The “Spartacus” nickname has stuck firmly to preposterous left-wing Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ). Watch his colleague Ted Cruz (R-TX) refer to him by this name at a hearing over whether partisan federal judges have the authority to paralyze the Trump Administration so that it cannot govern:

The context of the clip above is Democrat encouragement of violence against Supreme Court justices who do not toe the liberal line. Cruz said:

“I would also note that the Senator from New Jersey clutched his pearls about language-threatening judges. And yet I do not recall a single Democrat Senator of this committee saying a word when Chuck Schumer went to the steps of the Supreme Court and threatened the safety of the Supreme Court justices by name, Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, and he said, ‘You have unleashed the whirlwind and you will pay the price.’ And not a single Democrat senator had a word to say about this.”

Spartacus accused Cruz of hypocrisy for criticizing Schumer’s threat against justices. Cruz responded:

“So let the record reflect that Spartacus did not answer the question and did not tell us whether the criminal law should be enforced because he knows the answer is yes, and he knows that the Biden Department of Justice was being wildly political and partisan in refusing to enforce the law because they disagreed with the Supreme Court justice’s rulings.”

Booker declared himself to be having a “‘Spartacus moment” during the appalling spectacle Democrats made of Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing.

No word on when his fellow Dems in the media will call Booker a Nazi like they did Elon Musk for making an identical salute. Heil Spartacus!

On a tip from Jack D.