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SCOTUS Asks For More Security, Graham’s Sister Sworn In, Parasite Spreads Across US: AM Update 7/15

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Collins Calls Out Schumer for Inflaming SCOTUS Threats

SCOTUS Asks For More Security, Graham’s Sister Sworn In, Pa… · Jul 15, 2026 Government

Senator Susan Collins publicly called out Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer for a 2020 speech where he singled out Gorsuch and Kavanaugh by name outside the Supreme Court, warning they would 'pay the price.' Collins argued rhetoric from elected officials on both sides is directly dangerous — not just irresponsible.

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Barrett's Bulletproof Vest and the Personal Cost of the Bench

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Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a mother of seven, brought the abstract danger of the court's security crisis into human scale. She described the night her security detail sent her home with a bulletproof vest during the most intense period of threats following the Dobbs leak — how she set it on her bedroom table, turned around, and found her 12-year-old son standing in the doorway asking what it was. 'I didn't expect that performing this service was gonna put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was,' Barrett said. She also disclosed her home had recently been the target of a swatting attack — a hoax that sends armed police units rushing to a victim's address under false pretenses. Senator Susan Collins used the hearing to directly call out Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, pointing to his 2020 speech outside the Supreme Court where he named Gorsuch and Kavanaugh by name and warned they would 'pay the price' — rhetoric Collins argued had no place coming from a senior public official and helped fuel the hostility the court now faces.

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