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Woman arrested for threatening to kill Texas federal judge in abortion pill case

A woman was arrested in Florida on Wednesday on charges that she threatened to kill a Texas federal judge who earlier this year suspended approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, according to court records.

Alice Marie Pence placed a call from Florida to the chambers of a federal judge in Amarillo, Texas, federal court around March 12 and threatened to kill him, according to a grand jury indictment. Though he was not named in the indictment, the only federal judge in Amarillo is U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.

Pence is charged with one count of threatening interstate communication and one count of influencing a federal official by threat. The indictment, filed in Kacsmaryk’s court, says the threat was in retaliation for the judge’s performance of his official duties.

Ragdoll_X ,
@Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world avatar

Ironic that one of the few cases where the police decided to go after someone for making a death threat it’s a pro-choice woman, while the hundreds of Trump supporters who have threatened election workers go unpunished. From an article by Reuters in which they looked for and found dozens of said Trump supporters:

[…] The news organization has documented nearly 800 intimidating messages to election officials in 12 states, including more than 100 that could warrant prosecution, according to legal experts.

The examination of the threats also highlights the paralysis of law enforcement in responding to this extraordinary assault on the nation’s electoral machinery. After Reuters reported the widespread intimidation in June, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force to investigate threats against election staff and said it would aggressively pursue such cases. But law enforcement agencies have made almost no arrests and won no convictions.

In many cases, they didn’t investigate. Some messages were too hard to trace, officials said. Other instances were complicated by America’s patchwork of state laws governing criminal threats, which provide varying levels of protection for free speech and make local officials in some states reluctant to prosecute such cases. Adding to the confusion, legal scholars say, the U.S. Supreme Court hasn’t formulated a clear definition of a criminal threat.

Later in the article when talking about a Trump supporter from Vermont they add, with a clear dose of sarcasm:

Late last year, between Nov. 22 and Dec. 1, he left three messages with the secretary of state’s office from a number that state police deemed “essentially untraceable,” according to an internal police email obtained through a public-records request. The man identified himself as a Vermont resident in one voicemail.

Reporters connected with him in September on the phone number police called untraceable. In five conversations over four days spanning more than three hours, he acknowledged threatening Vermont officials and described his thinking.

According to a report by the New York Times around 75 people were indicted for threatening lawmakers between 2016 and 2021 (With Republicans having made more threats). In that same period there were 35,240 cases of threats being made against lawmakers according to the Capitol police.

MagicShel ,

Whatever people think of right-wingers, they don’t deserve death threats. However it is of interest to me that she gets prosecuted and will likely get the book thrown at her, while so many on the other side get ignored or let off with sleight consequences. I suppose we’ll see.

Sir_Kevin ,
@Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

It’s a real shame that she called him…

jjjalljs ,

Let’s take a moment to remember that while jury nullification is a double edged blade, it exists. If someone killed a fascist or sympathizer, I would nullify.

PunnyName ,

She’s not wrong.

oDDmON ,

The indictment, filed in Kacsmaryk’s court, says the threat was in retaliation for the judge’s performance of his official duties.

And definitely not for being the crown prince of assholes, uh-huh.

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