Overview

• Ivers, 72, is charged with threatening to assault and murder a federal judge and a Supreme Court Justice and with interstate transmission of threats that included a defense attorney.
• Law enforcement says he printed and shared a manifesto titled “How to Kill a Federal Judge,” showed it to Wayzata Library staff on September 3, and distributed a flyer promoting it.
• A search of his vehicle recovered 20 spiral-bound copies of the manifesto, flyers, lists of federal judges, the Anarchist Cookbook, a crosshair-marked photo, a replica gun with CO2 cartridges and pellets, and fireworks.
• Ivers, previously convicted in 2019 for threatening to kill a federal judge, was re-arrested on September 5 and told investigators his book was meant to scare people, shouting, “It was supposed to!”
• The FBI, Wayzata Police, and Minnesota BCA are investigating with U.S. Marshals assistance; Ivers remains in custody pending a detention hearing as authorities note rising reports of threats to judges nationally.