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Democrats Threaten “Popular Revolt” Against Supreme Court

Commentary by Joe Saunders

It seems like only yesterday that Democrats and the establishment media didn’t like “insurrectionists.” But when Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy appeared on “Meet the Press” and openly declared a branch of government established by the Constitution to be “illegitimate” and predicted a “popular revolt” if Democrats don’t get their way, it was the latest, but most flagrant, in a long line of Democratic attacks on the Supreme Court.

Murphy made the comments in response to an obviously sympathetic prompting from NBC’s Chuck Todd about Democratic plans for pursuing gun control laws in the face of a Supreme Court majority that thinks the Constitution means what it says when it comes to guaranteeing American rights.

But there’s a bigger problem than the logistics of a deliberately disarmed “army” staging a popular revolt. What Murphy is doing here is worse than anything that had to do with the “insurrection” Democrats accused Donald Trump’s supporters of staging during the Capitol incursion of 2021.

This is a sitting senator calling the Supreme Court “already pretty illegitimate.” For a senator to brand the court “pretty illegitimate” because it has a conservative majority at the moment is the equivalent of a Supreme Court justice calling the Senate “pretty illegitimate” because it has a Democratic majority at the moment.

An actual journalist following the conversation might have taken an interest in that kind of thing. But since this is Chuck Todd, a man whose interview technique when it comes to Democrats is made up of offering up Democratic talking-point questions and swallowing the spoon-fed answers whole, the obvious questions go unraised.

Now Murphy has dropped the veil entirely. His Democratic Party isn’t interested in resolving constitutional questions; it’s interested in power. And the extent to which it considers the court “legitimate” is entirely based on how submissive the judicial branch of government is.

Twitter Reacts

• “Insurrectionist senator issues veiled threat against Supreme Court.” – J Michael Waller
• “Chris Murphy once again referring to the Judicial Branch of the US Government as ‘illegitimate.’ This rhetoric is dangerous, serving only to sow further division and incite violence when the Court’s legal rulings don’t agree with his personal opinion.” – Michael Grant
• “Sen. Murphy should be teaching people how the Constitution works rather than predicting a ‘revolt’. The Constitution protects peoples rights, it doesn’t negate them and the Supreme Court upholds the Constitution, it doesn’t chip away at it. Want change? Amend the Constitution.” – The Golden Sledgehammer

The goal for conservatives in 2024 — no matter who the Republican presidential nominee is — is making the rest of Americans understand it, too.