Dem Senate candidate in hot water over violent fantasy targeting conservative SCOTUS justices

A Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan is facing backlash after a clip went viral Thursday revealing what she would do if she saw Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh in public.

Mallory McMorrow, who is running in the crowded Democratic Senate primary, sparked a backlash from conservatives on social media after her comments to supporters surfaced last month. An attendee at a Huron Valley Indivisible event on Nov. 12 asked McMorrow if it “made sense to deal with the Supreme Court,” adding that she “blamed[s] them for a lot.”

“So I’m a Notre Dame grad and Amy Coney Barrett coming out of my college makes me furious. Just on a personal level. I talked to someone yesterday who said they saw her with Brett Kavanaugh at a tailgate last weekend,” McMorrow said last month. “I wouldn’t have been able to control myself. It would be bad. Beers would be thrown in people’s faces.”

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Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow speaks on the first day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 2024. Vice President Kamala Harris will formally accept the party’s nomination for chair at the DNC taking place August 19-22 in Chicago. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Conservatives immediately criticized McMorrow on social media for her violent rhetoric, including the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which said, “She needs help.”

“It is impossible for a Democratic candidate not to be a crazy, violent radical,” Club for Growth President David McIntosh wrote on X.

“Seems like she shouldn’t be in the Senate, then,” National Review editor Charles Cooke wrote on X.

“I really don’t understand politicians who openly brag about being overwhelmed by emotions like disgust, as if that’s an asset,” Wall Street Journal columnist Kyle Smith wrote on X.

“A pattern of Democratic politicians, up to and including Chuck Schumer, openly encouraging violence against Supreme Court justices,” Federalist editor Molly Hemmingway wrote on X.

“Sounds like she should seek professional help and consider therapy rather than running for Senate,” conservative writer AG Hamilton wrote on X.

“Democrats are now openly threatening Supreme Court justices with violence,” Steve Guest, a Republican Party operative, wrote on X.

Fox News Digital contacted the McMorrow campaign several times about the clip, but did not receive a response.

A Democratic Senate candidate said in a video that emerged Thursday that “there would be beers thrown in people’s faces” if she saw conservative Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett (left) and Brett Kavanaugh (right) in public. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images | Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Photo by Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Several people online compared the comments to those of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. in 2020, when he targeted Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch, both conservative Supreme Court justices, and said: “You have unleashed the whirlwind and you will pay the price.” You won’t know what hit you if you go ahead with these terrible decisions” at an abortion rights rally.

Schumer would later return to the quote, saying, “I shouldn’t have used the words I used yesterday. They didn’t come out the way I intended.”

This isn’t the first time McMorrow has faced scrutiny this year. Last October, McMorrow headlined the “John D. Dingell Unity Dinner,” which featured a sign with coded language threatening President Donald Trump and equating his supporters with Nazis.

The sign, posted by local Democrats, read “MAGA=NAZI” and “86 47.” The number “86” originated in restaurants to mean “cancel” or “discard”, but in underworld slang it is frequently used as a call sign for murdering someone. The number “47” is commonly interpreted to refer to the 47th President of the United States, Trump.

“That sign was wrong. Especially now, we each have a responsibility to choose our words and signs carefully and avoid anything that could be interpreted as a call to violence,” Andrew Mamo, McMorrow’s Michigan spokesperson, told Fox News Digital at the time.

She was also investigated for fundraising from far-left radicals, including a blogger who mocked the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

McMorrow’s month-old clip was released as news spread that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had been verbally harassed in public at a luxury restaurant and wine bar in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday evening by Code Pink, a radical left group.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was confronted by CODEPINK protesters while dining at a Washington DC restaurant on Wednesday. (Getty Images; CODEPINK)

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“We want to make an announcement! We have a special guest here, and we want to toast Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent!” DiNucci said after banging his glass to get everyone’s attention. “So let’s give it up for the man who eats in peace while people are starving all over the world because of his sanctions, which are economic warfare.”

“He oversees the deaths of 600,000 people every year because of sanctions,” she added. “How many people will die because of the blood on your hands?”