Why are Trump and Republicans relentlessly attacking judges?:
"Authoritarianism involves arranging government to keep the leader safe from prosecution and allow him to commit crimes and corrupt acts with impunity. That means judges and prosecutors are always among those harassed and persecuted, along with lawyers who defend dissidents or don’t fall into line with the government."
“The threats to judges & prosecutors in the US are a metric of the rising assault on demo. “We had never even contemplated that one of us could get killed in this job,” said US Dist Judge Royce Lamberth, who was interviewed for the Reuters article. #judge Lamberth had been harassed by drug dealers & gangsters, but was unprepared for the volume of hatred from another kind of thug: #maga loyalists. “I couldn’t believe how many death threats I got,” he said.” -Ruth Ben-Ghiat
Justice System Under Putin
All members of Russia's highest courts are nominated by the president and appointed by the Federation Council (the upper house of the legislature). Members of all courts appointed for life. Many members of the Federation Council have been picked by the Kremlin and are loyal to Putin.
I am glad if I can be even a small encouraging factor. The messages of progressive people like you are very important and we ought not to take the message or the messenger for granted. At no time has it been more important to counter the lies of rightwing extremism.
"There is no escaping the intent of Trump and his supporters to discredit the democratic justice system as a whole. That is why U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton recently went on CNN to remind Americans that judges should be able to carry out their duties without the threat of physical harm. Inciting violence against judges is 'an attack on the rule of law,' said Walton…."