It’s been more than a month since the Senate passed a new bill that would enhance safety and security for Supreme Court justices by unanimous consent. During that time, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has attempted to accomplish the same feat in the House several times and he did so again yesterday. But Speaker Nancy Pelosi once again shot down the request. She’s sticking to the same excuse she’s used all along, but at this point, it has long since become obvious that the Speaker is engaging in a delaying tactic for political purposes. And last night, McCarthy called her out for it. “You’re trying to delay it,” he said. “That’s exactly what you’re doing.” (National Review)

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Monday expressed frustration after House Democrats declined his third request for unanimous consent to quickly advance a bill to increase security for Supreme Court justices.

McCarthy has tried several times over the past week to advance the measure — which passed the Senate last month but has stalled in the Democrat-controlled House — after authorities foiled an alleged assassination attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh on Wednesday.

“For the 3rd time in a week, I’m calling for a vote for stronger security for Supreme Court Justices—ALL of them,” McCarthy said on Twitter. “This isn’t partisan. The threat is real. Why is Speaker Pelosi blocking something that the Senate has already passed unanimously?”

In the time since the bill first passed in the Senate, the number of threats received against the conservative justices has skyrocketed. Nicholas John Roske was arrested on his way to try to assassinate Brett Kavanaugh. And anti-abortion activists attempted to stage an insurrection by shutting down the operation of the Supreme Court. (Hey… if you can call January 6 an insurrection, then this was an insurrection also.)

The argument that Pelosi and the Democrats are sticking with is that the bill should also include the same level of protection for staff members who work for the justices. It’s an attempt at virtue signaling, implying that they care even more about the lives of everyone at the Supreme Court.

Of course, there are two major flaws in that supposed logic and they should be obvious even to the casual observer. The first is the fact that covering every clerk and staff remember at the court would drive up the manpower and cost requirements by at least a factor of ten, if not more. It’s highly unlikely that you could even find that many qualified security personnel to go to work on short notice even if the cost was no object.

But more to the point, who do you suppose is lurking out there thinking to themselves that they could somehow prevent the decision in Dobbs from being handed down if they murdered a clerk? Have any of the clerks and other staff members received any death threats? Here’s a better question. How many of you can even name one of the clerks at the Supreme Court unless you’re a personal friend or family member of one of them?

There aren’t any maniacs out there hunting down the person responsible for restocking the coffee filters at the Supreme Court building. The maniacal pro-abortion extremists are gunning for the Chief Justice and the five Associate Justices who were appointed by Republicans. Nobody is going after Sotomayor, Kagan or Breyer. The fact that Chuck Schumer’s devotees have helpfully posted all of their home addresses online has made the job all the easier. As a side note, I just Googled the names of a couple of SCOTUS clerks (who I obviously won’t name here) and did a search to see if their addresses are available. There isn’t a peep about them except in their own, private social media accounts.

I’m not sure who Nancy Pelosi thinks she’s scoring points with by doing this. The only sane people who would possibly object to this are the ones hoping for a clear shot at any of the justices who might have voted the “wrong” way in Dobbs. And they’re already going to be voting for the Democrats anyway, assuming they’re not in jail and ineligible to vote.