The issue is not pissing off a judge. The issue is balancing the right to protest with the right to privacy. The right to protest is a form of free speech and its intent is to allow citizens to make themselves heard in the "public square".

It is not, nor was it ever intended to be a way to harass public figures and invade their privacy. I for one would support more specific legilsation aimed at constraining people from use protesting to harass public servants rather than as a means of free speech.

The litmus test is are you trying to tell your fellow citizens where you stand on an issue or are you trying to make the private lives of public servants hell. The latter is called harassment and has nothing to do with protesting.