Right-wing websites have called Judge Royce Lamberth, a Republican who was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, a tool of a "deep-state" conspiracy that is primed to destroy Donald Trump and all of his followers.
A report from Reuters states Judge Lamberth has been reportedly targeted by a myriad of unsavory individuals.
From criminals to drug cartels and even al Qaeda, threats on Lamberth posted on Trump-friendly websites have propagated like May flies in the month of May.
Lamberth issued a prison sentence to an Idaho woman who pleaded guilty to joining the Jan. 6 insurrection in 2021, and that action was followed by the voicemail in chambers being filled with death threats. His home voicemail received the same treatment and was filled with violent death threats.
"I could not believe how many death threats I got," Lamberth told Reuters, revealing the calls to his home for the first time.
Trump faces a slew of lawsuits and indictments leading up to the 2024 Presidential Election, and those loyal to his cause have gone into overdrive with a campaign of scorched earth intimidation against judges, prosecutors, and other court officials, according to information compiled by the U.S. Marshal's Service and reviewed by Reuters.
The information is coming via right-wing message boards, and interviews with dozens of law enforcement agents, judges, and legal experts.
"...One Of Us Could Get Killed In This Job"
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and a defendant in four criminal cases that alleged an eye-popping 91 felonies, has attacked judges and has constantly claimed their judgments were political in nature, he has also taken swipes at prosecutors in attempts to cast the judicial system as biased against him and his supporters.
Whenever Trump rattles the cage of discontent, a surge in threats against the officers of the court is sure to follow.
The report further states that, since Trump began his bid for the White House in 2015, the average number of hostile communications against judges, prosecutors, judicial staff, and court buildings has tripled.
The information comes from the US Marshals Service, which is tasked with protecting court buildings.
"We had never even contemplated that one of us could get killed in this job."
The annual average of 1,180 incidents reported in the decade before Trump ballooned to 3,810 in the seven years since he entered politics as a candidate for the White House and began openly criticizing judges.
The Marshals documented approximately 27,000 threats and harassing communications targeting federal courts, a number unprecedented in the service's 234-year history.
There is no national data collection for threats against state and local judges. Many states do not even track the problem.
