A man was arrested on his way to murder a Supreme Court justice. And it was a footnote the next day in a major national newspaper. Was it because it was Brett Kavanaugh, and that the particular newspaper isn’t happy he’s on the Court? That same paper had an above-the-fold “Inside an Attack on Democracy” story, referring to the January 6, 2021, hearings in Congress. That was an obvious attack. But what about this more recent assassination attempt on a Supreme Court justice? Reporting it beside a story on the January 6 hearings might be a wake-up call alerting us that we have a bipartisan problem in our country today.
Besides being one of the few to have a seat on this coequal branch of our national government, Kavanaugh is a husband and father to young children. It’s a chilling and abhorrent reality that people who serve in government are being targeted, protested, and threatened at their homes.
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