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US judges who rule against Trump are being barraged with abuse and threats, experts warn
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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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.
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.