Massive hate campaigns against judges who go against Trump’s policy
When the Federal Judge James Boasberg concluded in April, the Trump administration could be charged with refusing to follow the verdict immediately-a wave of threats and threatening posts from the president’s tail of supporters.
But the hatred was also aimed at Boasberg’s daughter and the whole family. Some assumed that they would be arrested, or executed.
Another Judge, John McConnellin a similar way after finding out that Trump exceeded his powers when he stopped grants to, among other things, education. The right -wing influencer Laura Loomer tweeted a photo of the judge’s daughter, who previously worked at the Ministry of Education, and accused McConnell of « wanting to save her salary ».
Elon Musk spread the post to his 219 million followers on X. Neither Musk nor Loomer declared that McConnell’s daughter ended at the Ministry of Education even before Trump took office as president.
Loomer continued by nine Similar posts, and there were over 600 phone calls and e -mails with death threats and other threatening messages against McConnell’s family to his workplace.
These are two examples in a review that reuters made From how judges are affected when they made a decision that went against Trump’s policy. In total, there are at least 11 federal judges whose families were threatened or harassed.
It is seen as part of a scare campaign aimed at federal judges who stood in the way of Trump’s agenda, which aims, among other things, to dramatically increase the president’s power and discontinue the state apparatus.
When Trump and his allies shouted After the judges are faced with national law, or pointed out them as « left -wing » political enemies, they at the same time become goals for harassment, Reuters writes.
Since Trump returned to power, at least 60 judges or federal courts have made a decision against him. About ten of the judges have expressed fear for the news agency and do not want to come forward by name, because it is feared that it can aggravate the security situation, or question their impartiality.
The hundreds of posts that Reuters went Throughout everything from breaking down on looks to questioning patriotism. Musk’s social platform X strengthens the campaign, and the 600 reviewed messages reach hundreds of millions of users.
The threats to the judges and their families are ultimately a threat to the principle that the government and the authorities must comply with laws, says Federal Judge Richard Sullivan, who is chairman of a security committee.
The judicial system has come forward As a counter -force against Trump’s attempt to break authorities, deport migrants and to ban certain law firms. When the White House now persists against the courts’ decisions, legal experts warn that the country can already be in a constitutional crisis.
The White House believes that the judges who go too far, not the president, but have also said that threats to the judiciary « is unacceptable ».
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