{"id":4889,"date":"2026-07-13T22:35:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4889"},"modified":"2026-07-13T22:35:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:35:30","slug":"with-threats-rising-supreme-court-asks-congress-to-increase-security-funds-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4889","title":{"rendered":"With threats rising, Supreme Court asks Congress to increase security funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>The Supreme Court is asking for millions of dollars from Congress to draft plans for a new facility to screen visitors outside the court\u2019s home on Capitol Hill, as security threats against the justices mount.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4887\">Former teammates still wrapping brains around the Jaylen Brown trade, and other Celtics observations from Summer League<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The $6.5 million proposal is preliminary but could result in visitors at the court being moved out of the building for screening, a setup similar to that adopted at the Capitol with the opening of a visitor\u2019s center in 2008.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Budget documents show the justices asked for money to design a new facility as part of an overall $228 million request for the budget year that begins Oct. 1, an increase of about $20 million.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett are scheduled to make a rare appearance at the Capitol on Tuesday to defend the court\u2019s budget before House and Senate subcommittees, the first time justices will have testified before Congress since 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Threats against the justices, their families, and other federal judges have risen dramatically in recent years, data from the US Marshals show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After a draft of the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked in 2022, an armed man tried to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In May, police said they determined that Barrett\u2019s Northern Virginia home had been the target of a \u201cswatting\u201d attack, in which a false tip reporting gunshots was called in to prompt a law enforcement response. Last year, police officers in South Carolina were dispatched to the home of one of Barrett\u2019s sisters because of a threat that there was a pipe bomb in her mailbox, which proved to be a hoax.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The court\u2019s budget proposal also requests an increase of $14.6 million to continue the expansion of the court\u2019s in-house police force and for security when the justices travel outside the Washington area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And the justices have asked for additional funding for a regional command post to be located outside the court complex for the officers responsible for securing the justices\u2019 homes. The post is intended to \u201cimprove reaction time in case of an emergency,\u201d according to budget documents. They\u2019ve also requested $2.3 million to hire engineers and developers to protect the work of the justices from \u201cquickly evolving cyberthreats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Congress has largely deferred to the justices on issues of security, and lawmakers have approved additional funding for them on a bipartisan basis. Lawmakers have until Sept. 30 to pass a new spending bill for the next fiscal year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI want to give them all of the security they need,\u201d Representative Rosa DeLauro, Democrat of Connecticut, the senior Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said this spring of the justices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But, she added, \u201cthe court has to come up here, tell us what you\u2019re doing. We have no idea what you spend the money on.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That kind of request has resulted in Tuesday\u2019s visit by the justices, who are scheduled to testify before a House subcommittee in the morning and in front of senators in the afternoon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Supreme Court\u2019s budget request includes two parts \u2014 money for salaries and general operations and, separately, expenditures to maintain the court\u2019s building and grounds, which includes the request for funds for a new courthouse visitor\u2019s entrance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4885\">\u2018Vote her out!\u2019 Protesters crowd Susan Collins\u2019 Biddeford office after ICE fatally shot driver<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Kagan and Barrett are scheduled to discuss only the first part, though they could be asked about either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>And lawmakers\u2019 questions on Tuesday could range beyond the budget. The justices could be asked about some of their more contested recent rulings, their decisions to take part in or recuse from key cases, and more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Supreme Court\u2019s decisions in recent years \u2014 especially the overturning of Roe and the grant of immunity to President Trump from prosecution for official acts \u2014 have led some Democrats to call for an overhaul of the court. Lawmakers and candidates have proposed term limits for the life-tenured justices and to add justices to the bench to restore \u201cbalance\u201d on the nine-member court that now has six justices nominated by Republicans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The testimony from Kagan, a liberal, and Barrett, a conservative, will come two weeks after the Supreme Court wrapped up a momentous term with rulings that frustrated both Republicans and Democrats in Congress. The court blocked Trump\u2019s effort to end birthright citizenship for babies born in the United States to immigrants who are in the country illegally, but significantly weakened the landmark Voting Rights Act, clearing the way for Republicans throughout the South to redraw congressional maps.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>Justices last appeared before Congress in 2019, when Kagan and Justice Samuel Alito were politely quizzed about their views on the possibility of televising the Supreme Court\u2019s oral arguments and whether the justices would draft an ethics code.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But after revelations that Justice Clarence Thomas had failed to report gifts and luxury travel paid for by a Texas billionaire in 2023, Chief Justice John Roberts declined a request to appear before Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>At Tuesday\u2019s hearings, Kagan and Barrett are likely to strive to focus only on their budget request and court security, potentially touching on how the increase in threats has changed the daily lives of Supreme Court justices in the past decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Before the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, who was hunting in Texas without official security when he died in 2016, most of the justices drove themselves to and from work and were frequently spotted without a security detail while performing ordinary errands like grocery shopping.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But since protests erupted outside the justices\u2019 homes after the leak of the abortion decision, they now have round-the-clock security, including at their homes, and are accompanied at all times by members of the court\u2019s police force.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span>In recent years, the court transitioned from relying on US Marshals to protect the justices\u2019 homes to assigning that role to the US Supreme Court Police. The court has dramatically expanded the size of its in-house police force because of \u201cevolving risks that require continuous protection,\u201d according to another recent budget proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A recruiting video says the police force includes \u201cmore than 200 sworn officers and growing\u201d and advertises the role as: \u201cThe highest court. A higher calling.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Data from the US Marshals Service, which oversees security for the entire federal judiciary, showed there were more than 600 threats against judges in fiscal 2023, the year after the Supreme Court eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion. The US Marshals reported a 57 percent increase in significant security incidents for judges in fiscal 2025 and the number was on track to rise again in fiscal 2026, according to the judiciary\u2019s budget proposal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=4883\">Mass. high court rules GOP candidate accused of submitting fake signatures can stay on primary ballot<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>This article originally appeared in The New York Times.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court is asking for millions of dollars from Congress to draft plans for a new facility to screen visitors outside the court&#8217;s home on Capitol Hill, as security threats against the justices mount.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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