While the rest of the world is focused on Iran, I wanted to run this one by Pennsylvania Senator Dave McCormick.
It's about this:
Watch the whole thing, if you can.
And now we turn to Dave.
On a number of topics (most notably, on the killings of Renee Goode and Alex Pretti), Sen McCormick has warned against "irresponsible rhetoric" leading to violence.
But he's very careful not to point in any one political direction. Readers can read into that what they wish - both in what how he avoids specificity and how I described it.
On the other hand, here's a few examples from last night, posted by CBS:
Our reporting found hundreds of threats were left on judges voicemails. This one after a judge ruled the president had violated the First Amendment:
Recording of threat: I hope your whole family and everybody you love is raped in front of you and has their heads cut off.
That president being Donald J Trump, of course.
And before anyone "both sides" this:
Judge Jones: The national rhetoric from both sides has probably gotten worse over time. However I would not concede that the Democratic party or or that Democratic office holders have conducted themselves in any way that's similar to what this is administration is doing with respect to the federal judiciary. There's simply no evidence of that.
Judge Jones (a retired federal judge from Pennsylvania and a George W. Bush appointee) also said:
In very plain English: if we're not careful we're gonna get a judge killed. It's just that stark.
So if Senator McCormick was sitting across from me right now, I'd ask him, plainly and starkly, if he'll denounce the irresponsible rhetoric coming out of the White House, rhetoric that is an obvious threat to the nation's judicial system.
What say you, Senator?
I'll be contacting the Senator's office with this in a minute or two.
If you feel so compelled, perhaps you can, too.