Law professor Paul Campos has an editorial in today's Rocky Mountain News that begins:
Suppose the American Civil Liberties Union were to organize a conference in Washington, D.C., attended by Democratic members of Congress and prominent liberal activists, at which one of these activists gave a speech implying that Justice Antonin Scalia ought to be assassinated.
Suppose this activist quoted Joseph Stalin as authority for the proposition that murdering one's political opponents was a desirable way of dealing with them, even (or perhaps especially) when these opponents are judges.
We can only imagine the storm of protest such a suggestion would unleash. Yet this, in effect, is what happened last week, when Republican members of Congress and prominent conservative activists, including people such as Phyllis Schlafly, met in Washington to protest the behavior of American judges in general, and Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy in particular.
(via How Appealing)