Both parties want the same outcome so they are pretending to fight over a fake issue: whether to give protection to clerks too. If you really want the justices safe and that's toe price, so be it. But instead it's just an excuse for McConnell to say "oh no, we can't do that, it's too much!".
These protests are already illegal, it's black and white law in the US Code. DOJ won't enforce it. Congress is pretending there's a major hurdle to sending cops to the houses. Don't expect anything to be done to keep them safe until they get the outcome the uniparty wants.
The protests appear to be illegal but it's not as cut and dry as you think.
The power is to LE to arrest....not to DOJ. And there are LE officers at the houses already.