Judges Fear for Their Safety Amid a Wave of Threats
20th March 2025
The New York Times, a Voice of the Crust.
President Trump’s angry call on Tuesday for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his administration on deportation flights has set off a string of near-instant social media taunts and threats, including images of judges being marched off in handcuffs.
Compare Chuck Schumer’s threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
The call came against an ominous backdrop. Nine days earlier, police officers in Charleston, S.C., had been dispatched to the home of one of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s sisters because of a threat that there was a pipe bomb in her mailbox. “The device’s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened,” the emailed threat read.
The pipe bomb proved to be a hoax, but the threats and intimidation faced by judges and their families in recent weeks are real, judges say. At a moment when the judiciary is weighing pivotal decisions on the legality of Trump administration policies, the potential for violence against judges seems to be rising.
Trump is merely talking about impeachment, a legitimate mechanism under the Constitution; Woke mobs pick violence first, and don’t even bother with legal remedies. (Note that the Justice in question is nominally conservative, and how the NYT cleverly casts a situation involving left-wing judges as if it were a universal problem.