(CNSNews.com) -- The Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland has not responded to a standard and legal Public Information Act (PIA) request for records and communications about the ongoing protests outside the homes of some Supreme Court justices. As a result, Judicial Watch has filed a PIA lawsuit against the police department in the Montgomery Circuit Court for those records. 

“For more than a year, the Montgomery County Police Department has unlawfully stonewalled Judicial Watch’s request for records and communications with the Biden administration about the dangerous and illegal protests that were trying to intimidate Supreme Court justices at their homes,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

The protests started after someone leaked a draft court opinion (written by Justice Samuel Alito) in May 2022 that argued for overturning Roe v. Wade and Casey v. Planned Parenthood in the Dobbs case. The court eventually ruled that way on June 24, 2022.

However, that ruling did not stop the protests, which reportedly are a violation of federal law. 

The law, 18 U.S.C 1507 states, "Whoever, with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing any judge, juror, witness, or court officer, in the discharge of his duty, pickets or parades in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied or used by such judge, juror, witness, or court officer, or with such intent uses any sound-truck or similar device or resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both."  (Emphasis added.)

To date, that law has not been enforced.

In addition to the protests, several justices have received death threats and an armed man, Nicholas John Roske, was arrested outside the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in Bethesda, Md. Roske admitted that he went there to try to kill Judge Kavanaugh. 

In its Public Information Act lawsuit, Judicial Watch is seeking the following:

All records including email communications (including emails, complete email chains, and email attachments), memoranda, draft memoranda, reports, investigative reports, incident reports and other communications maintained by the Montgomery County Police Department and/or communicated with any of the below listed agencies, or employees of those agencies concerning protests, demonstrations, marches, pickets, or gatherings at the Montgomery County dwellings of Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.

(1) The U.S. Marshals Service (domain usdoj.gov)

(2) The Federal Bureau of Investigation (domain fbi.gov)

(3) The Department of Justice (domain justice.gov)

(4) Maryland State Police (domain maryland.gov)

(5) Maryland Attorney General’s Office (domain oag.state.md.gov)