MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Robert Phillip Ivers, 72, has been federally indicted on charges of threatening to assault and murder a federal judge and a Supreme Court Justice, and for making interstate threats Ivers, previously convicted of threatening a judge, remains detained awaiting further proceedings. “Threats to murder a federal judge, a Supreme Court Justice, and a defense attorney are not just words on a page. They are direct attacks on the rule of law,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph H. Thompson. “We will not allow violent rhetoric to become routine. When someone threatens our judges, we will answer with swift federal prosecution.” The complaint states that on September 3, Ivers was found at the Wayzata Library in Minnesota, printing a manifesto titled “How to Kill a

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