As if to demonstrate that they can get off their duffs when circumstances so require, congressional Republicans moved swiftly Wednesday to demand action on a measure to protect U.S. Supreme Court justices from the threat of violence.
They were responding to the arrest of an armed man outside the Maryland home of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh. Within minutes of the arrest, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was on the Senate floor demanding that the House pass a bill increasing security protections for Supreme Court justices and their families "before the sun sets today."
"House Democrats need to stop their multiweek blockade against the Supreme Court security bill," McConnell said.
