MINNEAPOLIS, MN – A 72-year-old Minnesota man with a prior conviction for threatening a judge has been indicted again, this time on charges of threatening to murder a federal judge, a Supreme Court Justice, and a defense attorney, prosecutors announced.

Robert Phillip Ivers was arrested after authorities said he printed and distributed copies of a 236-page manifesto titled “How to Kill a Federal Judge” at a public library in Wayzata. The indictment charges him with three counts: threatening to assault and murder a federal judge, threatening a Supreme Court Justice, and interstate transmission of threats.

According to the complaint, library staff alerted police after Ivers showed them pages of the manifesto, which contained violent threats and disturbing imagery. He also handed out flyers

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