On March 1st 2005, Tom Delay said, “The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior,” when talking about judges in the Terri Schiavo case. On April 1st of that year U.S. District Judge Joan H. Lefkow came home to find her husband and mother murdered.

Fast forward two years and you got Superior Court Judge Rowland Barnes in Atlanta, Georgia, who was murdered along with his court reporter and a deputy. Within the two years from the first incident to that of the second incident, Republican rhetoric against the judicial never calmed down.

This is important to remember today as the forgetful, rhetoric filled GOP has suddenly become the defenders of the judiciary against President Obama’s remarks earlier this week when talking about the healthcare law challenge now in the SCOTUS.

So don’t let the GOP act like the biggest defender of the 3rd branch when they have been the biggest instigators of hate towards the bench in the past. It’s just more, election year B.S. being pushed by them.