Countering Threats and Attacks on Our Judges Act

1) The Countering Threats and Attacks on Our Judges Act, S.2379, passed the Senate unanimously on November 20, 2025, and is currently held at the desk in the House. The bill amends the State Justice Institute Act of 1984 to authorize awards for a State judicial threat intelligence and resource center focused on state and local judge security. 2) The funding mechanism is critical: this is an authorization bill with NO specified appropriation amount. It authorizes the State Justice Institute—a private nonprofit—to provide financial and technical support to 'eligible organizations' (defined as national nonprofits with judicial security expertise). No actual money is allocated until a separate appropriations bill is passed. The State Justice Institute's annual budget is modest (~$7-10M historically), so even if funded, the new program would be a small fraction of that. 3) The bill's structural beneficiaries are likely specialized judicial security nonprofits, not publicly traded defense or technology companies. While $BAH, , and all have threat monitoring and physical security assessment capabilities, the bill's funding channel (nonprofit intermediaries) and small expected budget make direct contract opportunities unlikely at scale. The tickers listed above have neutral-to-weak causal chains and low confidence scores because the linkage requires multiple inferential steps. 4) The bill has companion legislation HR4602 in the House, which increases passage probability but does not change the structural reality of a small, unspecified funding pool. Bipartisan sponsorship (Cornyn-R, Coons-D, Moran-R, Hawley-R, Whitehouse-D, Shaheen-D) indicates broad support. 5) Remaining legislative steps: The House must take up and pass the bill (or its companion), after which it goes to the President. With unanimous Senate passage and bipartisan sponsorship, House passage is plausible but not guaranteed this Congress. Even if enacted, meaningful contract awards would require a subsequent appropriations bill, likely in FY2027 or later.