Overview

• Judge Jack McConnell said his court received more than 400 threatening voicemails this year including calls for his assassination and six credible death threats.
• Judge John Coughenour recounted a swatting incident that brought armed officers to his home after a false murder report.
• Judges Esther Salas and Robert Lasnik described coordinated pizza deliveries made in Salas’s late son’s name to signal that judges’ personal addresses were known to attackers.
• More than 300 challenges to President Trump’s second-term agenda are progressing through federal courts alongside escalating attacks on judges by his administration and congressional allies.
• A White House spokesperson condemned violence against judges and the panel called on lawyers and the public to defend the judiciary’s independence.