Verbal attacks by Trump and allies are creating a hostile climate that endangers judges’ safety, experts say
US judges who have increasingly rebuked the Trump administration’s harsh deportation agenda and other MAGA policies are facing intense verbal assaults from the president and his allies, which seem to be spurring other dangerous threats against judges, say legal experts and former judges.
The Trump administration’s escalating fight with the courts has come as more than 200 lawsuits have challenged executive orders and policies on multiple issues including immigrant deportations, penalizing law firms with links to political foes, agency spending and workforce cuts, and other matters.
The wave of litigation has resulted in more than 100 executive orders by Trump and other initiatives being halted temporarily or paused by court rulings from judges appointed by both Democrats and Republicans including some by Trump.
This was happening during Biden’s administration and so many people were saying about judges like Merchan “their lives and families are being threatened, you have to give them a break! They can’t be expected to put their lives or their families lives on the line!”
I want to know if those people who said that think that those judges families are somehow safer now? Because I don’t. We are all now at risk of violent threats and follow through on those threats because they were more worried about self preservation over the future of the whole country.
It was short sighted to not fight harder because they were being threatened because now everyone is being threatened and there’s even less of a system for stopping such violence if it comes to fruition.
Also, as I said at the time. They knew what they were signing up for being a judge, being a public figure. Suddenly getting cold feet because reality slapped them in the face was a weak excuse that has punished all of us. Further, as I said above, it didn’t make them or their families any more safe in the long run, either. It made them more unsafe.
I’m just gonna lazypaste what I wrote a while back about senators and congressmen backing Trump out of fear:
"Yup. This has been common among politicians for the past 10 years.
And the only takeaway should be that violence is the only consequence these fuckers fear, and is a viable strategy currently only deployed by one side of the political spectrum.
Fuck the high road."
It seems like every time someone goes after Trump there is a barrage of commenters online that all of a sudden have a lot of anger to express towards that person.
For example, Mueller, Garland, Cheney.
The timing an quantity of comments always makes it seem like brigading to manufacture consent to attack those people.
Further, when it comes to actual documented threats, I’ve heard nothing but crickets in terms of prosecuting and jailing people for making threats to State and Federal judges/employees, which I am pretty damn sure is some kind of felony.