Judges alarmed as cyberstalking and pizza intimidation rise amid MAGA attacks on courts

A group of federal judges tore into the Trump administration for the escalating threats to their safety — noting that the president's attacks on any judge who rules against his policies has led to threats, cyberstalking, and even unsolicited pizza deliveries to the judges' homes.

According to Politico, the judges in question were speaking at a recent white-collar crime conference held by the American Bar Association.

"Judge M. Margaret McKeown, a senior judge on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, said she is particularly troubled by calls to impeach judges for their rulings — a punishment that President Donald Trump and some members of Congress have suggested," said the report. "'When I read that, I think, what is this? Is this Turkey? Is this Tunisia? Is this Hungary? Is this Poland?. said McKeown ... 'No, it’s the United States where these impeachment calls are coming out,' she said, adding that the tactic is 'a pure political play, but I think it’s a dangerous one.'"

U.S. District Judge Richard F. Boulware II of Nevada agreed, saying the MAGA attacks on judges have hit close to home for him.

"Boulware ... warned of the rise of threats against judges, saying he testified last week at the sentencing of a woman convicted of cyber-stalking him and his family. He also disclosed that hours after he spoke out about threats at a prior year’s conference, an unsolicited pizza delivery arrived at his home — an intimidation tactic that is used to indicate the sender knows the recipient’s address."

The Trump administration has lost dozens of cases in lower courts around the country on policies across the board, particularly regarding his efforts for mass deportation and mass detention of immigrants with little to no due process. Often, the conservative-controlled Supreme Court has reversed many of these decisions in emergency "shadow docket" rulings with no explanation, prompting frustration from judges who don't understand the precedent the Supreme Court is working off of to overrule them.