Maine Neighbors Stage Kayak Protests Near John Roberts’s 20-Summer Island Retreat
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Updated · The New York Times · Oct 1
Maine Neighbors Stage Kayak Protests Near John Roberts’s 20-Summer Island Retreat
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Oct 1
Summary
Neighbors on Maine’s Hupper Island and in nearby Port Clyde have begun staging “kayak-tivist” flotillas with waterproof signs aimed at Chief Justice John Roberts near his summer home.
More than 20 summers of easy local ties have frayed as residents increasingly blame Roberts for a Supreme Court they see as reshaping American life and empowering President Trump.
The backlash has turned a long-public refuge about 90 miles northeast of Portland into a local flashpoint, with one newspaper columnist even urging townspeople to give Roberts the finger.
The protests show how anger at the court’s recent direction is spilling beyond Washington and into the private lives of justices in places once defined by routine neighborliness.