Knowing that they may not be able to trust a US Marshall Service operated by the MAGAfied Justice Department, a number of federal judges this spring began considering the idea of standing up and managing their own armed security service, the Wall Street Journal reports.
The idea is not wholly without precedent as the US Supreme Court’s police department – which protects the Supreme Court building and the nine justices – operates wholly under the Judicial Branch and reports to the Chief Justice. The problem however is politics and it may be difficult if not impossible to take the vital function of protecting judges away from the executive branch since it would take Congress agreeing to remove a cudgel available to Trump. Then there’s the question of whether such a move would allow the Marshall’s Service to conduct contempt arrests without it going through the Justice Department, almost certainly a non-starter in an era when the Trump Regime’s lackeys regularly defy court orders not to deport certain individuals.