Washington Correspondent
After the Capitol and the White House, it is the Supreme Court's turn to be surrounded by security gates and police.
As if the epicenter of America's political crisis has recently shifted, the seat of the judiciary has become the new gathering place for protests in Washington.
Since the announcement last month of the court's decision to strike down the constitutional abortion guarantee, overturning the 1973 Roe v Wade ruling, a meager crowd has camped almost daily outside the white columns of the small neoclassical palace where sits the institution, to loudly denounce "
a government of judges
".
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