Protecting the Justices
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
The Heritage Foundation
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🗓️ 9 June 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
This week a man angry about the leaked Dobbs opinion showed up to Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home with a gun, a knife, burglary tools, and the intent to kill the Justice. Despite this, to the Justices' credit, they are working just as hard as ever resolving orders and issuing four opinions. You hosts discuss the assassination attempt, talk about noteworthy orders, and unpack those opinions. Zack also interviews Supreme Court advocate Morgan Ratner, who clerked for both Kavanaugh and the Chief Justice. Finally, curious about whether other Justices have been similarly targeted, your hosts look at the history of attacks against them.
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| 0:00.0 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it please the court. |
| 0:06.1 | I'm John Carlo Canoparo. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Zach Smith. |
| 0:09.0 | And welcome to SCOTUS 101, where we break down what's happening at the Supreme Court, |
| 0:13.9 | what the justices are up to, and other things related to our favorite branch of government. |
| 0:20.9 | Welcome to another episode of SCOTUS 101. |
| 0:24.4 | Things are starting to pick up at the court as we get nearer to the end of the term, but we |
| 0:29.7 | still haven't gotten any of the blockbuster cases yet. |
| 0:33.7 | We did get some really disturbing news this week, however. As you probably know, the conservative |
| 0:39.9 | justices have been beset by protesters coming to their homes since the Dobbs leak. On Wednesday, |
| 0:46.4 | at about 2 a.m., the marshals protecting Justice Kavanaugh and his family arrested a man |
| 0:51.3 | who showed up at his home with a gun, a knife, and burglary tools. |
| 0:55.3 | He told police that he had come there to kill Kavanaugh because of the Dobbs case. |
| 1:00.5 | This is beyond the pale. |
| 1:02.9 | The president, the attorney general, even Judge Katanji Brown Jackson, who will soon be |
| 1:07.4 | a Supreme Court justice herself, have refused to condemn protests at the |
| 1:11.5 | justice's homes. Given liberal's superheated rhetoric about the Supreme Court, you probably remember |
| 1:17.0 | Senator Chuck Schumer's threats back in 2020, it's really not surprising that some deranged |
| 1:22.8 | lunatic tried to get violent, but this needs to stop before one of them gets further than the |
| 1:27.8 | Justice's front yard. Yeah, absolutely. You know, this was disturbing news, and I hope everyone, |
| 1:33.4 | on a bipartisan basis, will condemn this type of action. On to slightly better news, we do have |
| 1:40.9 | one new grant since our last episode. It's in the case of Wilkins v. United States. |
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