The Elitist Media are still irate about the Supreme Court’s opinion in Louisiana v. Callais, which narrowed the scope of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act. And some in the media are willing to facilitate some of the most egregious rhetoric against the Court, even if it leads to further violence.
Watch as NBC’s Kristen Welker sets up U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna to call for court-packing with dangerous gaslighting, which in this charged environment could lead to violence:
WATCH: in an incitement of additional violence against the Judiciary, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) calls SCOTUS a "Dred Scott Court," and calls for the Court to be packed.
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KRISTEN WELKER: Let me ask you, finally, about the Supreme Court after its ruling limiting voting rights. You… pic.twitter.com/HycQPWwZoi
KRISTEN WELKER: Let me ask you, finally, about the Supreme Court after its ruling limiting voting rights. You called for term limits for justices and for expanding the court from 9 to 13 seats once Democrats regain full power of the government. But you have seen this redistricting back and forth play out. If Democrats expand the Court, if they were to have control of both chambers, what's to stop Republicans from doing it once the tables turn again?
RO KHANNA: Kristen, first we need to talk more about the Supreme Court decision. This is a Dred Scott court. They have engaged in the fastest rollback of black political rights since Rutherford Hayes ended Reconstruction in 1877. One third- one third of African Americans in the Congress' seats are being threatened. They’re doing it to Jim Clyburn in South Carolina, to Bennie Thompson in Mississippi, and across Alabama and the South. And we are not speaking up loudly enough, strongly enough against a Court that is really rolling back civil rights. I do believe if you combine term limits on the Court and the expansion of the Court where every president gets two appointees, you would depoliticize this, you would stand up for the Voting Rights Act and you would stand up for basic American democracy. But this is an assault on John Lewis, Dr. King and the Civil Rights legacy and the Democratic Party needs to run against this Court and call this Court out.
WELKER: All right. Congressman Ro Khanna. Thank you, as always, for being here. We really appreciate it.
KHANNA: Thank you, Kristen.
Of course, there is nothing whatsoever about Callais that limits voting rights for anyone. The ruling simply finds that racially gerrymandered districts are unconstitutional inasmuch as they constitute a discrimination on the basis of race. But these subtleties are beyond Welker, who needs to set Khanna up for an attack on the Court.
And Khanna delivers, calling the Court a “Dred Scott Court.” Welker doesn’t bat an eye as Khanna likens the end of racial gerrymandering to the Court’s most infamous ruling, which found that enslaved human beings had no rights and that they were property.
Such language is certainly inflammatory given the recent history of violence against the Supreme Court, which has been entirely driven by the left and its refusal to accept their rulings. We already saw what happened in the runup to the end of Roe v. Wade, with marches on the homes of conservative Justices and an actual murder plot against Justice Kavanaugh.
Khanna then proceeds to offer his remedy for these rulings that the left doesn’t like, which is to pack the court. As did Hugo Chavez under similar circumstances.
At no point does Welker cut in to get Khanna to dial back the rhetoric. Instead, she closes out the segment. Mission accomplished. Democracy™ Defended.
