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According to a new article by the Associated Press, threats towards American judges are becoming more common in the last year and a half.

Threats against federal judges are on a record-setting pace this year, nearly 18 months after the family of a federal judge was killed in Chicago.

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Threats and inappropriate communications have quadrupled over 10 years ago. There were 201 reported such incidents in the 1996 government spending year and 943 in the year that ended Sept. 30, the Marshals Service said.

Is it rude to suggest that it’s possible that part of the increase of the hostility towards American judges is because of the White House Administration’s constant negative rhetoric about “activist judges” and Republican Congressmen’s similiar bashing of the judicial branch? The article continues:

Supreme Court Justice
Ruth Bader Ginsburg revealed in February that she and former Justice Sandra Day O’Connor were threatened a year ago by someone who called on the Internet for the immediate “patriotic” killing of the justices.

Ultra-conservative Republican pundit Ann Coulter has of course famously called for “joked” about murdering of Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens earlier this year.

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