ST. PAUL — A 72-year-old Hopkins man was charged Monday, Sept. 8, with threatening to kill a federal judge.

According to the criminal complaint, law enforcement responded to the Wayzata Library on Sept. 3, where Robert Ivers was reportedly printing copies of a 236-page manifesto titled “How to Kill a Federal Judge.”

Before he left the library, Ivers also allegedly gave library staff a three-page flier stating that his manifesto “is designed to teach extremists on how to plan, train, hunt, stalk and kill anyone including judges, their family members, politicians and more!”

Ivers, formerly of West Fargo, was previously convicted of threatening to kill a federal judge in September 2018 and sentenced to 18 months in federal prison. He was released in August 2019 but was accused in 2022 of

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