Thursday, February 29, 2024

Judges in Trump Cases Face Unprecedented Wave of Threats

Judges and prosecutors are facing repeated threats of violence as they handle cases related to Trump, interviews and documents reveal. The wave of intimidation follows the ex-president's attacks on judges as corrupt and biased -- and some worry it threatens America's long tradition of judicial independence.

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... U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth has been threatened by angry criminals. Drug cartels. Even al Qaeda.

But nothing, Lamberth says, prepared him for the wave of harassment after he began hearing cases against supporters of former President Donald Trump who attacked the U.S. Capitol in a bid to overturn the 2020 election.

Right-wing websites painted Lamberth, appointed to the bench by Republican President Ronald Reagan, as part of a "deep state" conspiracy to destroy Trump and his followers. Calls for his execution cropped up on Trump-friendly websites. "Traitors get ropes," one wrote. After he issued a prison sentence to a 69-year-old Idaho woman who pleaded guilty to joining the Jan. 6, 2021, riot, his chambers' voicemail filled with death threats. One man found Lamberth's home phone number and called repeatedly with graphic vows to murder him.

"I could not believe how many death threats I got," Lamberth told Reuters, revealing the calls to his home for the first time. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-02-29 12:10 PM

Dictator Trump is quadrupling down.

Fear and intimidation are his weapons of choice.

This is Child's Play compared to what he's going to do when he weaponizes the DOJ.

#2 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-02-29 05:34 PM

With the technology available today we should be able to track a lot of these people and file charges against them for intimidation of a government official. To be able to make threats, especially death threats against people, without consequences is ridiculous.

#3 | Posted by rukiddin at 2024-03-01 08:43 AM

Not mentioned here: the death threats which are already rolling into the SCOTUS for holding up Trump's supposed vindication and subsequent declaration of his mother's immaculate conception...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-03-01 09:33 AM

Trumpers are violent thugs.

It's just who they are.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-03-01 11:58 AM

They're lucky they're just getting threats, in any sane country these criminals would have already been dealt with

#6 | Posted by THEBULL at 2024-03-01 05:35 PM

The demented orange pedo should've gotten the Mussolini treatment for J6.

#7 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-03-01 05:54 PM

in any sane country these criminals would have already been dealt with

#6 | POSTED BY THEBULL

Millions of people say the same thing about you and people like you.

You are such an Internet-tough guy. I wonder if you've ever been in a real scrape in your life? Your innocence would explain your bluster, as it does for so many of your tribe.

#8 | Posted by Zed at 2024-03-02 09:59 AM

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