The Supreme Court has asked Maryland officials, including Republican Gov. Larry Hogan, to enforce state and county laws that prohibit picketing at private homes after protests started outside of the Supreme Court Justices’ homes last month, NBC News reports.
What they’re saying: Protests at and threatening activities at justices’ homes have increased, Supreme Court marshal Gail Curley said in a letter to Hogan and a letter to Marc Elrich, the executive of Montgomery County, NBC News writes.
- According to Curley, 75 protesters “loudly picketed at one justice’s home in Maryland for 20-30 minutes in the evening, then proceeded to picket at another justice’s home for 30 minutes, where the crowd grew to 100, and finally returned to the first justice’s home to picket for another 20 minutes.”
- Maryland law prohibits assembling “with another in a manner that disrupts a person’s right to tranquility in the person’s home,” she added.
- “This is exactly the kind of conduct that Maryland and Montgomery County laws prohibit,” Curley wrote.
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