SC judges tell US Congress their safety is at risk and more be spent on security 63%
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7/15/2026, 3:47:00 AM
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Justice Amy Coney Barrett laid out in personal terms on Tuesday the reasons she said Congress should approve a roughly 10% annual budget increase for the US Supreme Court to bolster security, telling lawmakers about threats that she and her family have recently faced.
The appearance by Barrett, along with Justice Elena Kagan before the appropriations subcommittee of the House of Representatives, was the first by sitting justices before Congress since 2019, excluding Senate confirmation hearings for nominees.
The Supreme Court police department expects a “substantial 38% annual increase in threats this year, which follows a 25% increase last year,” Kagan told lawmakers in an opening statement.
“For some of us, those threats have come very close, and all of us live with the knowledge that they may again materialise,” she said.
Barrett told lawmakers about some of the threats she and her family have encountered.
She said that when threats intensified after the leak in 2022 of a draft of the court’s ruling overturning Roe vs Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that guaranteed the right to abortion nationwide, her security detail sent her home with a bulletproof vest, prompting her then 12-yearold son to ask what it was.
“I didn’t expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was and why Ihad to wear one.”
In one of the most highprofile incidents, a California resident appeared near Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home in 2022 armed with a handgun.
Sophie Roske pleaded guilty to attempted assassination.
According to data from the US marshals service, nearly 400 judges faced threats last year and 276 have been targeted this year as of July 1.
Barrett and Kagan defended the court’s nearly $230 million request for the next fiscal year, a roughly 10% increase from this year.
Report by Reuters
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