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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
John Bowden

Josh Hawley attacks Democrats for not providing security to Supreme Court justices at ethics row hearing

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Josh Hawley thundered at Democrats on Tuesday as he portrayed the recent revelations regarding expensive gifts that a sitting Supreme Court justice had accepted from a conservative donor as nothing but partisan hype.

And he argued instead that it was Democrats who were responsible for not protecting the integrity of the nation’s highest court by providing for adequate security for the Court’s justices — even though President Joe Biden had done just that when he signed a bill into law extending security to the family of justices last summer.

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