House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan wrote to the head of the US Marshals Service on Wednesday demanding to know why officers were told not to arrest protesters outside the homes of conser…
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan wrote to the head of the US Marshals Service on Wednesday demanding to know why officers were told not to arrest protesters outside the homes of conservative Supreme Court justices., Jordan requests information related to alleged training slides that discouraged Marshals from arresting individuals protesting the Supreme Court’s leaked draft opinion last May in the case that eventually overturned Roe v. Wade.
“Although federal law prohibits picketing near the residence of a federal judge with the intent to influence the judge’s official duties, recent evidence indicates that the U.S. Marshals protecting the justices were directed to ‘not’ conduct arrests ‘unless it was absolutely necessary.’” Jordan is investigation the Marshals Service as part of his probe into the politicization of federal law enforcement.The Ohio Republican then cites Senate Democrats’ 2019 attempt to bully the court by threatening to have it “restructured,” Sen. Chuck Schumer’s 2020 threat that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh will “will pay the price” for “awful decisions,” and the Senate’s recent attempt at judicial ethics reform as intimidation tactics.
The leak of a draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case last year sparked protests by abortion rights advocates.Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote for the majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, told the Wall Street Journal last week that the leak was “part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft … from becoming the decision of the court.
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