney’s office is titled “Operation Whirlwind” and said the office would prioritize investigations into threats against public officials. The memo alleged, “One of the most abhorrent examples was when Senator Charles Schumer led a rally to attack US Supreme Court justices.
Martin’s memo also cited an incident months later in which a man was arrested outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh, though Martin’s memo mistakenly claimed the incident happened in Washington, D.C., rather than in Maryland, and Martin’s jurisdiction is the District.
Martin’s memo alleged he reached out to Schumer “to investigate his threats. He has not responded to me.”
Two sources inside the Justice Department told CBS News Martin’s memo to staffers breaks from a Justice Department policy by declaratively and openly detailing a pending inquiry.
Here’s a copy of ONE OF THREE letters of inquiry that U.S. Attorney Martin sent to Chuck Schumer, with no response ever received:
And now, there are conflicting reports.
According to one reading of the “sources familiar with the situation”… Martin simply came to his senses, realized that Chuck Schumer wasn’t actually criminally negligent, and dropped the whole matter entirely.
That seems to be how most of the mainstream media is slanting the information — and quite honestly, it could be true.
But it doesn’t FEEL true, at least not to me.
It sounds to me, as several reports have hinted at, that Martin’s attempts to investigate Schumer’s threats was shut down prematurely by Deep State actors within the DOJ (or worse?).
And it sounds like the excuses being given that attempt to paint Martin as an overzealous political attack dog with little regard for the law, only concerned about his own version of lawfare against President Trump’s enemies… is laughable.
The Washington Post covered the story with exactly that slant, even portraying the lack of follow-up on Martin’s part being his own decision.
Which does not read comfortably, or truthfully, when you put all the pieces together.
Here’s the Washington Post’s take on it:
Interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has dropped plans to investigate the country’s most powerful elected Democrat over a statement he made about two conservative Supreme Court justices five years ago, concluding that a probe is unfounded, two people familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
Martin concluded that a quickly walked-back statement in March 2020 from Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (New York) — in which he said two of President Donald Trump’s recently nominated Supreme Court justices, Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh, would “pay the price” for a vote against abortion rights — fell short of a prosecutable “true threat,” said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter.
The barriers to building a case before a federal statute of limitations ran out Tuesday were many, experts said, and included First Amendment and other legal hurdles to an investigation including a Supreme Court precedent requiring that prosecutors prove a speaker’s “recklessness” or a “conscious disregard” of the dangers posed by a statement. The Justice Department last year also required that prosecutors in its Public Integrity Section be consulted before a grand jury investigation is opened into a member of Congress for conduct related to his or her public office, one of the people familiar with the matter said.
Both people said no grand jury investigation was opened, as first reported by the New York Times.
A spokeswoman for Schumer had no comment. Spokesmen for the Justice Department and Martin’s office declined to comment.
Legal analysts said Schumer’s quick retraction, the passage of time, and U.S. case law surrounding threats, free speech and congressional immunity made any prosecution by Martin’s office implausible in the seven weeks he had available.
Pursuing Schumer would have required testing novel arguments and consumed months, an ineffective start to Martin’s initiative, said one person close to the office. Martin decided last week at the recommendation of legal authorities inside and outside his office, according to the person.
The move followed Martin’s repeated pledges since taking office to protect billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk and government workers with his U.S. DOGE Service against threats.
“If people are discovered to have broken the law or even acted simply unethically, we will investigate them,” Martin assured Musk in a Feb. 7 letter he posted on social media, adding “we will chase them to the end of the Earth to hold them accountable.”
That sounds like a very slanted version of the truth, if you ask me.
Oddly enough, the truth might have shown through in the New York Times reporting of the situation.
Check out this short excerpt from Monday, just one day before the statute of limitations ran out on anything Schumer would have been charged with relating to his threats.
I see the truth shining through in this New York Times excerpt:
Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, has been quietly pushing to present evidence against Senator Charles Schumer of New York, the Democratic leader, to a federal grand jury over comments he made about Supreme Court justices in 2020, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Justice Department officials have thus far rebuffed the unusual request by Mr. Martin, a partisan ally of President Trump with no previous prosecutorial experience, one of those people said.
The five-year time limit for prosecuting Mr. Schumer under the most likely charges that might stem from any inquiry expires on Tuesday.
That doesn’t sound like U.S. Attorney Martin simply gave up the hunt.
It sounds more like… the DOJ “rebuffed” him, because they didn’t like where he was going with his investigation.
It’s also very coincidental, if you ask me, that all this came out right as the statute of limitations ran dry on Tuesday of this week.
Martin is demanding records, emails, and notes tied to felony obstruction charges.
This could be the beginning of a massive shake-up. Accountability is… pic.twitter.com/k9NKwX0Rjy
— Hank
JUST ANNOUNCED: Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is officially reviewing the DOJ’s handling of Jan. 6 cases
(@HANKonX) Back in January when that post was made… I would have agreed.
And I still DO agree; accountability IS coming.
But if there’s one thing we’ve learned over the first few weeks of President Trump’s record-setting swamp draining extravaganza…
It’s that you can’t drain a swamp overnight, no matter how prepared you are.
There are dark corners inside dark federal agencies with dark forces still at work, actively protecting those working against accountability.
And it will take some time before enough of those dark corners are flooded by the light of day, and brought to a reckoning.
Unfortunately, it looks like a few of those from the regimes that have gone before are going to slip through the cracks, and will largely escape that reckoning.
But there is also the possibility that some within the DOJ are not as “on board” as many of us would have thought, to begin with.
Speaking of — we’re still waiting on those files, Ms. Bondi, and the patience of the American people is wearing thin.
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.