Violent threats and calls for impeachment on social media platforms against US judges have skyrocketed by 327 percent since last year, according to new research from the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE).
Many of the posts are violent and politically charged. “THIS JUDGE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED AND CHARGED W TREASON,” one user posted on TikTok in March, referring to Judge James Boasberg, who found probable cause for contempt against the Trump administration after it refused to turn around deportation flights on March 15.*
"That bitch is guilty of treason, sedition and insurrection; lock up that bitch and send her to gitmo," a user called Old School Cowboy wrote on Gab about California judge Jennifer Thurston, who ruled last month that Customs and Border Protection agents could no longer stop undocumented immigrants without reasonable suspicion that they were in violation of the law.
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*Grammatical errors related to capitalization and punctuation were not rectified by OSAP.