Supreme Court docket marshal phone calls on Maryland officers to implement legislation banning protests exterior justices’ properties

The Supreme Court's best-rating protection formal has despatched letters to Maryland lawmakers demanding they use law enforcement and regulation enforcement to protect against picketing at the properties of justices.

Supreme Courtroom Marshal Gail Curley despatched two letters — one particular resolved to Gov. Larry Hogan and an additional to Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich — demanding that authorities set an finish to picketing and "threatening action" outside the properties of SCOTUS justices.

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"I am writing to request that the Maryland Point out Police, in conjunction with neighborhood authorities as correct, enforce regulations that prohibit picketing outdoors of the properties of Supreme Court Justices who stay in Maryland," Curley wrote in her letter to Hogan.

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Protesters march past Supreme Courtroom Justice Brett Kavanaugh's property on June 8, 2022 in Chevy Chase, Maryland.  (Nathan Howard/Getty Photos)

"You a short while ago mentioned that you had been 'deeply concerned' that 'hundreds of demonstrators have just lately preferred to picket Supreme Courtroom Justices at their properties in... Maryland,' while applying 'threatening language' — jeopardizing 'the integrity of our American judicial process and the security of our citizen," the marshal wrote. "Considering the fact that then, protest activity at Justices' houses, as very well as threatening exercise, has only increased."

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Curley instructed Hogan to employ the point out police and Maryland's authorized means to conclude the protests.

"I would respectfully request that you immediate the Maryland Point out Law enforcement to implement Maryland and Montgomery County guidelines that squarely prohibit picketing at the homes of Supreme Court docket Justices who reside in Maryland."

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Hogan, alongside with Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, have called on the Section of Justice to enforce the federal statute that prohibits protests, pickets and other types of intimidation outside the house the property of judges.

Professional-choice protesters display outside U.S. Supreme Courtroom Justice Samuel Alito's household on June 27, 2022, in Alexandria, Virginia. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Pictures)

It is unlawful beneath federal regulation to try to affect a judge's ruling or interfere with the discharge of their obligation. The Justice Division, on the other hand, has so significantly refused to interfere with demonstrators outside the house the houses of a number of Supreme Court docket justices, including Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh. 

When the DOJ has presented security at the justices' residences, they have allowed protests and picketing to continue unimpeded.