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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Courts top security officer has asked Maryland Governor Larry Hogan to enforce laws barring picketing outside the Maryland homes of high court justices, saying protests and threatening activity have increased.
Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley made the request in a July 1 letter to Hogan, noting that Maryland law prohibits people from intentionally assembling in a manner that disrupts a persons right to tranquility in the persons home.
I am writing to request that the Maryland State Police, in conjunction with local authorities as appropriate, enforce laws prohibiting picketing outside the homes of Supreme Court justices who live in Maryland, Curley told Hogan, according to a copy of the letter posted on the Fox News website.
Abortion rights activists began protesting outside the Maryland homes of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the Virginia home of Justice Samuel Alito Jr. after the leak in May of a draft opinion indicating the court would overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 decision guaranteeing women the right to an abortion.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-supreme-court-asks-maryland-190742778.html
Kavanaugh want to chug and puke his beer in peace.
Supreme Court: MD officials must enforce anti-picketing laws on abortion rights protests outside justices' homes
WASHINGTON The U.S. Supreme Court is asking key Maryland officials to enforce anti-picketing laws following protests outside the homes of high court justices who live in the state.
In separate letters to GOP Gov. Larry Hogan and Montgomery County County Executive Mark Ehrlich, Marshal of the Court Gail A. Curley said state and local authorities should be doing more to keep the justices safe.
"I would respectfully request that you direct the Maryland State Police to enforce Maryland and Montgomery County laws that squarely prohibit picketing at the homes of Supreme Court Justices who reside in Maryland," Curley write to Hogan on Friday.
Both letters were released to the media Saturday. Similar letters were sent to Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Jeffrey MacKay, Board of Supervisors chair in Fairfax County, Virginia, which also sits next to Washington.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/supreme-court-md-officials-must-enforce-anti-picketing-laws-on-abortion-rights-protests-outside-justices-homes/ar-AAZ7lSG
Initech
(109,263 posts)unblock
(56,261 posts)or so I'm told.
roamer65
(37,974 posts)elleng
(141,926 posts)noting that Maryland law prohibits people from intentionally assembling in a manner that disrupts a persons right to tranquility in the persons home.'
lisa58
(5,822 posts)no_hypocrisy
(55,377 posts)Maryland can do whatever it wants.
elias7
(4,229 posts)2naSalit
(103,808 posts)They created their problem, they can live with it.
onecaliberal
(36,594 posts)TigressDem
(5,126 posts)So they go home and feel better for a bit, but when they get into the office and start making those power grabs, their guts can clench.
Just get larger, louder crowds. 8,000 sound about right or maybe 10,000? 20,000?
tRump of the tiny hand, women haters club got 8,000.
Surely WE can do better than that?
UTUSN
(77,795 posts)Stinky The Clown
(68,964 posts)
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