Colorado Supreme Court justices face a flood of threats after disqualifying Trump from the ballot

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Colorado Supreme Court justices face a flood of threats after disqualifying Trump from the ballot
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The latest round of threats fits a familiar pattern: Trump faces a legal setback, and officials face threats.

In the 24 hours since the Colorado Supreme Court kicked former President Donald Trump off the state's Republican primary ballot, social media outlets have been flooded with threats against the justices who ruled in the case, according to a report obtained by NBC News.

Advance Democracy, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that conducts public interest research, identified "significant violent rhetoric" against the justices and Democrats, often in direct response to Trump's posts about the ruling on his platform Truth Social. They found that some social media users posted justices' email addresses, phone numbers and office building addresses.

"This ends when we kill these f--kers," a user wrote on a pro-Trump forum that was used by several Jan. 6 rioters.

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Hopefully they catch these terrorists and charge them with felonies, then yall-qaeda will learn real fast the right bear arms can in fact be infringed.

I wish. They'll just let them talk until they shoot up a place.

After all the Jan6 and threats to politicians, the worst you can get is a few years, which will be a worthy "sacrifice" for these idiots