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Marshalls Discouraged from Arresting SCOTUS Protestors
[Epoch Times] A Senate Republican revealed during a March 28 budget hearing that an internal Department of Justice (DOJ) memo dissuaded U.S. Marshals from arresting protestors in violation of laws against picketing the homes of judges. The materials (pdf) revealed during the hearing show that U.S. Marshals were explicitly directed to not arrest protestors at the homes of Supreme Court (SCOTUS) justices. But Britt said the newly uncovered materials used to train Marshals to protect the homes of SCOTUS justices show that they were "actively discouraged" from making arrests on grounds of this statute."Those materials show that the Marshals likely didn’t make any arrests because they were actively discouraged from doing so," she said. The training materials told the Marshals "to avoid, unless absolutely necessary, any criminal enforcement action involving the protestors." Marshals were also told that "making arrests and initiating prosecutions is not the goal of the [Marshal Service] presence at SCOTUS residences." "The ’not’ is actually italicized and underlined," Britt noted. Posted by: Bobby 2023-03-31 |
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