Supreme Court asks Maryland officials to stop protests outside justices' houses

[dalton99a]

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/02/politics/supreme-court-justices-homes-maryland/index.html

Marshal of the Supreme Court asks Maryland officials to enforce anti-picketing laws
By Ariane de Vogue, CNN Supreme Court Reporter

(CNN) The marshal of the Supreme Court is asking Maryland officials to direct law enforcement to enforce the state's laws prohibiting picketing outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, according to letters sent to Gov. Larry Hogan and Mark Elrich, the county executive of Montgomery County.

"You recently stated that you were 'deeply concerned' that 'hundreds of demonstrators have recently chosen to picket Supreme Court Justices at their homes in...Maryland," the letter to Hogan by Col. Gail A Curley said. "Since then, protest activity at the Justices' homes, as well as threatening activity, has only increased."

The letters, dated Friday and released by a court spokesperson on Saturday to reporters, refer to protests that have taken place "for weeks on end."

They cite the arrest near Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home in June of a man who was later charged by the Justice Department with attempting or threatening to kidnap or murder a US judge. Several Supreme Court justices live in Maryland.



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[comradebillyboy]

1. Maybe the Court can cite the Divine Right of Kings as

a precedent to overturn the 1st Amendment.

[dalton99a]

3. +1. The next GOP Congress will pass a lese-majeste law

[MerryHolidays]

2. That looks like a rough crowd

"Dear" "Justices":

You decided that allowing black money into US politics was a permissible expression of "free speech." Peaceful protest (which I guess six of you may not know too much about) on public grounds is the essence of free speech. Do you need to go back to law school to understand that?

You are reaping what you sowed.

Yours sincerely,
Every decent person in the USA

[Brainfodder]

4. Next SC wants no mention of itself in media.

[Sienna86]

5. Right to peaceably assemble, 1st Amendment

Not that it means anything to certain SC justices.

[Solly Mack]

6. Yeah, well, you strip away rights, "picketing" is the least you deserve.

[Samrob]

7. Nope! Free speech. Or did they overturn that too? SCOTUS is still part of the government.

"Right to petition the government."

[Samrob]

8. Why should Maryland enforce laws that the rest of the country ignores?

[lpbk2713]

9. If you clowns weren't such world scale assholes ...

maybe those demonstrators would not feel compelled to walk on hot asphalt on a 100° day.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. As long as the law is applied neutrally the courts have ruled residential picketing can be regulated

[The Magistrate]

11. Citizens, Sir, Are Free To Exercise 1st and 2nd Amendment Rights Under Our Constitution

I fail to see what makes these particular poltroons immune from hearing the voice of the people up close and personal, all night long and all the day through....

[Hiawatha Pete]

19. +1

[SWBTATTReg]

12. Good. No peace, no rest for these thugs, who took away rights for the first time in

supreme court history. They took away a right. The only time ever!

Thus, they lied, they took away an existing right, they put out an inept decision when they released their decision on overriding Roe, and basically, were 10 cent lawyers chasing after an ambulance.

What they did was cheap a&& lawyering, at its worst.

[spanone]

13. It's Protected.....for now.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Let the people protest

[In It to Win It]

15. They gave law enforcement 'qualified immunity' for situations like this

[MichMan]

16. Everytime they appear in public, they need people screaming FU in their face

[kairos12]

17. They aren't getting half what

abortion clinics lived with for decades.

[Novara]

18. damn straight

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[DFW]

21. Minor headline below that one:

"Protesters Ask Supreme Court Justices to Restore the Rights They Just Took Away"

One will get you the other--in both cases.