MAGAts Threaten Judges, Prosecutors

 

The frothing fascists are out in force, and their target is once again the American justice system:

Jesse Binnall, an appellate attorney for Donald Trump, warned that a "real" Department of Justice would federally prosecute Colorado State Supreme Court justices who voted to remove the former president from the state's primary ballot.

During an appearance on Real America's Voice on Wednesday, Binnall slammed the court's decision to disqualify Trump based on the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which prevents anyone who participated in an insurrection from holding office.

Binnall told the conservative network that there was a way a future Department of Justice could punish the Colorado justices with federal prosecution and civil rights laws. He suggested a "real" DOJ would take action against the Colorado justices and "other judges" if Trump won the 2024 election...  (our emphasis)

And,

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold said Wednesday she is “extremely concerned” about fanatical supporters of Donald Trump becoming violent in response to the state Supreme Court ruling that Trump is ineligible to appear on Colorado’s 2024 presidential primary ballot.

“I’ve been concerned about violence and threats of violence since Donald Trump incited the insurrection,” Griswold, who has been Colorado’s Democratic secretary of state since 2019, said in an interview. “I’ve received hundreds if not thousands of threats at this point.”

She’s faced an astounding uptick in threats amid the lawsuit over Trump’s eligibility to appear on the state ballot, even though she has nothing to do with it. The case, which was brought in September by the group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, was filed by six unaffiliated and Republican voters in Colorado.

“I filed it because I’m the secretary of state. I did not bring this case,” Griswold said. “Within three weeks of it being filed, I received 64 death threats and over 900 non-lethal threats of abuse. I stopped counting after that.”

“So yes, I’m extremely concerned,” she added. “It just underlines that Donald Trump is a major threat to American democracy, elections and stability. He uses threats and intimidation against his political opponents. When he doesn’t win elections, he tries to steal them. He is a dangerous leader for this country.”...  (our emphasis)

And,

In the 24 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court kicked former President Donald Trump off the state's Republican primary ballot, social media outlets have been flooded with threats against the justices who ruled in the case, according to a report obtained by NBC News.

Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts public interest research, identified "significant violent rhetoric" against the justices and Democrats, often in direct response to Trump's posts about the ruling on his platform Truth Social. They found that some social media users posted justices' email addresses, phone numbers and office building addresses.

"This ends when we kill these f--kers," a user wrote on a pro-Trump forum that was used by several Jan. 6 rioters. 

"What do you call 7 justices from the Colorado Supreme Court at the bottom of the ocean?" asked another user. "A good start."

Posts — whose images and links were included in the report — noted a variety of methods that could be used to kill those perceived as Trump's enemies: hollow-point bullets, rifles, rope, bombs.

"Kill judges. Behead judges. Roundhouse kick a judge into the concrete," read a post on a fringe website. "Slam dunk a judge's baby into the trashcan."... (our emphasis)

And,

A government official was forced to flee his home after one former President Donald Trump’s supporter shared his address online, according to information revealed in an unredacted gag order issued Wednesday.

The new version of Judge Tanya Chutkan’s partial gag order was released by a federal appeals court in Trump’s Washington D.C. election interference case, the Messenger was first to report.

The original 68-page order, issued by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec. 8, included three pages with blacked out information, the Messenger notes.

Multiple state and local officials faced security threats after they were targeted by Trump or his supporters, the new version shows.

That blacked-out portion also details a state official who decided to stop making public comments after Trump tweeted about him because it was “the safest thing to do.”

These anecdotes were presented to the panel as they considered whether or not to uphold the judge's October gag order against Trump, which they ultimately decided to do... (our emphasis)

Now, consider what the threat level will be when/ if their cult leader Malignant Loser is found guilty in any of his criminal trials.

We hope that every one of the MAGAt fascists making these threats will be caught, charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.  As with the prosecutions of the January 6 insurrectionists, the process would take time and resources, and may only catch a fraction of the MAGAt morons making these threats.  But, however long it takes, they need to be called to account by the very system and the rule of law they're intent on destroying.

BONUS:  This --

 

"It's a bad idea to keep Trump off the ballot because he might respond by leading his supporters in a violent insurrection" strikes me as both a reasonable point and very much a statement of the problem.

— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) December 20, 2023

(Photo:  MAGAt morons' shirts saying the quiet part loud / Reuters)