Sen. Cory Booker and Rep. Eric Swalwell introduced a bicameral bill today that would move the U.S. Marshals Service — the agency charged with protecting our 2,300 federal judges and, often, our nine Supreme Court justices — from the executive branch to the judicial branch.

Fix the Court’s Gabe Roth assisted in drafting the bill, and the organization is endorsing it today.

“Presidents supervise more than a dozen law enforcement agencies, but the fact that the primary mission of one of them is to protect members of another branch has never made a whole lot of structural sense,” Roth said.

“I applaud the bill’s sponsors for crafting legislation to move the Marshals from Article II to Article III, thereby ensuring that judges’ safety isn’t subject to interbranch politics or other distractions — all the more important today, as both Democratic and Republican judicial appointees face unprecedented threats.”

The text of the bill, called the Marshals Act, is here.