Nassau County police on Thursday have responded to a bomb threat at the home of Judge Arthur Engoron, the judge presiding over former President Donald Trump’s civil fraud case, a source with direct knowledge of the situation told NBC News.

The threat comes hours before closing arguments in the trial are scheduled to begin, with those arguments still expected to proceed.

A bomb squad was called to Engoron’s home and was investigating Thursday morning; it is unclear whether Engoron was home at the time.

  • TheProtagonist
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    11 months ago

    All of those judges, attorneys and critics might end up in jail when big orange comes into power again. You just have to listen to his „Project 2025“ agenda.

    And nobody shall say they didn’t know what they were electing…

    • @[email protected]
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      1011 months ago

      The question is whether their fear of the next week overrides their fear of next year.

      Lots of judges seem to be trying really hard to dance around actually doing their jobs (Engoron is not one of them).

      • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please
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        1911 months ago

        Lots of judges seem to be trying really hard to dance around actually doing their jobs

        This is largely because you can only appeal a verdict based on mistrial. You need to be able to show the appellate courts that your original trial was unfair in some way. If the appellate court rules that your trial was fair, then the verdict stands and your appeal is tossed.

        Judges are bending over backwards to be patient with him, because they don’t want to give him any way to weasel out of it on appeal. Essentially, if they arrive at a guilty verdict, they don’t want him to be able to claim that the court was biased against him. When the appeals court goes back and looks at the trial, all they’ll see is the judge being patient with him at every single step. So his complaint against the judge won’t hold any water. These judges are playing the long game, by putting up with his shenanigans in their court they ensure he can’t try them anywhere else. Basically, they want their verdict to be as ironclad as possible, so he has no hope of getting out of it by crying to the judge’s superiors.

        • @Illuminostro
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          211 months ago

          Well, some judges are sympathetic, and owe their careers to people who want Conservative Ideology, Trump or not, conserved. The Federalist Society.

          They’re called “Conservatives” for a reason. They don’t want anything to change.

        • @Nastybutler
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          There are other reasons to appeal a decision

      • @Illuminostro
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        111 months ago

        They owe favors. And apparently, all it takes is a Tweet, or Xcretion, to get you SWATed.

    • @Illuminostro
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      311 months ago

      The next Repubofascist President will pardon them all.