Media, Democratic rhetoric toward Kavanaugh, Supreme Court under scrutiny after assassination attempt
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Members of the liberal media and Democratic politicians have engaged in incendiary rhetoric aimed at SCOTUS Justices over abortion, including Brett Kavanaugh.
Nikolas Lanum is an associate editor for Fox News Digital.
The media reacted in a variety of different ways to the news, but members never highlighted their own instances of charged language as a possible motivator for the assassination attempt.
CNN’s Whitney Wild, following news of the attempt on Kavanaugh’s life, said that Supreme Court justices "certainly" could be at threat from violent extremists in the coming months. However, Wild asserted that the risk of violence "truly comes from both sides of the abortion debate." Kavanaugh has frequently been painted as bent on overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade case.
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