Supreme Court justice describes wearing bulletproof vest and ‘swatting’ hoax at home

Kagan, meanwhile, testified that the Supreme Court police expected a 38% rise in security threats this year, adding: "For some of us, those threats have come very close, and all of us live with the knowledge that they may again materialise."The threat level is really high," Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a conservative, said on Tuesday during a rare public appearance by members of the court before the House committee.

Two US Supreme Court justices have been lobbying Congress for millions in extra security funding for themselves and their colleagues to help protect them from a rise in threats to their safety.