U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a 'suspicious vehicle' in front of the Supreme Court and advising the public to stay away from an area that has increasingly been the scene of attacks and threats.
The Supreme Court is back in-person after a year of remote arguments. Here are some of the contentious cases on the docket.WASHINGTON – U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a"suspicious vehicle" in front of the Supreme Court and advising the public to stay away from an area that has increasingly been the scene of attacks and threats.
Last month, Capitol Police arrested a man carrying a bayonet and machete in a truck bearing white supremacist symbols near the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington. In August, A 49-year-old North Carolina man, who claimed to be carrying a bomb in a pickup truck parked near the U.S. Capitol, peacefully surrendered to police a U.S. Capitol Police officer was killed
and another hospitalized after a man rammed a car into a security barrier near the U.S. Capitol building on Friday. Those incidents followed Jan. 6, when a mob of former President Donald Trump's supporters overwhelmed police and broke into Capitol.
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