A Jan. 6 Judge Was Targeted in a SWAT Hoax. He Likely Won't Be the Last

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NEW: The night before a hearing in a high-profile Jan. 6 case this summer, police descended on the home of the judge. The "swatting" incident — a dangerous hoax that prompted a court-wide warning — illustrates the rising threats against federal judges.

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A Jan. 6 Judge Was Targeted in a SWAT Hoax. He Likely Won’t Be the Last
Shortly before midnight on July 21, police arrived at the home of a federal judge set to preside the next day over a plea hearing in Washington in a high-profile Jan. 6 prosecution.
7:20 AM · Oct 1, 2022

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-01/jan-6-judge-targeted-in-swat-hoax-likely-won-t-be-the-last

Shortly before midnight on July 21, police arrived at the home of a federal judge set to preside the next day over a plea hearing in Washington in a high-profile Jan. 6 prosecution.

In what law enforcement later described as a “swatting” incident, an unknown person had placed a call to an emergency services line pretending to be US District Judge Emmet Sullivan. The caller claimed a violent situation was unfolding at the judge’s home. Local police responded to the scene.

The officers found no threat and no one was injured. They determined the call was a hoax, albeit a dangerous one -- when armed police respond to an emergency call on high alert, it escalates the risk of someone getting hurt or killed. The following day, the US Marshals Service sent an email to all of the judges who serve in the federal courthouse in the nation’s capital describing the incident, offering tips to judges on how to stay safe, and noting a possible connection to the Jan. 6 case before Sullivan, according to a copy viewed by Bloomberg News.

The previously unreported incident illustrates the stakes of the rising threats that judges are facing in Washington as well as across the country. In the aftermath of a New Jersey federal judge’s son being killed in 2020, the federal judiciary urged lawmakers to take steps to make it harder for personal information -- such as their addresses -- to fall into malicious hands but legislation has stalled in Congress.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Then again, as it's a judge, you can't tell whether it's swatting or real.

Last year, in NJ, a federal judge's husband and their son were gunned down at the family's home in New Jersey. Her husband survived. Her son did not. She was the target.

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/20/936717194/a-judge-watched-her-son-die-now-she-wants-to-protect-other-judicial-families

[Midnight Writer]

2. "Rising threat against federal judges" or rising threat against non-Federalist Society judges?

"legislation has stalled in Congress" or legislation is being blocked by Republicans in Congress?

Why is it so difficult for news outlets to report the truth; that this violence against public officials from election workers to school boards to Governors to judges to FBI to IRS is being instigated and encouraged by one Party and one Party only. The Republican Party.

[Skittles]

3. more fascism

fuck those cowards

[crickets]

4. Bloomberg article, no paywall:

https://archive.ph/QIqDE

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Unless there are swift and serious consequences, this will escalate.