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Stanley was also ordered to pay $8,250 restitution to police who worked overtime to protect the judges. [49] Threats against federal judges and prosecutors have more than doubled in recent years, with threats against federal prosecutors rising from 116 to 250 from 2003 to 2008, [50] and threats against federal judges climbing from 500 to 1,278 ...
(The Center square) – U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts warned that judges across the country face increasing threats from disinformation, violence, intimidation and those ...
In June 2022, a California man who allegedly made threats against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was arrested near the justice's suburban Washington, D.C., home while armed with a gun and ...
Roberts has repeatedly used his year-end report to tout the importance of an independent judiciary and to sound an alarm about threats of violence against judges. Two years ago, in a similar vein ...
While no agency tracks judicial threats of Georgia judges, data from the U.S. Marshals Service shows that credible threats against federal judges has increased from 179 in 2019 to 457 in 2023, he ...
Other threats might include an administrative law action or complaint, referring the other party to a regulatory body, turning the party into the legal authorities over a crime or civil infraction, or the like. Legal threats are often veiled or indirect, e.g. a threat that a party "shall be forced to consider its legal options" or "will refer ...
For example, James Wilson asserted in the Pennsylvania ratifying convention that federal judges would exercise judicial review: "If a law should be made inconsistent with those powers vested by this instrument in Congress, the judges, as a consequence of their independence, and the particular powers of government being defined, will declare ...
According to the American Bar Association, threats against federal judges have doubled in the past three years. ... Judicial independence and the rule of law, the concept that no one is above the ...