Growing outrage directed at conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices over its landmark ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade began to concern the Marshal of the Court, Gail Curley.
Ms Curley wrote to the governors of Maryland and Virginia, as well as county officials overseeing areas where some judges live, and demanded that they enforce laws prohibiting demonstrations outside the private residences of individual judges, citing local anti-picketing laws specific to each. State.
“This is exactly the kind of conduct the laws of Maryland and Montgomery County prohibit,” Ms. Curley wrote in the letter to Maryland officials, which, like Virginia’s letter, was dated Friday and given to reporters. One day later.
Ms Curley went on to describe a case last week when a group of protesters in Maryland picketed the homes of two judges.
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Maryland state officials had a less than enthusiastic response to the court marshal’s request. Montgomery County Executive Democrat Marc Elrich condemned the court’s decision to publicly release the letter, which he said would only further inflame the protests.
Its publication “is counterproductive, and the use of the media only draws more attention to the safety of the homes and quarters of judges,” he argued in a statement to CNN.
“Quite frankly, publicly discussing security issues is irresponsible and disappointing behavior,” Mr. Elrich said.
And a spokesperson for Republican Gov. Larry Hogan responded in the same way, ridiculing the Supreme Court Marshal for not investigating the matter and noting that the state attorney general’s office wasn’t even confident in the constitutionality of anti-picket laws.
The court faced a furious backlash to its decision to erase federal protections for abortion rights, with progressives denouncing the entire institution as illegitimate and calling on President Joe Biden to widen the bench at- more than nine judges to eliminate the majority of the conservative bloc.
Mr Biden refused to do so and compromised with his party’s left flank by moving on his opposition to changing the Senate filibuster rule to support an exception to the rule that would allow Democrats to codify the right to abortion in law with 51 votes.
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