Unaccountable Supreme Court Builds Armed Force – The Monday AM Quickie 6/29/26

By Whitney Curry Wimbish — Jun 29, 2026

I only have two hit points left after a series of bad decisions at D&D this weekend. -Whitney

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THE BIG NEWS

Unaccountable Supreme Court Builds Armed Force

The ultraconservative unelected lawyers who rule over America for life are spending an increasingly astronomical amount of tax dollars on protecting themselves from the consequences of their unpopular and deadly rulings, according to Politico. They are throwing money at security, essentially building their own army by more than doubling the number of agents and officers assigned to protect them and the Supreme Court building. The spending is causing the Supreme Court’s budget to skyrocket; between 2022 and 2027, it increased 114 percent, from $98.3 million to $210.3 million. The court is pushing an aggressive recruitment campaign with slick videos of officers walking in slow-mo with assault rifles and attack dogs, with the goal of luring Americans into protecting the very people who are in the process of destroying their right to healthcare and more. Per Politico:

“Every detail has an armored vehicle. All nine of them, every justice, rides in an armored vehicle,” Special Agent Rob Smith of the court’s Dignitary Protection Unit said at an online recruiting session last year . “They’re about 8- to 10,000 pounds, depending on which model you’re driving. They do drive a little bit differently than your normal Yukon or Suburban SUV, so it can be a little bit challenging.”

The array of tasks Supreme Court Police are expected to perform has expanded. At one Federalist Society dinner that drew several justices to Union Station a few years ago, journalists escorted to a balcony high above the event were startled to see they were sharing it with a Supreme Court Police SWAT team camped out with assault rifles and scopes.

The high court’s police force also now includes a Protective Intelligence Unit to analyze threats against the justices, a K-9 unit, a Nuclear, Biological and Chemical team and more.

There are signs of strain from the sheer size of the high court’s security-focused hiring spree. The budget request for the coming fiscal year asks for five more administrative positions “to support significant growth within the Department.”

And with physical space at the 91-year-old Supreme Court building essentially capped, court officials are looking for room elsewhere, asking Congress for $2 million to set up an “off-site… regional command post” to coordinate protection for the justices’ homes. Budget documents also describe the planned remote base as “a redundant police operation center to maintain all vital security programs in case of disruption.”

At the court, evidence of the new focus on security is on display, but not obtrusive. There are more surveillance cameras and more doors secured with digital keypads, as opposed to just lock and key.

Cybersecurity is also being stepped up. The high court’s current budget request seeks a dozen more staffers to “defend against quickly evolving cyber threats.”

The fine print of another budget document revealed that the court undertook a “secure printing project” in 2023 or 2024. That was shortly after a Supreme Court investigation into the Dobbs leak reached an inconclusive result and urged adoption of “tracking mechanisms” for the court’s printers and copiers.

The court has also been keen to wean itself off of Marshals Service protection. The marshals willingly took on the assignment of guarding justices’ homes, but it shifted them away from their other core task: arresting criminals. In 2024, the marshals scaled back a major operation pursuing fugitives, conducting it in 10 cities instead of the 20 targeted the previous year, in part because of the burdens of guarding the justices.

This frankly infuriating news about nine people we didn’t elect comes after the rulings they handed down last week, which will very literally cause the unnecessary deaths of millions of people, as Corey wrote on Friday. The justices blessed Trump’s ethnic cleansing campaign by cancelling Protected Humanitarian Status for 1.3 million immigrants, who are in the country legally; ended the internationally guaranteed right to asylum; struck down Hawaii’s gun control law; and squashed cancer victims’ claims against poison-maker Monsanto. And now, after all that, after their deadly Dobbs decision, after sitting comfy in their lifetime jobs while the rest of us get laid off because of AI, they want to spend our taxes on protecting themselves.

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SOME NUMBER

400

That’s roughly how many local newspapers sued Sam Altman’s OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright theft, alleging the companies “systematically copied copyrighted reporting” to develop their odious large language artificial intelligence products, including ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, products nobody wants because they provide incorrect info and allegedly make or help users kill themselves, multiple other lawsuits claim.

ON THE SHOW TODAY

6/29: Sam is hosting solo today and his guests are Sufia Khalid, deputy director of the National Security Criminal Defense Center at the Muslim Legal Fund of America. Khalid represents one of the Prairieland Nine, a group of anti-ICE protesters in Texas who were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in jail after federal prosecutors accused them of being an “antifa terror cell”; and Chris Geidner, journalist and publisher of the Law Dork newsletter on Substack. Geidner will discuss the recent SCOTUS rulings.

DON'T MISS MR CLIPS‌

Dave Rubin Tries To Outsmart John C. Reilly...Fails

“Suicidal empathy.” Lol ok Dave.

Is Trump Terminally Ill?

Hey, wait, I thought we weren’t supposed to be empathetic. Dave Rubin, can you help me out with this? No? You can’t? Hey, wait, where are you going? You’re leaving?!?!?

PARTING WORDS

“Everybody’s sick of you. Even the two Jews on this call are sick of you.”

– Trump, in a February call to Benjamin Netanyahu after Israel bombed Doha. Trump’s negotiators, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, were listening on the line. The quote is contained in the new book Regime Change, which the FT favorably reviewed this weekend; the review did not mention that the authors, NYT reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, kept secret crucial pieces of information, which the US public had a right to know when it happened, so they could save it for their book. For example, last April, the administration considered suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants. But Haberman and Swan didn’t say anything about it until this month, more than a year later, when they used the info as a teaser to get people to the bookstore. It’s a good marketing strategy: the two sold 150,000 copies of Regime Change on its first day of sales last week, so many that publisher Simon & Schuster ordered another 150,000 copies to meet the demand. But me personally? I resent everything about this little event in American Letters, and while I want to read it, I’m certainly not going to spend a single cent to do so. A hardcover copy ranges from $24 to $34, depending on where you buy it; on the low end that’s $7.2 million extracted from our collective pockets. Personally, I think they had an obligation to report major news as it happened. So personally, I’ll get it from the library.

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