Their job is to maintain the Supreme Court Building and to maintain order in the building (plus do all sorts of other administrative details).
GSA doesn't run the main building although it does support courts throughout the country.
The USSC feels it has the prerogative to ask Congress for an appropriation to run their court without kowtowing to the Executive.
My bet is on the USSC siding with Congress against the lower court on the this very narrow issue ~ to wit, did the FBI act appropriately in conducting a raid on an office in a House of Representatives office building adjacent to the Capitol.
I think they'll support Congress and smack down the Executive.
It's gonna' be a cold winter in the FBI building in DC this winter, did you know that?
And that FBI agent who decided to do the search? He's probably already figured out his career at the FBI is at it's peak.
You really think that the Administrative Office of the Supreme Court maintains the Supreme Court building and regulates the heat in the building?
You never cease to amaze me with what you think you know -- and don't.
Here is what they do, and they are not the GSA (which does do those things for the SCOTUS):
US CODE: Title 28,604. Duties of Director generally
http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode28/usc_sec_28_00000604----000-.html
Sheesh.
yes, but the issue here is - if Justice Souter robs a bank tommorrow, and the bag of cash is in his SCOTUS office, can the FBI enter it with a search warrant?
If Congress were to act as you describe - basically defunding every agency and court that sought to hold its members accountable for civilian crimes - then the entire government might as well collapse.