Chuck Schumer’s threats against Supreme Court justices are the subject of a “preliminary investigation.”

“Women’s reproductive rights have been attacked in a way we haven’t seen in modern history over the last three years,” he declared in that furious speech aimed at the justices. Republican legislatures are attacking women in every state, from Louisiana to Missouri to Texas, and depriving them of their basic rights.

After inciting fury with those divisive words, the senator proceeded to the threatening part of the speech, saying, “I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.” If you continue with these terrible choices, you won’t know what hit you.

A few days later, in a speech on the Senate floor, he said he didn’t mean to threaten the justices and offered no apologies. Schumer “shouldn’t have used the words I did” in that weasel-like non-apology. He went on to say that Republicans were unfairly attempting to “generate outrage” by using his remarks.

“Justices know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, but they are dangerous,” Chief Justice Roberts said in a rare, for him, critique of Sen. Schumer and his threats against the two justices at the time.

Although Schumer was the subject of an ethics complaint at the time, which was never resolved, the Trump Administration is now beginning the process of taking action. In reality, interim D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin stated that an investigation into Schumer has been begun and is in its basic stages in a letter dated January 21 that the Washington Post was able to get.