A Republican senator revealed documents that show US Marshals assigned to protect Supreme Court justices last summer after the decision overturning Roe v. Wade were told that arresting protesters w…
The slides instructed the Marshals to “avoid, unless absolutely necessary, any criminal enforcement” involving protesters and that “making arrests and initiating prosecutions was not the goal” of their being stationed outside the residences of the court’s six conservative jurists.Another slide directed Marshals not to “engage [in] protest-related enforcement” and to allow the protesters to exercise their First Amendment rights except to protect the justices and their families.
“Were you, at any point before your testimony in front of the Judiciary Committee, aware of these training materials or the fact that the marshals had been heavily discouraged from making arrests … ?” Britt asked Garland.Getty Images Garland went on to say that protecting the justices was the Marshals’ “principal responsibility” but that wouldn’t stop them from “bringing other kinds of arrests.”
Police stand guard outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh last September as people protested the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.Federal law makes it illegal to picket or parade near a judge’s residence with the intent to interfere, obstruct or impede the administration of justice. Conservatives and Republicans have repeatedly demanded to know why no protesters were arrested or charged under the statute this past summer.
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