This is a libertarian podcast from the Hoover Institution.

I'm your host Tom Church, and I'm here with the Libertarian, Professor Richard Epstein.

Richard is the Peter and Kirsten Bedford Senior Fellow here at the Hoover Institution. He's the Lawrence A Tish Professor of Law at

at NYU and is a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago. Richard, we're talking on

Thursday yesterday, a man was arrested near Supreme Court

Justice Kavanaugh's home on an attempted murder charge. I'm not going to

dignify the gunman with his name but he was a 26-year-old man who traveled all

the way from California to Justice Kavanaugh's home, he found the address online.

He was apparently upset over the leaked draft of the upcoming Dobbs case that might overturn Roe v. Wade. Now after the leak

occurred back earlier in the year the Senate actually put together a bill called the

Supreme Court Police Parity Act, which would give enhanced security to

Supreme Court justices just like other high-ranking executives and legislative officers.

It was passed unanimously in the Senate, yet it hasn't moved at all in the House.

Now, I want to know what do you think about the bill as a remedy for people apparently willing

to harm Supreme Court justices?

Well, I think the word remedy is too strong.

What you're trying to do is to change the odds

and to do so in the most effective and expeditious way possible.

I think that the bill is extremely well crafted to the extent what it does is it takes the standard set of practices that I use for the president and the vice president and major people inside the government

and extended to Supreme Court justices.

I don't regard them as political actors,

but too many people do.

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