White House Won t Condemn Supreme Doxxing | RealClearPolitics
Other conservative judicial activists are pointing to a federal law barring pickets or parades near a courthouse or a judge s home with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror witness or court officer&.
When Doocy pressed Psaki on whether Biden cares whether protesters are planning to gather outside justices private residences, she tried to sidestep the question. I don t have an official U.S. government position on where people protest, she said.
Really? Mike Davis, a former Gorsuch law clerk and the chief counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee, tweeted. How about Title 19, Section 1507 of the United States Code?
Meanwhile, Congress is stepping in to provide greater protections for high court justices. Sens. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, and Chris Coons, a Delaware Democrat close to Biden, have introduced the Supreme Court Policy Parity Act to provide greater law enforcement protections to the justices and their families. The bill would extend security protection to justices families, give greater arrest authority to the police assigned to the high court and make obstructing or impeding those police a crime.
Cornyn, during a Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday, called the leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion an attack against the independence of the U.S. court system, the U.S. government s crown jewel.
That s the reason why we go through this laborious process of advice and consent for federal judges to protect that independence, he said. And it s not just an attack against the independence of the judiciary, this risks violence against members of the Supreme Court and their families.
We can t stoop to the level of the mob we have to stand up for what we believe to be right, he concluded.