Are they waiting for someone to get killed?

I   started writing this before Tuesday’s vote in the House of Representative to increase security for Supreme Court justices’ families. All along I was thinking, “What’s the hold-up?”
    A Senate version of the bill was passed in May, three days after Politico published a leaked document indicating Roe vs. Wade would be overturned. That’s the case in 1973 that has led to abortion on demand in many parts of the country, and took away states’ rights to enact legislation dealing with the main issue of abortion within their own borders.
        The leaked information, if true, will give decisions on abortion back to the states, and pro-abortion advocates have taken to the streets and organizing protests in front of justices’ homes.
        The bill being discussed in Congress would expand security measures now in place that cover the justices, as well as the court’s officers and employees.
    It’s bad enough that we even need laws protecting our justices. In fact, there is federal law in place for that, however the U.S. Justice Department is not taking action, so far, on removing people from in front of their homes. Notably, the only ones facing these demonstrations are conservatives—ones who could vote for overturning Roe.
    Here is the statute at issue, passed in 1950—Title 18, Section 1507, of the U.S. Code. It says that it is illegal, “with the intent of influencing any judge,” to picket or parade “in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer or with such intent,” to resort “to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence.”
    Seems pretty clear to me, and there have been court cases upholding the law.
    But some groups have gone even further, targeting justices’ families and young children. A group called Ruth Sent Us, supposedly acting in former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s name, published where Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s children attend school just after the arrest of a man June 8 who had threatened to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
    Strangely, President Biden or White House officials have not condemned either the assassination threat or the publishing of justices’ addresses or information on their children. It’s good to see both houses of Congress getting on board to protect our leaders, but unfortunately, the delay was all politically motivated.