Thread: Judge 'inundated' with death threats after Arizona ruling

July 31, 2010

BY SEAN HOLSTEGE
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton received hundreds of threats at her court offices within hours of her ruling last week on Arizona's tough and controversial immigration law.

"She has been inundated," said U.S. Marshal David Gonzales, indicating his agents are taking some seriously. "About 99.9 percent of the inappropriate comments are people venting. They are exercising their First Amendment rights, and a lot of it is perverted. But it's that 0.1 percent that goes over the line that we are taking extra seriously."

Bolton put on hold key provisions, including the heart of the statute that would give police the authority to check a suspect's immigration status during routine stops if there was reasonable suspicion that the suspect was in the country illegally. Her decision also blocks sections of the law that would require documented immigrants to carry their registration papers.

She agreed with the Obama administration that the Arizona law was unconstitutional because legal immigrants and U.S. citizens "will necessarily be swept up" by it.

Last year, the Arizona Republic reported that the number of threats nationwide against federal judges and prosecutors, plus jurors and witnesses, more than doubled in the last six years, from 592 to nearly 1,300. Gonzales indicated at the time that the federal judges in Arizona get three to four threats a week.

The increase in threats coincides with more online use and the proliferation of blogs, he said. A quick scan shows many sites and discussion forums where Bolton is called a traitor or other, unprintable names.

"She's tough as nails. She takes this as all part of her job," Gonzales said.

Bolton was nominated to the U.S. District Court by President Bill Clinton in 2000 at the recommendation of Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), who said he was "deeply disappointed" by her ruling.
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Why are we not being told who made the threats and what manner of threats they are?

Did these threats come in from those who wanted the whole law blocked? Could it have been from the radicals on the left?

This article leaves the reader with the impression it is from those who WANT the law to be enforced in it's entirety. However, we all know those on the radical left are also capable of threats.

I'd like to know what the threats said, against the judge for not blocking the whole law, or threats because the law was blocked at all. Seems like a media blackout on facts.

I'm not only wondering who made the threats but if the lefties sent threats disguished as people against the law.

Originally Posted by AmericanElizabeth

Why are we not being told who made the threats and what manner of threats they are?

No doubt they were threats from the very people that have been participating in all the blatant civil disobedience. However you can bet the ones of us who have remained peaceful will take the blame.

we will not know what the threats are because law enforcement or secret service will have to investigate them to see who made the threat and how real it is