There are definitely questions about how it is appropriate to use that docket, when it's appropriate to use that docket, the standards to be applied.

I call it the emergency docket.

I think that, as we have gotten more experienced in these constant requests that are coming to us about requests for emergency relief, that we better recognize that at least sometimes there is a need for additional information.

I know have some significant concerns.

Criticism is fair game, but intimidation is a different thing entirely.

When political figures of any stripe are trying to intimidate judges and justices to do things that they like, rather than the things that they don’t, that’s where we really have crossed the line.

For some of us, those threats have come very close, and all of us live with the knowledge that they may again materialize.

Intimidation is a different thing entirely. And when political figures of any stripe are trying to intimidate judges and justices to do things that they like rather than the things that they don't, that's where we really have crossed the…

They're dangerous in terms of individual justices' security and they're not appropriate in the way to treat a coordinate branch of government.

Right now visitors walk into the court and that’s where they are checked. That’s where they are sent through the magnetometer and checked for weapons and so forth.

The Supreme Court police expect a smaller but still very substantial 38% annual increase in threats this year, which follows a 25% increase last year.

I will say that that’s an extremely difficult question for a pretty obvious reason, I think, which is that I don’t think that you would want an enforcement system that was controlled by the executive branch or by the legislature.

I don’t think that it’s so much a problem anymore.

I don’t think that you would want an enforcement system that was controlled by the executive branch or by the legislature.

I first joined the court in 2010. Our security was very different at the time.

The Capitol Police Chief recently testified that threats against Congress are up 50% this year.

These statements are really unhelpful, they are dangerous in terms of individual justices’ security and they’re not appropriate in the way to treat a coordinate branch of government.

After today, a Secretary can announce to the world that she didn’t consult with anyone—more, that she didn’t evaluate country conditions at all—before making, extending, or terminating a TPS designation.