{"id":161094,"date":"2026-08-20T15:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/20\/antonin-scalia-wouldve-hated-todays-supreme-court-security-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T15:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T23:14:21","slug":"antonin-scalia-wouldve-hated-todays-supreme-court-security-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/08\/20\/antonin-scalia-wouldve-hated-todays-supreme-court-security-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonin Scalia Would\u2019ve Hated Today\u2019s Supreme Court Security Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

He really enjoyed driving, so the restrictions today\u2019s justices are subject to would have frustrated him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> Christopher Scalia<\/a>, one of the late Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s nine children, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning how his father might have felt about the security restrictions placed on today\u2019s Supreme Court justices. The elder Scalia was reportedly \u201cknown to drive fast\u201d and drove himself to the high court each day from his home in the Virginia suburbs. In a National Review<\/a> article published earlier this week, Christopher Scalia recalled that \u201cfor much of his time on the court, our home address and phone number were listed in the phone book.\u201d That level of accessibility would be virtually unthinkable for a Supreme Court justice today, amid heightened security concerns and threats against members of the Court.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Antonin Scalia Would\u2019ve Hated Today\u2019s Supreme Court Security Restrictions<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

He really enjoyed driving, so the restrictions today\u2019s justices are subject to would have frustrated him<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/i><\/span> Christopher Scalia<\/a>, one of the late Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s nine children, in comments given to the ABA Journal<\/a>, concerning how his father might have felt about the security restrictions placed on today\u2019s Supreme Court justices. The elder Scalia was reportedly \u201cknown to drive fast\u201d and drove himself to the high court each day from his home in the Virginia suburbs. In a National Review<\/a> article published earlier this week, Christopher Scalia recalled that \u201cfor much of his time on the court, our home address and phone number were listed in the phone book.\u201d That level of accessibility would be virtually unthinkable for a Supreme Court justice today, amid heightened security concerns and threats against members of the Court.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a> is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Bluesky<\/a>, X\/Twitter<\/a>, and Threads<\/a>, or connect with her on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Antonin Scalia Would\u2019ve Hated Today\u2019s Supreme Court Security Restrictions<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. He really enjoyed driving, so the restrictions today\u2019s justices are subject to would have frustrated him. \u2014 Christopher Scalia, one of the late Justice Antonin Scalia\u2019s nine children, in comments given to the ABA Journal, concerning how his father might have felt about the security […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":161095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Staci-Zaretsky-jDjnK3.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}