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27 Democrats voted against bill that would protect Supreme Court justices

June 15, 2022 | | Print Article

(Video: Fox News)

The House of Representatives voted to approve added security for families of Supreme Court justices after more than a month of delays, but unlike the unanimous approval from the Senate, the lower chamber still found cause to put partisanship ahead of common sense with 27 members voting against the bill.

On Tuesday, almost a full week after a 26-year-old suspect was arrested for threatening to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the House passed the Supreme Court Police Parity Act of 2022 by a vote of 396-27 and it is now set to be sent to President Joe Biden. Those opposed were exclusively Democrats including many outspoken members of the progressive wing of the party.

Nearly all members of the “Squad” voted against the added protections including Reps. Jamaal Bowman (NY), Cori Bush (MO), Ayanna Pressley (MA), Rashida Tlaib (MI), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY).

According to Fox News, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) explained the delay as relating to a desire to add further protections as set forth in an alternative bill proposed by Rep. Greg Stanton (D-AZ). Stanton’s legislation would have gone further than the initial measure by extending security to court employees, including clerks.

Senate Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) expressed that that would not make it through the Senate, “The security issue is related to Supreme Court justices, not nameless staff that no one knows.”

Ocasio-Cortez had stood firm about opposing the measure in light of the threat against Kavanaugh as she tried to use the safety of the court as a bargaining chip to promote her desired gun control legislation.

“I wake up this morning and I start to hear murmurs that there is going to be an attempt to pass the Supreme Court Supplemental Protection Bill the day after gun safety legislation for schools and kids and people is stalled,” she said. “Oh, so we can pass protections for us and here easily, right? But we can’t pass protections for everyday people? I think not.”

 

Ocasio-Cortez reportedly maintained that stance in her vote against the legislation and was cited as saying, “It’s just preposterous how quickly this body will move to protect itself, and how slowly we move to protect children and people in grocery stores.”

However, the New York lawmaker’s claim that Congress moved swiftly to remedy this lapse in security is far from the truth. According to a 2021 report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) the United States Marshals Service (USMS), which is tasked with the defense of the American justice system, lacked the resources necessary to combat threats that had spiked by 81 percent since 2016.

By 2020, the USMS had well over 30,000 officials to protect across 94 districts, including federal prosecutors, court officials, and federal judges while performing their duties. “While the USMS has recently undertaken several important initiatives to address shortcomings in its judicial security capabilities, the USMS continues to face several serious challenges in its effort to fulfill its statutory responsibilities in this area.”

Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) and Mark Warner (D-VA) were reportedly looking to add $10.3 million in funding to the USMS and $9 million to the Supreme Court Police.

Here is the full list of lawmakers who voted ‘no’:

Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio
Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y.
Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo.
Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas
Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y.
Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia, D-Texas
Rep. Joshua Gottheimer, D-N.J.
Rep. Raúl Grijalva, D-Ariz.
Rep. Steven Horsford, D-Nev.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash.
Rep. Brenda Lawrence, D-Mich.
Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-N.J.
Rep. Marie Newman, D-Ill.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J.
Rep. Donald Payne, D-N.J.
Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo.
Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J.
Rep. Albio Sires, D-N.J.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.
Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif.,
Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y.
Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.
Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-N.J.

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8 thoughts on “27 Democrats voted against bill that would protect Supreme Court justices”

  1. Demo-rats are anti-American and so is anyone who votes for a demo-rat! They are as much the enemy as anyone we ever fought in a war and much more dangerous as they are already here! America can only fall from with-in!

  2. The nimrods who voted against protecting the Supreme Court justices should immediately have their security revoked. No taxpayers money should be spent on their security. Any bodyguards they hire will be paid by them personally. No campaign money or private donations used as payment. There is something mentally wrong with each of these individuals. They do not deserve to be representing anyone.
    Who was the person who leaked the opinion to Politico? Why isn’t that traitor already in jail?

  3. They wouldn’t need additional protections if the Justice Department would enforce the existing law that makes it illegal to protest outside a Justice’s home. Yet Merck Garland, the FBI, Biden and all the Democrats ignore Federal law, even after an assassination attempt. Just like they ignored the riots in the summer of 2020 that did billions in property damage across dozens of states, injured over 700 police and killed at least 19 innocent people. But walk into the Capital on Jan. 6 (when some doors were opened by Capital police), where there were zero weapons found, no fires, and the only person killed on that day was an unarmed female veteran then you get a year and a half in a D.C. gulag with no bail and no due process and await sentencing for a “made up” charge of sedition. This is worse than what happens in Russia or the CCP.

  4. The American people have had to put up with these radical leftists, the worst being AOC and the squat squad, long enough. Elect reps that will hold them accountable for their actions and vote to censor and expel, from the House, those that continue to advocate the overthrow of our system of government. They push for civil unrest and anarchy, but try to prosecute anyone that resists or opposes their eccentricities.

  6. They should all lose their taxpayer provided security. These scum, are destroying this country from within, and all of them come from “safe” districts where they keep getting re-elected.

  7. Well these bastards vote not to protect the Supreme Court Justices .
    But demand protection for themselves .
    Well then how about 8-10 expert snippers shadowing this bunch and see the game change .

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