Usha Vance Has Two Former Bosses on the Supreme Court and What She Said About Their Safety Stopped the Room

The left has spent two years turning Supreme Court justices into personal targets.

Now the woman who clerked for two of them just went on national television — and told America enough is enough.

Usha Vance isn't a pundit or a politician, and what she said carries weight that neither of those things could.

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Usha Vance clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals.

She didn't read about them in the news.

She worked alongside them.

And when ABC News anchor Linsey Davis asked her point-blank whether she agreed with Roberts that personal attacks on judges had become dangerous, Usha Vance didn't hedge.

"I have a lot of respect for the justices," she said. "I think that they have a hard and challenging job being in the public eye."

She went further.

"I do want people to treat them with respect," Vance said. "I'm hopeful that people will continue to treat them with a sense of humanity – and without the kind of anger that's led to some attacks on judges."

That last phrase matters.

She said attacks on judges – plural, past tense, already happened.

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You already know what the left did to these justices.

Brett Kavanaugh had a man show up at his home in the middle of the night armed with a gun, zip ties, and a knife – driven there by left-wing rage over the Dobbs decision.

Protesters surrounded the private homes of sitting justices for months – a federal crime that the Biden Justice Department refused to prosecute.

Chief Justice Roberts was so alarmed by the escalating threats that he warned publicly in March that the rise in personal attacks was "dangerous and has got to stop."

The left's response was to keep going.

The same media that spent years lecturing you about "threats to democracy" cheered on campaigns to delegitimize, intimidate, and publicly shame the men and women on that court.

They called them illegitimate.

They called them extremists.

They published their home addresses.

And they called it activism.

What Usha Vance Just Reminded the Country

Here's what's worth understanding about Usha Vance stepping in front of a camera and saying this.

She's a Yale Law graduate with years of appellate litigation experience.

She knows exactly what judicial independence means – and what happens to a country when it erodes.

She's not asking anyone to go easy on the left.

She's warning that the rage the left manufactured has real-world consequences for real human beings – consequences she watched unfold for men she knows personally.

"There has been a lot of personalization of feelings towards judges and courts across the country that probably didn't exist 150 years ago," she said.

She's right.

Your generation watched the left transform judicial confirmation hearings into public stonings, turn justices' family members into targets, and celebrate when a radical tried to murder a justice in his own front yard.

This is what the left built.

And the second lady of the United States – a woman with two former bosses sitting on that court right now – just said it out loud on national television.

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Usha Vance isn't the kind of person who makes noise for attention.

She's the kind of person who speaks once, quietly, and means every word.

What she said on ABC wasn't a political speech.

It was a former law clerk standing up for two men she worked for – men who are now being treated as political enemies by a left that has never accepted the court's legitimacy.

She asked for humanity.

She asked for respect.

The left won't listen.

But every conservative watching knows exactly who built this climate – and it wasn't the people Usha Vance is defending.

Sources:

• "Usha Vance Says Supreme Court, Federal Judges Should Be Treated With 'Respect,'" ABC News, June 2, 2026.
• "Vance Slams 'Lawlessness' of Supreme Court Tariffs Ruling," Breitbart, February 20, 2026.
• "Trump Calls Supreme Court Justices Who Ruled Against Tariffs 'Disloyal,'" The Hill, February 20, 2026.
• "Why Trump Is Wrong to Call Dissenting Republican Justices an 'Embarrassment' for Voting Against His Tariffs," Fox News, February 23, 2026.