Supreme Court Marshal Gail Kerley wrote letters to Virginia Gov. Glen Young, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan — both Republicans — and county leaders in both states, citing state and local statutes that prohibit demonstrations outside private residences. . “For weeks on end, large groups of protesters chanting slogans, using bullhorns and beating drums have picketed the houses of the judges,” Curley wrote in letters dated July 1 and released Saturday. The requests came a day after a number of pro-abortion protesters stormed the home of Justice Amy Coney Barrett in Falls Church, Va. — and three weeks after a gunman was arrested outside Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s home in Montgomery County, Md. and was charged with attempted murder. Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley asked the governors of Virginia and Maryland to stop protesters at the Supreme Court houses. Getty Images The activist group Ruth Sent Us stunned the court’s conservative justices in early May when an unprecedented leak of a draft opinion revealed their plans to overturn Roe v. Wade. Hogan and Youngkin, both Republicans, called on Attorney General Merrick Garland to quell the protests, citing a federal law that prohibits demonstrations to influence a judge in a pending case — to no avail.
