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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sending pizzas is a pretty benign form of protest. I’d have no problem with it if they weren’t ordering the pizzas under the name of the judge’s son who was murdered by someone who was angry at her rulings. This is an implicit threat, which makes it different from ordinary protesting.

[b]Carrying signs and chanting non violent slogans on the public sidewalks near a SC justice’s home is okay.
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Plotting to assassinate them is not.

Ordering pizzas to judges homes is okay.

Issuing a threat by invoking the name of the murdered son of a judge is not.[/quote]

It's actually not.

The law in question prohibits the “picketing and parading” of federal judges and court facilities with the intent of interfering or obstructing the administration of justice or with the intent of influencing a judge.

“The entire country has seen hundreds of protesters outside the homes of Supreme Court justices night after night after night. You turn on your TV and you see violations of this criminal statute over and over and over again,” Sen. Ted Cruz, a Texas Republian, said at a Senate hearing last month.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-cour...ervative-s-rcna78678
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Picketing in advance of an anticipated ruling would be prohibited, but protesting rulings that have already been issued by the highest court in the land isn’t “interfering or obstructing the administration of justice or with the intent of influencing a judge.” It’s too late at that point.[/quote]

Maybe it's not such a great idea to issue shitty rulings that go against stare decisis and "settled law?"  Maybe it's not such a great idea to lie about your position in your confirmation hearing?   Maybe it's not a great idea for a judge to be corrupt and take massive gifts from political insiders?

Maybe if they were better judges people wouldn't be pissed off at them.   Ya think?[/quote]

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