The U.S. Supreme Court announced, yesterday, that it was closing its grand front entrance – up the marble steps to enter the building under the facade that says "Equal Justice Under Law" -- to the arriving public. Instead, citing security reasons, visitors will have to enter a side entrance and go through screening devices that can check for "weapons, explosives and chemical and biological hazards," the court said in its statement. (See also L.A. Times article )
Several publications have noted Supreme Court Justices Breyer and Ginsberg's statement objecting to the plan, calling the change unfortunate and unjustified. Breyer said no other high court in the world, not even Israel's, has closed its front entrance over security concerns…The main entrance and front steps "are not only a means to, but also a metaphor for, access to the court itself."
As several articles have noted, however, the building's remodeling & renovations, in general, along with the new entrance, grew out of two independent security studies in 2001 and 2009. (Here )
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