Monday, January 12, 2026

Is that a gun in your pocket, your honor?

The Wall St. Journal has Help Federal Judges Protect Themselves, by Judge Elizabeth Branch (11th Cir.) and Robert Wilkins (D.C. Cir.), in which they write:

we support the Protect Our Prosecutors and Judges Act, introduced by Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas. The bill would allow federal judges and prosecutors who have completed law-enforcement firearms training in their home jurisdiction to carry concealed guns across state lines.