{"id":763097,"date":"2026-07-14T21:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763097\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:18:09","slug":"supreme-court-justices-facing-spike-in-threats-they-tell-us-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763097\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court justices facing spike in threats, they tell US lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told lawmakers Tuesday that a sharp increase in threats targeting her and other justices is increasingly encroaching on their personal and family lives.<\/p>\n

During a rare appearance by justices before Congress, Barrett said she had to take a bulletproof vest home a few years ago, something she struggled to explain to her 12-year-old son.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t expect that performing this service would put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was, why I had to wear one,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She and Justice Elena Kagan testified before appropriations panels in the House and Senate in support of a request to increase security funding for members of the nation\u2019s highest court.<\/p>\n

Judges around the country have seen a rise in threats of violence and intimidation, including fake emergency number calls to trigger police raids and pizza deliveries in the name of a judge\u2019s murdered son.<\/p>\n

\"USUS Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan (left) and Amy Coney Barrett testify during a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services hearing on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Photo: AFP<\/p>\n

Kagan condemned political rhetoric that turned up the temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett told lawmakers Tuesday that a sharp increase in threats targeting her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,84789,326467,860,221810,1340,12,10500,326468,314580,3,326466,5614,15304,326465,21,19,22,20,25,326464,6046,24],"class_list":["post-763097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-amy-coney-barrett","tag-bulletproof-vest","tag-charleston","tag-chief-justice-john-roberts","tag-congress","tag-donald-trump","tag-elena-kagan","tag-federal-judges","tag-justice-brett-kavanaugh","tag-news","tag-roe-vs-wade","tag-south-carolina","tag-supreme-court","tag-swatting-calls","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-marshals-service","tag-us-president","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}