Justice Amy Coney Barrett sat in July before a House subcommittee, alongside Justice Elena Kagan, making the case to prioritize funding to protect the justices and their families.

She described a recent swatting call at her home — someone phoning in a fake report of gunfire, one of her teenage sons opening the door to find the street filled with squad cars — and of also having to explain to her then-12-year-old son why she needed a bulletproof vest. (RELATED: Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett Reportedly ‘Swatted’)

“I didn’t expect that performing this service was going to put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was and why I had to wear one,” she said.

Kagan, who has no children, sat beside her making the same case about rising threats to the judiciary. You don’t need to be a parent to see that danger.

But it’s Barrett, a Catholic mother of seven, who’s also sitting closest to a different, quieter question the Court has been answering: how parents protect their children when the threats they face come not only from violence, but from government policies that intrude on family life. It clearly helps to have a parent part of making that call.

Start with Mahmoud v. Taylor last year, which Barrett joined. Montgomery County, Maryland parents wanted an........

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