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 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.

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.

I know have some significant concerns.

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.

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.

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