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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Law with June Grasso from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: A shooting last Sunday at New Jersey Federal judge Estra

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Speaker 1: Salis's home that killed her son and wounded her husband

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Speaker 1: highlights the threats to judges outside the courthouse. While attacks

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Speaker 1: on federal judges and their families are rare, the U. S.

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Speaker 1: Marshals Service, task with protecting about hundred federal judges and

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand, three hundred other court officials, reported increases in

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Speaker 1: threats and inappropriate communications against the judiciary in recent years.

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Speaker 1: Joining me as Bloomberg Law reporter Madison Alder tell us

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Speaker 1: about the suspect and his legal background. So, the suspect here,

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Speaker 1: Roy Dun Hollander, is you know, a lawyer. He had

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Speaker 1: some big law tighs um, but he hadn't worked for

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Speaker 1: a big law firm in quite some time. And what

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Speaker 1: we found at our research, she has now deceased by

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Speaker 1: the way um. According to the Youth Attorney's Office in

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Speaker 1: the districts of New Jersey, he was not apprehended. Some

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Speaker 1: reports are saying that he was found of the potentially

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Speaker 1: a self inflicted gunshot wound. And you know Hollander had

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Speaker 1: a case before Sallas, this judge whose family was attacked.

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Speaker 1: He appeared before her in case about the male only

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Speaker 1: military draft. From what we can tell as the docket,

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Speaker 1: he was physically before her in court. Um looks like

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Speaker 1: Do we know if the judge was the target. We

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Speaker 1: do not know yet. The Attorney General bar announced that

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Speaker 1: there's going to be an investigation of this by the

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Speaker 1: Marshall Service. You know, they're probably looking into that, but

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Speaker 1: there haven't been further details on on if she was

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Speaker 1: the target of attack. It we rarely hear about attacks

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Speaker 1: on judges. How rare are they They're they're pretty rare. Um,

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Speaker 1: They overall are are pretty rare over the years, though

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Speaker 1: there there have been several They come to mind when

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Speaker 1: another one happens again. Um, so you know there have

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Speaker 1: been um at least four judges that have been killed

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Speaker 1: in attacks. And then there's another case in two thousand's

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Speaker 1: five where a judge's husband and mother were attacked in

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Speaker 1: her home and that case actually prompted an appropriation by Congress.

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Speaker 1: It's homarly dollars to fund security systems for judges and

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Speaker 1: security systems for their homes. So you know, some of

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Speaker 1: these attacks have prompted action by Congress before. You know,

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Speaker 1: there hasn't been discussions of that this time. It is

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Speaker 1: still early, but it isn't unprecedented that you know, security

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Speaker 1: is heightened after an attack like this. Has there been

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Speaker 1: a slight increase in violence against judges according to the

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Speaker 1: Marshall's Office, So there haven't been an increase in violence

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Speaker 1: against judges, but there has been an increase in incidents

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Speaker 1: inappropriate communications and threats. They say that that has risen

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Speaker 1: by more than In their budget submission, the Marshal Service

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Speaker 1: budget submission for UM, they addressed this and you know

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Speaker 1: said that they expected to rise steadily over the next

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Speaker 1: few years. UM and they're saying that could come from

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Speaker 1: complex thrusts is what they call them. Uh. So you

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Speaker 1: know this is coming as you know, judges maybe are

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Speaker 1: their their positions and the types of threast that they're getting.

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Speaker 1: Aren't judges protected by the U. S. Marshal Service, they

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Speaker 1: are UM the U S. Marshal Service. You know, I

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Speaker 1: I spoke to one man who who used to be

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Speaker 1: UH the U s Marshal John S. Mufflers, the former

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Speaker 1: administrator chief Inspector of the National Center for Judicial Security,

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Speaker 1: and he told me that these courts are fortresses. Um,

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Speaker 1: they are very protected, but the more likely uh place

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Speaker 1: like any public figure, they're more likely subject to an

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Speaker 1: attack when it is at their home at a place

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Speaker 1: You know, and it's supposed to people who said this

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Speaker 1: particular situation seems like it was probably pretty unavoidable. You know.

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Speaker 1: You can only do so much to to protect yourself

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Speaker 1: martial service protection at their home. But um, this after

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Speaker 1: that two thousand five attack on the judges on a

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Speaker 1: federal judges family, Congress appropriated new new money to fund

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not like they have a bodyguard stationed

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Speaker 1: Supreme Court sustices are a different story. They do have

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Speaker 1: heightened protection where they go and you know, where they're speaking,

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Speaker 1: of the Judicial Conferences Committee on Judicial Security, and he

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Speaker 1: said that the attack on the judge is home would

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Speaker 1: thing that judges have to worry about all the time. Right, Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we don't know if she was the subject, but in

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Speaker 1: many of these other attacks, judges were the subject of

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Speaker 1: the job. Unfortunately, let's turn to the court houses themselves now.

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Speaker 1: Federal and state courts have been struggling to figure out

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Speaker 1: how to resume more normal operations while protecting public health

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Speaker 1: after the pandemic forced them this spring to postpone jury

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Speaker 1: trials and whole more proceedings remotely via video and audio.

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Speaker 1: Courts have begun to reopen, but some courts are pumping

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Speaker 1: the brakes on reopening, Well, we've actually seen a few courts,

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Speaker 1: seeing a little bit of tension between courts UH, staff

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Speaker 1: have been a couple of lawsuits, there's been at least

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Speaker 1: So we have seen a little bit of pushback, and

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Speaker 1: in New York that came to ahead when several public

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Speaker 1: saying that in person hearings you know, aren't aren't they

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Speaker 1: So there are some there's some legal action on this

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Speaker 1: So what is this? What is the status of the

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Speaker 1: So the New York court system has been doing a

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Speaker 1: How did they work it out? Do they decide before

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Speaker 1: this executive order or this presidential memorandum, the court did

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Speaker 1: They're going to be lawsuits filed, guaranteed lawsuits filed. Will

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Speaker 1: they planned to deliver that nfortunateate count to the President

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Speaker 1: But if the President is Donald Trump, then Free Court

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Speaker 1: include undocumented individuals or not include a documented individuals. Thanks

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