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Recently, a California man seeking to murder Justice Brett Kavanaugh was found hiding outside the judge's home with a pistol, a knife, and an array of tactical gear. After being taken into custody, the man claimed he was planning to assassinate the justice in response to the recently leaked opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization. This near-tragedy is a predictable endpoint of Democrats yearslong campaign to undermine the independence of the court through fear, coercion, and intimidation.

For several years, Democrats have threatened both individual justices and the court as a whole. In March 2020, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sought to stir up a mob against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh ahead of the decision in another abortion-related case, saying, I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You wont know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions. The would-be assassin took Schumers words to heart.

Since the May leak of the Dobbs opinion, Democrats have become even more reckless. Liberal groups published the home addresses of conservative justices online and encouraged protesters to gather there. Washington Democrats didnt even feign concern: Then-White House press secretary Jen Psaki refused to condemn this dangerous behavior, expressing sympathy for those who were targeting justices residences and saying that she [didnt] have an official U.S. government position on where people protest. It was a new low for the White House: They plainly refused to speak out against protests that sought to interrupt the work of another branch of government.

In response to rapidly multiplying threats after the Dobbs leak, the Senate quickly passed a bill authorizing additional security for Supreme Court justices. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) refused to move on it the bill has sat on her desk for over a month. Her motive is clear: She is supportive of Democrats who tried to exert pressure on Supreme Court justices in the hopes that one of them would change their vote in Dobbs. She gleefully encouraged the tactics of intimidation and fear that culminated in the assassination attempt against Justice Kavanaugh. Even after the killers plot was foiled, she claimed that Supreme Court justices were safe and not under threat. A credible threat against the life of a justice evidently was not cause for Speaker Pelosis alarm.

Encouraging threats against individual justices is just one front in the Democrats yearslong pressure campaign against the court. They are willing to blow up the Supreme Court as we know it to ensure that it will not stand in the way of their radical agenda. Many Democrats have come out in favor of court-packing, seeking to expand the number of seats on the Supreme Court so that Democrats are able to appoint a majority of justices. President Joe Biden, notably, has refused to come out against such an idea and appointed a presidential commission to study such a proposal. And the Dobbs leak itself, presumably intended to ignite liberal outrage and pressure conservative justices not to overturn Roe, is a brazen attack on the courts institutional norms. The Democrats goal is clear: Do whatever is necessary to ensure that the court will not stop its constitutionally dubious schemes.

Take all of these together individual threats against justices, a refusal to provide additional security resources for them, talk of court-packing, and the Dobbsleak itself and it becomes clear that Democrats are engaged in a systematic campaign to bend the court to their will. An independent and strong Supreme Court plays a vital role in our constitutional system of government. It is the protector of our constitutional rights and a bulwark for liberty. Attacks on the court are attacks on the very foundations of our nation. It is deeply disappointing, if not surprising, that Democrats have gone to great lengths to sully such a venerable institution. Perhaps Wednesdays attack will chasten Democrats who have taken part in this un-American behavior. But I wont be holding my breath.

Harmeet Dhillon became the RNC committeewoman from California in 2016. Prior to that, she was the vice chairman of the California Republican Party and chairman of the San Francisco Republican Party.

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