GOP senators push invoice to extend jail time for Supreme Court intimidation

Republican senators are pushing a invoice to extend the punishment for anybody who intimidates Supreme Court justices.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, Tennessee Republican, launched the laws with 10 different GOP senators. It would improve the time in jail from one yr to 5 years for anybody convicted of making an attempt to affect judicial decision-making.

“As we saw last summer, the woke liberal mob will go to great lengths to target those they disagree with — even illegally intimidating Supreme Court justices at their private residences,” Ms. Blackburn mentioned. “It’s extremely concerning that none of these protesters have been arrested for breaking the law, and the DOJ has not issued any guidance on enforcing this statute.”

She was joined by Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, each of Texas; Roger Wicker and Cindy Hyde-Smith, each of Mississippi; Tom Cotton and John Bookman, each of Arkansas; Bill Hagerty of Tennessee; Katie Britt of Alabama; Marco Rubio of Florida; and Josh Hawley of Missouri.

The laws comes a yr after an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion from the excessive court docket that exposed the justices have been poised to overturn 1973’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade, which established a nationwide proper to abortion.

The leak of the opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was the primary time a full draft opinion had been leaked within the Supreme Court’s 233-year historical past.

The forewarning of the court docket’s determination on abortion outraged pro-choice activists, who started protesting outdoors the houses of conservative justices.