{"id":1469475,"date":"2022-05-09T21:59:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1469475"},"modified":"2022-05-09T21:59:40","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T01:59:40","slug":"senate-adds-police-protection-to-supreme-court-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-adds-police-protection-to-supreme-court-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Adds Police Protection To Supreme Court Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-adds-police-protection-to-supreme-court-families%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1469475&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Senate unanimously passed a security bill on Monday to extend police protection to the Supreme Court justices\u2019 families.<\/p>\n<p>The bipartisan Supreme Court Police Parity Act, sponsored by Republican Texas Sen. John Cornyn and Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons, will allow the Supreme Court of the United States Police to provide around-the-clock security protection to the justices\u2019 families, similar to the protection members of Congress receive, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coons.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/sens-coons-cornyn-introduce-bill-to-extend-security-and-protection-for-scotus-justices-and-families\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to a press release from Coons\u2019 office.<\/p>\n<p>The senators introduced the legislation on Thursday, just three days after the leak of the majority opinion draft appearing set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/senate\/3482443-senate-passes-security-bill-for-supreme-court-family-members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThreats to the physical safety of the Supreme Court Justices and their families are disgraceful, and attempts to influence the independence of our judiciary cannot be tolerated,\u201d Cornyn said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornyn.senate.gov\/node\/6698\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m glad the Senate quickly passed my bill to extend SCOTUS police protection to family members. \u201cI am glad to see this bipartisan bill unanimously pass the Senate in order to extend security protection to the families of Supreme Court members.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Threats against Supreme Court Justices and their families are disgraceful, and attempts to influence the independence of our judiciary cannot be tolerated.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m glad the Senate quickly passed my bill to extend SCOTUS police protection to family members.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WP6cTmTOUZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/WP6cTmTOUZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCornyn\/status\/1523813438329442306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe events of the past week have intensified the focus on Supreme Court Justices\u2019 families,\u201d Coons said. \u201cIf the families of the Supreme Court Justices have the same profile and exposure as the high ranking officials in our government, they deserve the same level of protection. We must take threats that come from extremes on both sides of the political spectrum against Supreme Court Justices seriously, and that makes this bill an unfortunate necessity.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/06\/law-enforcement-violence-roe-v-wade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Law Enforcement Prepares For Violence In The Wake Of Unrest Surrounding Reported Roe v. Wade Decision)\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A left-wing organization, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/05\/left-wing-group-conservative-scotus-justices-roe-v-wade-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ruth Sent Us<\/a>,\u201d published the apparent home addresses of six conservative justices calling to protest the reported decision and in front of their homes. Protests took place in front of the home of Justice Samuel Alito\u2014who authored the opinion\u2014 located in Northern Virginia on Monday where crowds could be heard chanting \u201cour bodies, our voice\u201d and \u201cAlito is a coward,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/protests-erupt-outside-home-supreme-court-justice-alito\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Pro-abortion protesters also marched to the homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh during large, organized protests Saturday evening, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/pro-abortion-protesters-kavanaugh-roberts-homes-roe-wade\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A White House reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/09\/reporter-jen-psaki-protest-law-scotus-justices-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">confronted<\/a> White House press secretary Jen Psaki at Monday\u2019s briefing about a federal statute prohibiting protesters from organizing demonstrations in front of the home of any court official to prevent a private citizen from influencing a decision. The press secretary noted that while the White House supports peaceful protest, they do not encourage citizens to break the law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate unanimously passed a security bill on Monday to extend police protection to the Supreme Court justices\u2019 families.The bipartisan Supreme Court Police Parity Act, sponsored by Republican Texas Sen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1482190,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}