Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett has revealed that she was told by her security detail to wear a bulletproof vest around the time a draft of the court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org — which overturned Roe v. Wade — was published by Politico.
“I carried it into my house, put it into my bedroom, dropped it down on a table, turned around, and my 12-year-old son was standing in the doorway of my bedroom, and he wanted to know what it was and why I had it,” Barrett told a House appropriations subcommittee.
“And I didn’t know how to respond because, maybe I lack imagination, but I didn’t expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was, and why I had to wear one.”
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