Esther
Salas
(Screen
cap
via
YouTube)
Ed.
note:
Welcome
to
our
daily
feature, Quote
of
the
Day.
I
believe
the
men
and
women
who
serve
the
United
States
Marshal
Service,
I
think
they’re
taking
it
seriously.
I
have
a
problem,
I
guess,
in
saying
to
you
that
I’m
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’re
calling
us
‘deranged,’
calling
us
‘lunatics,’
‘leftist
lunatics,’
saying
and
declaring
a
war
on
‘rogue’
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’t
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,
— Judge
Esther
Salas
of
the
District
of
New
Jersey,
in
comments
given
to
Law.com,
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’s
presidency,
and
Salas
is
no
stranger
to
them.
In
2020,
her
son
was
fatally
shot
and
her
husband
was
wounded
at
their
home
by
a
lawyer
who
referred
to
Salas
as
an
“affirmative
action”
case
and
a
“lazy
and
incompetent
Latina
judge.”
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