ABSTRACT
The legislative branch of the government can only protect the judicial officers by the enactment of laws for that purpose, and the argument we are now combating assumes that no such law has been passed by Congress. The enforcement of Acts of Congress or of treaties of the United States according to their express terms, or does it include the rights, duties, and obligations growing out of the Constitution itself. One cannot doubt the power of the President to take measures for the protection of a judge of one of the courts of the United States. Who, while in the discharge of the duties of his office, is threatened with a personal attack which may probably result in his death. "The marshals and their deputies shall have, in each State, the same powers, in executing the laws of the United States, as the sheriffs and their deputies in such State may have, by law, in executing the laws thereof".
