by jpitney | Sep 6, 2022 | Civility, Elections, Public Service, Violence
Neil Vigdor at NYT: In Wisconsin, one of the nation’s key swing states, cameras and plexiglass now fortify the reception area of a county election office in Madison, the capital, after a man wearing camouflage and a mask tried to open locked doors during an election...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2022 | Elections, Public Service, Violence
Ryan Williamson at LegBranch.org: The Homeland Security Committee recently held a hearing on current and ongoing threats to elections. Much of the discussion centered on threats of violence against election workers, and there was considerable agreement from the...
by jpitney | Aug 11, 2022 | Judiciary, Public Service, Violence
Madeline Fixler at JTA: Bruce Reinhart, the federal judge in Florida who signed the warrant allowing the FBI to raid former president Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property on Tuesday, has been hit with a wave of antisemitic threats online. The outburst has appeared on...
by jpitney | Aug 4, 2022 | Civility, Elections, Public Service, Violence
Perry Stein and Tom Hamburger at WP: The Justice Department has reviewed more than 1,000 hostile threats against election workers over the past year, leading to federal charges in five cases and one conviction, Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite told the...
by jpitney | Aug 1, 2022 | Congress, Crime, Violence
Andrew Solender at Axios: A series of high-profile security incidents is rattling members of Congress and prompting Capitol security officials to take major steps to shore up lawmakers’ security. Why it matters: Threats against lawmakers have risen...
by jpitney | Jun 25, 2022 | Protest, Violence
President Biden: I call on everyone, no matter how deeply they care about this decision, to keep all protests peaceful. Peaceful, peaceful, peaceful. No intimidation. Violence is never acceptable. Threats and intimidation are not speech. We must stand against violence...
