Free speech or federal crime? Protesters are still marching outside conservative Supreme Court justices’ homes – By Lawrence Hurley (NBC News) / May 14, 2023
Some senators want a federal law used to charge those who continue to picket — even though it could be on shaky constitutional grounds.
CHEVY CHASE, Md. — As the group of about a dozen protesters rounded the corner and approached Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s house on a leafy suburban street, the two deputy U.S. marshals on guard watched unmoved from their perch in the driveway.
One whispered into his radio. The other took a sip from a coffee cup.
The protesters, who had gathered on the evening of May 4, walked past the house singing “I went down to the rich man’s house and took back what he stole from me.” One was holding a sign reading “For sale: one corrupt SCOTUS,” using an acronym for Supreme Court of the United States. Another sign said, “expand the court.” The protesters, mostly women, were in good humor, laughing among themselves as they marched.
It wasn’t clear if anyone was home and the street — in the affluent community of Chevy Chase, Md. which is only miles from the Washington city limits but during rush hour requires an hour to commute to the Supreme Court — was otherwise quiet. Two children with tennis rackets knocked a ball back and forth in a nearby front yard. One house opposite had a sign outside reading “Chevy Chasers for Choice.”
