Daily Archives: July 4, 2022


Supreme Court marshal wants crack down on picketing, protests outside justices’ homes

CBS News is one source that has covered the news story Supreme Court marshal wants crack down on picketing, protests outside justices’ homes.

The marshal of the U.S. Supreme Court has asked Maryland and Virginia officials to step up the enforcement of laws she says prohibit picketing outside the homes of the justices who live in the two states.

“For weeks on end, large groups of protesters chanting slogans, using bullhorns, and banging drums have picketed Justices’ homes,” Marshal Gail Curley wrote in the Friday letters to Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin and two local elected officials.

Oddly enough, this activity is covered in the USA Constitution in the First Amendment.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Can the Supreme Court be charged with violating picketers’ civil rights? Who would arrest them? Who would try them? Where would they be jailed to serve out their sentences?