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Republican-appointed judges raise alarm over Trump attacks on law

Federal D.C. Judge Reggie B. Walton warned Trump’s attacks on hush-money trial judge and others could lead to violence. Reagan, Bush-appointed judges decry Jan. 6 revisionism, threats.

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March 29, 2024 at 3:12 p.m. EDT
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton at the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse in Washington in February. (Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
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A Republican-appointed judge denounced Donald Trump’s social media attacks against the judge presiding over the former president’s hush money trial in Manhattan and his daughter, calling them assaults on the rule of law that could lead to violence and tyranny.

“When judges are threatened, and particularly when their family is threatened, it’s something that’s wrong and should not happen,” U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton, told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins in a live interview Thursday. He added, “It is very troubling because I think it is an attack on the rule of law.”