Threats leveled against judges and their families are becoming increasingly prevalent.

Federal judges were targeted 457 times in 2023; in 2022, 300 were targeted; and 179 were targeted in 2019. All of the threats were deemed serious enough to investigate. (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/threats-to-federal-judges-have-risen-every-year-since-2019/).

This year, judges who have ruled in actions brought by and against the Trump administration and its allies have endured even more sinister and dangerous attacks on them and members of their families. According to Nathan L. Hecht, chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, such attacks are fomented by misinformation.

He noted in June in a roundtable on the subject: When that’s all the public hears in this polarized, political environment, it affec

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