{"id":145943,"date":"2026-03-13T16:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/13\/the-silence-is-deafening-judge-esther-salas-blasts-doj-over-threats-of-judicial-intimidation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T16:48:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T00:48:38","slug":"the-silence-is-deafening-judge-esther-salas-blasts-doj-over-threats-of-judicial-intimidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/13\/the-silence-is-deafening-judge-esther-salas-blasts-doj-over-threats-of-judicial-intimidation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Silence Is Deafening\u2019: Judge Esther Salas Blasts DOJ Over Threats Of Judicial Intimidation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe the men and women who serve the United States Marshal Service, I think they\u2019re taking it seriously. I have a problem, I guess, in saying to you that I\u2019m confident that the Department of Justice is taking it seriously, because I have yet to see any leader in that office denounce these types of intimidations. Instead, what do I see from the leaders of the DOJ? They\u2019re calling us \u2018deranged,\u2019 calling us \u2018lunatics,\u2019 \u2018leftist lunatics,\u2019 saying and declaring a war on \u2018rogue\u2019 judges in an open setting that was videoed for all to see on YouTube. So, what I see is pretty strong rhetoric from the Department of Justice condemning us, and I don\u2019t see that equally strong rhetoric condemning these threats of intimidation. There is, from my vantage point, a lopsidedness. I think they obviously could alleviate a lot of concern if they came forward and talked about this investigation in a very general way, and showed that it matters to them. That the lives and safety of judicial officers and their families and personnel matter to them, but the silence is deafening,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Judge Esther Salas<\/a> of the District of New Jersey, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning a possible investigation into the pizza delivery doxxing of federal judges at their private homes. Threats against members of the judiciary have rapidly increased during Trump\u2019s presidency, and Salas is no stranger to them. In 2020, her son was fatally shot and her husband was wounded<\/a> at their home by a lawyer who referred to Salas as an \u201caffirmative action\u201d case and a \u201clazy and incompetent Latina judge.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post \u2018The Silence Is Deafening\u2019: Judge Esther Salas Blasts DOJ Over Threats Of Judicial Intimidation<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I believe the men and women who serve the United States Marshal Service, I think they\u2019re taking it seriously. I have a problem, I guess, in saying to you that I\u2019m confident that the Department of Justice is taking it seriously, because I have yet to see any leader in that office denounce these types of intimidations. Instead, what do I see from the leaders of the DOJ? They\u2019re calling us \u2018deranged,\u2019 calling us \u2018lunatics,\u2019 \u2018leftist lunatics,\u2019 saying and declaring a war on \u2018rogue\u2019 judges in an open setting that was videoed for all to see on YouTube. So, what I see is pretty strong rhetoric from the Department of Justice condemning us, and I don\u2019t see that equally strong rhetoric condemning these threats of intimidation. There is, from my vantage point, a lopsidedness. I think they obviously could alleviate a lot of concern if they came forward and talked about this investigation in a very general way, and showed that it matters to them. That the lives and safety of judicial officers and their families and personnel matter to them, but the silence is deafening,<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014\u00a0Judge Esther Salas<\/a> of the District of New Jersey, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, concerning a possible investigation into the pizza delivery doxxing of federal judges at their private homes. Threats against members of the judiciary have rapidly increased during Trump\u2019s presidency, and Salas is no stranger to them. In 2020, her son was fatally shot and her husband was wounded<\/a> at their home by a lawyer who referred to Salas as an \u201caffirmative action\u201d case and a \u201clazy and incompetent Latina judge.\u201d <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is the managing editor of Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to\u00a0email<\/a>\u00a0her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post \u2018The Silence Is Deafening\u2019: Judge Esther Salas Blasts DOJ Over Threats Of Judicial Intimidation<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature,\u00a0Quote of the Day. I believe the men and women who serve the United States Marshal Service, I think they\u2019re taking it seriously. I have a problem, I guess, in saying to you that I\u2019m confident that the Department of Justice is taking it seriously, because I have yet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Staci-Zaretsky-r4MTak.jpg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}