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.
At the time, Hogan said he was “deeply concerned” that hundreds of people were picketing outside the homes of some justices,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.
Maryland law prohibits assembling “with another in a manner that disrupts a person’s right to tranquility in the person’s home," she added.
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