Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan appeared on Capitol Hill to request a ten percent increase in Supreme Court budget spending. The intent is to hire additional security to protect themselves from the outcome of their rulings.
Justice Barrett talked about the harrowing threats to herself and her family as the Court wants to bolster security. The overall appearance before congress is slightly ironic considering the increase in threats is a direct consequence of court rulings that have opened borders, blocked deportation, stalled law enforcement, granted illegal aliens rights to citizenship and generally undermined our nation’s domestic tranquility.
Sorry, but my opinion on the matter has adjusted to new information. The Supreme Court should have to live in the reality of the world they judicially create. No additional public security should be afforded. They have a security detail that supersedes any security level a taxpaying American citizen might be afforded.
No expanded security details should be afforded to government employees, just to avoid the consequences of their ideology.
Mrs Barrett and her family can carry self-defense firearms, wear protective vests and worry about their security in the parking lot of the local supermarket just like we do. Not to be obtuse, but the Constitution equally applies.
Another Pence lemon.
You are on your own, ACB. Good luck.
If the threat is so bad, she could resign.
Or at least stop making it worse by ending auto-citizenship for the progeny of illegal aliens. Just saying.
Do they ever stop to think which side is threatening them? It isn’t the Conservatives. I agree. Let them live with the obviously Cadillac protection they now have and if they need more, they can provide it themselves.
How about not allowing stolen elections, illegal immigration, no jail, sanctuary cities, Antifa riots, etc. we’d all be safer.
If the Supreme Court does its job, it sits over the best country that has ever been created for the good of human beings. If they do the job the Constitution directs them to do, they wouldn’t need security.
It annoys my sensibility that anyone would send threats to our government officials, even though many on the left deserve it. Every time a leftist gets in trouble, they claim they have been threatened. The only people threatening anybody are the psychopaths of the left.
TWO WORDS: NOPE!
Issue them sidearms drawn from the armory of one of the nearest military installations and a smallish stipend to qualify with it yearly.
Maintenance and accountably will be expected with Uncle Sam’s weapons.
Good enough for our troops, good enough for the leadership in our government.
Do YOU get a “smallish stipend” when you go to qualify? Sundance is absolutely correct.
I got ammo issued to me when I was still serving in uniform, not now.
A box of 9mm is not that expensive and does not even register as a blip with the Federal spending in the trillions.
Besides, their existing security budget would pay for it millions of times over. So I guess they can just pay for it out of their existing budget too.
And they’ll have to get firearms and carry licenses for DC, just like the rest of us peons would have to.
Dear Amy,
Learn to use it and keep pepper spray in your purse.
signed
“We the people” cause our give a damn is busted.
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”― Thomas Sowell
Hey Amy, if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen!
One constant throughout government is the desperate need to live in a different world than they create for others.
I would ask Amy: Why should the Supreme Court be given more money for security when they are not helping the president to make the country safer by allowing dozens of rulings of judges blocking the president and slowing down needed changes to a snail’s pace?
Yes, you’re on 🎯 SD.
•Amy Commie-Barret could have remained in her insulated academic world;
•She could take her personal security into her own hands or;
•She can resign.
What she cannot do is shift the burden of her actions onto the taxpaying citizens of the Republic for which she did not stand.
She likely thought if she ruled in favor of the Leftists on birthright citizenship, that they would quit threatening her.
You can NEVER appease the Leftist mobs. They’ll take everything they can and kill you anyways.
If she’s that concerned for her safety, she should resign. But she’ll probably still be a target, since they’re compiling hit lists of conservatives for when they take back power.
God help us all if that happens.
Being “smart” and possessing “intelligence” are not the same.
One can be the former and have not a shred of the latter.
Coney Barrett is Exhibit A, a woman so far removed from the world we are all forced to live in made worse because of her ideologically leanings and, yes, arrogance.
I doubt it ever occurred to her that she would be eaten not last but eaten…full stop.
One more time…
Life gives us the test first and the lesson after.
And now she knows.
If “smug” had a face…
Their recent rulings have endangered my family. Where my 10?
Man, has ACB aged! Wow.
Not crossing to the other side fast enough!
“Justice Barrett talked about the harrowing threats to herself and her family as the Court wants to bolster security. The overall appearance before congress is slightly ironic considering the increase in threats is a direct consequence of court rulings that have opened borders, blocked deportation, stalled law enforcement, granted illegal aliens rights to citizenship and generally undermined our nation’s domestic tranquility.”
Don’t forget that many of their rulings have undermined our NATIONAL SECURITY.
Maybe President Trump can re-gift her the *Magnum* that was gifted to him recently!!! Hehehehe
I doubt she would reciprocate for such a fine gift.
She definitely can afford to buy her own as an Associate Justice with an annual salary of about $306,600.
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/about-federal-judges/judicial-compensation
Excellent Idea.
Justice Barrett could call Prime Minister Carney of Canada and ask for his .357 Magnum before the police authorities dispose of it.
And before you know it, we’ll all be singing the tale of Justice Amy Coney “Get the hell out of my yard!” Barrett.
I encourage Justice Barrett to resign even if it would make her feel just the slightest bit safer.
Send her back to Southbend with the other crooks and creeps…..thugs and slugs
I totally agree with Sundance on this issue.
Maybe I don’t know teens these days (I should) but I would think the teen boy would be impressed that his mom had a bulletproof vest to wear.
They’ll give it to them and wouldn’t surprise me if they give protection back to Fauci and Hunter Crackhead Biden.
She just ruled on making elections easier to cheat. A fair, accurate election by Citizens is a prerequisite for law and order. We don’t have that so it deteriorates from there.
Talk about bad timing, she votes to allow illegals to birth away our country and now wants $$$$ because it’s so unsafe here, because of her.
No.
Sundance 💯💯💯
Sundance is right but they will get the increase.
Call you respective congresscritters and weigh in that having to navigate the same socioeconomic ecosystem that we do might shift their judgement from the theoretical and idealistic to the empirical and realistic.
Quite frankly, I hope that she, Roberts and the 3 female Marxists fear for their lives, constantly, and need to watch their backs, look over their shoulders, and have their stomachs tied in knots for the rest of their days. Same for their spouses, kids, and whatevers.
F-them all.
What’s weird is the right is no threat. The left and right are afraid of the radical leftist.
Another weird thing is Kagan said the protection for Scalia was a few hours away when he died. Why would they have needed them if he died of natural causes. Or did I hear that wrong, I just caught the end of it?
Psalm 109!
I don’t always agree, but today I agree 1000%.
Why not mail politicians who are promoting this type of behavior.
Oh the Democrats preached it’s Trump and his Imperial Presidency. Yet name one threat from the right?
How about the problem is the Imperial judges in the lower district courts?
It just seems to me that we have allowed our society to “progress” in the name of free speech and social justice to an uncivil society. People/activists can do almost anything to drive their ideology. They can assault others, block roads, occupy buildings, damage property, prevent others from speaking their opinions, on an on…
They do these things because they can. Our judicial system protects them do these hateful acts with little to no accountability.
The church in Minnesota that was assaulted by activists, Don Lemon, and others were not held accountable by the court. There are so many examples of people doing unlawful things and our judicial system protects them.
So, give me a break when the people that sets the standards for our judicial system is affected by similar actions of unlawful deranged progressives..
At least that’s my knee jerk reaction to their complaints.
>So up here in NY you can’t buy a stun gun, ammunition, pepper spray, taser or any other method of defense for law abiding citizens.
The RAT 🐀 Party destroys our cities, counties, states and towns with criminals, illegals and Islamists with Marxist policies. So why should we pay for MORE security for SCOTUS when we can’t protect ourselves? 💁🏻♀️
I would support an increase…but just for Justice’s Thomas and Alito. The rest can fend for themselves.
I’m ok with granting them the extra security on exchange for a solid 2A ruling that allows us lowlings nation wide, unrestricted, open or concealed carry of our firearms. No bans on ammo, mags or any type of semi-auto. No bans on where we can carry or when we can carry.
If they can have extra security, then so should we.
Note to Barrett: They are coming after you no matter what, so maybe DO BETTER!!! Can’t take it? Well step aside ASAP and let someone more qualified and with a backbone fill your spot.
Of Course, send out the Female SCOTUS to generate sympathy…. Pathetic…. Barrett reminds me of that fraud Blasy-Ford…
10% budget increase…….
tied to a 10% salary decrease……
Fair’s fair……
I’m with Sundance on this one .all out of sympathy for these folks who don’t want to live with the consequences of their rulings and actions . welcome to the club honey now go get yourself a 9MM
In a pig’s eye! Not one cent for more security! You have caused the ruination of this country and destroyed our constitution. Live with the consequences of your disastrous actions and don’t demand that the rest of us fund your protection goon squad! No deal! If you don’t like it, there is the door- resign!
Thank you Sundance.
She wants protection from the free people in whose backs she shoved the knife. Perhaps she should have negotiated a bigger bribe. Or was it blackmail. I get confused.
I hope PJDT posts something directly in line with Sundance’s statement today.
All the bleeding heart liberals they are all worried about are not the least bit concerned if WE lay on the streets bleeding to death. At least not until the government welfare funds dry up!
“”The Supreme Court should have to live in the reality of the world they judicially create. “”
This is it right here, this nails it.
Every decision the Supreme Court has made and not made, it’s brought us to this place.
We’ve voted our way out of this repeatedly in electing Donald Trump, and they haven’t helped him as much as they could have- and this is the bottom line.
The Supreme Court has very often chosen the wrong side, chose to grow what needed to be ended and stopped, they’ve certainly not done all they could have to have avoided where they are right now.
I have no sympathy.
We’ve been trying to vote our way out of what we’ve seen as a growing state of emergency and we’ve been doing this for our entire adult lives- and here we are.
Let them suffer the consequences- good and hard.
I really hope that Justice Thomas and Justice Alito tell these women begging for money now “We Told Ya SO!!”
Yup. Two words…”four boxes”.
Soap, Ballot, Jury, Ammo.
But…but… we are more important than your average citizen therefore we need more security.
No sympathy. You made your bed now sleep in it.
No. You have no standing.
Under U.S. law, standing dictates whether a party has the right to bring a lawsuit to court. If a plaintiff has “no standing,” the court will dismiss the case without ever ruling on its merits because the party lacks a sufficient, personal, and tangible connection to the dispute.The Constitutional RequirementsFederal courts are strictly limited by Article III of the U.S. Constitution to hearing only actual “cases” and “controversies”. To establish standing, a plaintiff must prove three core elements:Injury in Fact: The plaintiff must have suffered a concrete, particularized, and actual or imminent harm. Outrage, general grievances, or ideological disagreement are not enough.Causation: The injury must be directly “fairly traceable” to the defendant’s conduct, rather than the result of independent actions.Redressability: It must be likely—not just speculative—that a favorable court decision will remedy or compensate for the injury.Why Standing MattersJurisdictional: Standing is not a technicality; it is a jurisdictional requirement. If it is missing, a federal court simply has no power to hear the case, and the issue cannot be waived by the parties.Separation of Powers: The doctrine prevents courts from overstepping their bounds into the legislative or executive branches by issuing advisory opinions or deciding abstract political questions.Common PitfallsGeneralized Grievances: Suing simply as a taxpayer or a concerned citizen generally does not grant standing.Third-Party Rights: Plaintiffs usually cannot sue to vindicate the rights of someone else, unless there is a specific exception.
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Wish I knew how ro make them bigger!!
Have to side with the Justices’ this time. Do any of the commenters on this thread including SD him/her self imagine they are as recognizable as any one of our 9 Supreme Court Justices? Love my Treehouse and value its founder’s intelligence and wisdom but occasionally the group can get a bit “full of itself” to quote a saying from my Grandma.
My own grandmother also had a favorite saying: “You made your bed, now lie in it.”
Totally agree, Sundance. It’s outrageous
Another example of why women should not be on the court. I don’t see the men claiming lack of protection.
Bravo! Excellent comment.
Ditto.
not a chance! when you refuse to evaluate law and instead rewrite it, playing the “victim card” for threats you created doesn’t cut it, if she feels that threatened then she should resign in disgrace. Let this enemy within provide security for her 7 kids and herself, not hardworking taxpayers… pound sand
This bish made citizenship free and completely valueless, let her defend herself…
God bless our Republic