US Marshals ordered not to arrest illegal protesters at Supreme Court justice's homes 'unless absolutely necessary'

According to 18 U.S. Code § 1507: "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."

Last year when collars were hot with protests, the U.S. Marshals Service which was sent to protect the homes of Supreme Court justices was told to refrain from arresting protesters "unless absolutely necessary," training documents obtained by the office of Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) revealed.

"Avoid, unless absolutely necessary, criminal enforcement action involving the protest or protestors, particularly on public space," one portion of the training said. By 'absolutely necessary,' one can only imagine a conservative justice being held at gunpoint of assaulted physically with a tire iron.

A whistleblower "concerned about the attorney general’s misleading testimony before the Judiciary Committee" provided Britt's office with the documents, according to a spokesperson who spoke to Politico.

Substandard Attorney General Merrick Garland assigned the U.S. Marshals Service to the homes of Supreme Court justices last summer following protests after the decision in the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade was leaked.

The protests that broke out after the leak clearly violated federal law prohibiting protests outside a judge's home that intend to influence a verdict. Garland had earlier claimed that U.S. Marshals "have full authority to arrest people under any federal statute, including that federal statute," but he was just kidding.

According to the training materials, Department of Justice lawyers seemingly concluded that applying the statute to peaceful protests directed at the justices could potentially violate the First Amendment. So the left defined "peaceful" the way CNN defined it during the George Floyd riots. Unless you can see a lot of blood, it was "mostly peaceful."

"The ‘intent of influencing any judge’ language thus logically goes to threats and intimidation, not 1st [Amendment] protected protest activities," according to the leftist training materials, which noted that arrests should be made only as a "last resort to present physical harm to the Justices and/or their families." Not to their homes or their possessions, it implied.

Britt presented the training protocol to Garland during a congressional hearing Tuesday, during which the impotent, whiney attorney general claimed never to have seen the slides before, according to Politico.

He told Britt he did not wish to amend his previous statement regarding U.S. Marshals being empowered to arrest protesters for violating the federal statute regarding intimidating judges.

"There’s nothing for me to amend because, as I said, I’ve never seen those slides before," the failed AG said.

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