“They found another weapon, a Glock, more ammunition. But the most worrying thing they found was a manila folder with an investigation into Judge Sonia Sotomayor,” Salas said in the interview.
A Supreme Court spokeswoman declined to comment on the report, saying the court “does not discuss security as a matter of court policy”.
“Judges know that criticism comes with the territory, but threatening statements of this kind from the highest level of government are not only inadequate, they are dangerous,” Roberts said at the time.
Salas and others are working to pass legislation that protects the personally identifiable information of judges from posting on public Internet sites.
“Who knows what could have happened?” Salas told CBS. “But we need to understand that the judges are at risk. That we put ourselves in great danger every day for doing our job.”
James Duff, then director of the U.S. Courts’ Administrative Office, told Congress last year that there were 4,449 threats and inappropriate communications in 2019, against 926 such incidents in 2015, according to the US Marshals Service.