Judges & Justices

So, I don't know. I think he probably won't come back.

Honestly, the vibes in the courtroom were the vibes in the courtroom on any other day.

It was sort of like….from the court's point of view, a non-event.

You just have to deal with the fact that there's a conservative court doing things that conservative jurists have long thought it appropriate to do, and I can really dislike that.

Tariffs is probably the key policy issue for this president. I mean, something he campaigned on, he ran on, he cared an enormous amount about.

I don't see this as a court that is just like, 'We're just going to rubber stamp what the current administration does.' You know, quite the opposite.

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.

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 know have some significant concerns.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

The references—of filth, disease, and primitiveness—are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes.