This is D.C., a lot of rats to trap. Odd that they can know a specific date, don't you think?
The rest of the country will be running just fine without all these sleazeballs out of the way long before April 24.
Maybe them. R&J are "star-crossed lovers", from the play, relating to astrology, etc.
In the prologue, chorus uses states, "A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life, / Whose misadventured piteous overthrows / Doth with their death bury their parents' strife." (Lines 6-8) The phrase is about Romeo and Juliet, whose love and affection is destined to end in a tragedy.