The Supreme Court’s security chief has asked officials in Maryland and Virginia to end picketing and “intimidating activity” outside justices’ homes — after the US Justice Department delayed enforcing federal laws banning such protests.
Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley wrote letters to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan — both Republicans — and county leaders in both states, citing state and local laws banning demonstrations outside private residences.
“For weeks, large groups of protesters, chanting slogans, using megaphones and beating drums, picketed the homes of the judges,” Curley wrote in letters dated July 1 and published Saturday.
The demands came one day after scores of pro-abortion demonstrators stormed the home of Judge Amy Coney Barrett in Falls Church, Virginia — and three weeks after a gunman was arrested outside Judge Brett Cavanaugh’s home in Montgomery County, Maryland, and charged with attempt to kill.
Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley asked the governors of Virginia and Maryland to stop protesters at the homes of Supreme Court justices. Getty Images
Activist group Ruth Sent Us doxxxed the court’s conservative justices in early May, when an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion revealed their plans to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Hogan and Youngkin, both Republicans, called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to quell the protests, citing a federal law prohibiting demonstrations aimed at influencing a judge in a pending case — to no avail.
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