Montgomery County will continue to allow protests at justices' homes. [View all]

County Executive Marc Elrich called a letter from court security officials "irresponsible and disappointing." But he cautioned it doesn't mean "anything goes."

CHEVY CHASE, Md. — Montgomery County Police will continue to allow peaceful protests near the homes of Supreme Court Justices, the county executive said Wednesday.

Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich accused the Supreme Court’s chief security official and the court's conservative justices of media grandstanding after the court went public this weekend with letters to local authorities in Maryland and Virginia demanding they use local ordinances to shut down protests near the homes of justices.

“It's not about security when when you get a message from the press office about security," Elrich said.

Elrich complained his office has still not recieved an official copy of the letter from Supreme Court Marshal Gail A. Curley, the court's chief law enforcement officer.

“I think all you got to do is look at Putin's Russia, and get an idea of where you don't want to go," Elrich said. "This idea where people can gather together and if you gather together you're gonna be arrested. That's not happening here.”

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