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To: libstripper

And another project should be to increase the security of Supreme Court justices 10 fold if necessary to ensure they can eat dinner in public or whatever else they want to do. And enforce the laws already on the books.


65 posted on 07/11/2022 7:17:45 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: Midwesterner53
!8 US Code ยง1507 provides:

Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.(Emphasis added.)

Please note that this statute, in the emphasized language, refers to any demonstration in or near any "such building," with the term "such building" referring back to the statutory language "building or residence occupied or used by such judge." Thus all the judge needs to be doing is using a building for picketing and demonstrating outside of that building to be prohibited if the purpose of the picketing or demonstrating is to influence the judge's decision in any given case. That looks like it would clearly apply to Justice Kavanaugh having dinner inside of the restaurant, the restaurant clearly being a "building."

78 posted on 07/11/2022 10:06:00 AM PDT by libstripper
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