FOR SAFETY'S SAKE, THE SCOTUS CLOSED ITS MAIN ENTRANCE. I THINK THEY WERE AFRAID OF A JIHADO-TERROR ATTACK.

NYTIMES:

In a decision ripe with symbolism about access to justice in the age of terror, the Supreme Court announced on Monday that visitors to its courthouse will no longer be allowed to enter through the front door.

Leina'ala Fruean of Hawaii, on Monday embraced Leon K. Siu after she became the last visitor to the front door at the Supreme Court building.

And it is not just any front door. For decades, people with cases before the court, their lawyers and those who just came to see the arguments have climbed the grand steps arrayed in front of the courthouse’s marble columns, passed under the inscribed words “Equal Justice Under the Law” and walked through a passage flanked by two six-ton bronze doors that show historic scenes in the development of the law.

Starting Tuesday, visitors will be directed instead to ground-level side entrances under the stairs that will lead them to what an announcement from the court called “a secure, reinforced area to screen for weapons, explosives, and chemical and biological hazards.”

Justice Stephen G. Breyer issued an unusual statement, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, expressing regret about the court’s decision.

“Writers and artists regularly use the steps to represent the ideal that anyone in this country may obtain meaningful justice through application to this court,” Justice Breyer wrote. “And the steps appear in countless photographs commemorating famous arguments or other moments of historical importance.”

Indeed, on his nomination to the Supreme Court in 2005, John G. Roberts Jr., now the chief justice of the United States, reflected on his own experiences as a Supreme Court advocate.

“I always got a lump in my throat whenever I walked up those marble steps to argue a case before the court,” Judge Roberts said. “And I don’t think it was just from the nerves.”

In his statement on Monday, Justice Breyer suggested that security concerns did not warrant the closing the front entrance.

“To my knowledge, and I have spoken to numerous jurists and architects worldwide,” he said, “no other Supreme Court in the world — including those, such as Israel’s, that face security concerns equal to or greater than ours — has closed its main entrance to the public.”

Visitors, once screened, will still be allowed to leave through the front door.

WHY IS THE COURT CLOSING ITS FROMT DOOR?

• IS IT THREATENED BY TEABAGGERS?
• BY THE KKK?
• BY NEOCONS, THE GOP OR THE ISRAEL LOBBY?
• NO.
• IT'S THE JIHAD, STUPID. BUT THEY WON'T ADMIT IT.

WHY WOULD THE SCOTUS BE A TARGET? THEY'VE MADE SOME WACKY DECISIONS WHICH HAVE ACTUALLY HELPED THE ENEMY, HAVEN'T THEY?

• IT'S THE IMAGES OF MOHAMMED ON THE SCOTUS BUILDING, IMHO.

• THIS WAS PREDICTED IN 2006. SEE HERE AND HERE.
  

• AND IT WAS MENTIONED AGAIN LAST MONTH HERE.

ISLAM IS THE ENEMY OF EVERYTHING THE WEST AND THE FREE WORLD HOLDS SACRED.

THEY HAVE FORCED US TO CHANGE OUR DAILY LIVES AND LIVE IN TERROR.

IT'S TIME WE STOPPED APPEASING THE JIHADISTS - AND WIPED THEM OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. WHATEVER IT TAKES. THE SOONER THE BETTER.