The Left’s Intimidation Tactics: A Direct Assault on Judicial Independence
The Left—let’s call them what they often are, communists in spirit—relies on violence because it works. When you’ve got no moral qualms about breaking skulls to get your way, it’s a straight line from threat to compliance. And it’s especially effective on the weak, the spineless, the ones who’d rather bend than break. That’s why Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett keeps voting with the Left. It’s not ideology. It’s not some hidden liberal streak. It’s fear, pure and simple. They’ve targeted her, and she’s buckling.
Don’t believe it? Look at the evidence. The Left’s playbook isn’t subtle—it’s a Molotov cocktail thrown at the rule of law. Take the assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh in June 2022. A deranged lunatic, Nicholas John Roske, showed up outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home armed with a Glock, a knife, zip ties, and a tactical vest. His mission? To murder Kavanaugh over the leaked Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade and to “protect” gun control laws. This wasn’t a random nutcase—this was a wake-up call to the Supreme Court, a screaming neon sign that the Left’s rhetoric has consequences. Roske told the FBI he was radicalized by online forums and the post-Dobbs fury stoked by leftist activists. The message was clear: rule against us, and you’re a target.
And it worked. The failed assassination wasn’t a failure—it was a resounding success. Kavanaugh survived, sure, but the psychological shrapnel hit the entire Court. Justices don’t have Tier 1 operators from Triple Canopy shadowing them 24/7. They’re not SEAL Team Six. They’re human—vulnerable, exposed, and now painfully aware that their lives are on the line. For someone like Barrett, that’s a pressure cooker she can’t escape. She’s not a warrior. She’s a jurist, a mother, a woman who’s seen the mob at her doorstep and the crosshairs on her colleague. Fear doesn’t need to land a bullet to win—it just needs to plant the seed.
Barrett’s voting record tells the story. She’s no leftist—her appointment by Trump and her judicial philosophy scream conservative. But cracks show. In Fulton v. Philadelphia (2021), she wrote a tepid concurrence, dodging a full-throated defense of religious liberty against government overreach. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), she joined the majority to overturn Roe, but her cautious tone hinted at hesitation to provoke the beast. And then there’s Murthy v. Missouri (2024), where she sided with the liberal justices to greenlight the Biden administration’s social media censorship scheme—a gut punch to free speech. This isn’t principle. It’s self-preservation. The Left’s shadow looms, and Barrett’s flinching.
They’ve targeted her directly, too. After Dobbs, pro-abortion activists didn’t just rage online—they showed up at her Virginia home. Protests turned personal, with crowds chanting outside her house, disrupting her family, her kids, her life. They phoned in a bomb threat to her sister. The message wasn’t “debate us.” It was “fear us.” Federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1507) bans picketing near a judge’s residence to influence decisions, but the Biden DOJ sat on its hands. Attorney General Merrick Garland called it a “resource issue.” Bullshit. It’s complicity.
The Democrats fuel this fire and refuse to douse it. Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader, stood on the Supreme Court steps in March 2020 and bellowed, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.” That’s not a metaphor—it’s a threat. Maxine Waters, in 2018, urged supporters to “get in the faces” of Trump officials, to make them “not welcome” anywhere. After the Kavanaugh attempt, Nancy Pelosi shrugged off condemning it, pivoting to gun control talking points. When pressed on protests at justices’ homes, White House flack Karine Jean-Pierre said, “We don’t have an official position.” No condemnation, no accountability—just a wink and a nod. They know it’s effective.
Weaklings like Mitt Romney and Amy Barrett get devoured by this. Romney, the perennial hand-wringer, whines about “civility” but won’t call out the Left’s terrorism for what it is. He’d rather lose with a smile than fight with a spine. Barrett’s no different. She’s not Clarence Thomas, staring down the mob with ice in his veins, or Sam Alito, who’d probably tell the protesters to bring it on. She’s fragile, and the Left smells it. Violence works on people like her—people who’d rather compromise than confront.
This isn’t just about one justice. It’s a siege on the judiciary itself. The U.S. Marshals Service reported over 4,500 threats against federal judges in 2023—a 400% spike since 2015. The Left’s endgame is a Court too terrified to defy them, a judiciary that kneels to the street instead of the Constitution. If they can break Barrett, if they can scare Kavanaugh into looking over his shoulder, what’s next? Congress? The presidency? Dissent itself?
The brutal truth is this: the Left doesn’t give a damn about the rule of law. They want power, and they’ll burn the system down to get it. The Kavanaugh attempt, the Barrett protests, the Democrats’ silence—it’s all part of the same playbook. Call it what it is: domestic terrorism. And it’s winning because weak losers won’t fight back.
We’re at a tipping point. If fear dictates justice, the Republic’s done. The judiciary is the last bastion against tyranny, and it’s under assault. It’s time to stop playing nice, stop pretending this is politics as usual. Condemn the Left’s tactics, protect the Court, and punish the inciters—Schumer, Waters, all of them. Anything less is surrender. The communists don’t negotiate. They intimidate. And right now, they’re laughing as Barrett trembles and Romney tut-tuts. Enough.