{"id":153597,"date":"2021-02-20T14:02:13","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T19:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=153597"},"modified":"2021-02-20T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T21:58:22","slug":"n-j-federal-judge-who-was-targeted-in-home-shooting-says-scotus-justice-sonia-sotomayor-was-also-targeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-j-federal-judge-who-was-targeted-in-home-shooting-says-scotus-justice-sonia-sotomayor-was-also-targeted\/","title":{"rendered":"N.J. federal judge who was targeted in home shooting says SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor was also targeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fn-j-federal-judge-who-was-targeted-in-home-shooting-says-scotus-justice-sonia-sotomayor-was-also-targeted%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=153597&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2375629\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2375629\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2375629 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1257245397-655x437.jpg\" alt=\"NORTH BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY - JULY 20: A view of the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas. on July 20, 2020 in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Salas&#039; son, Daniel Anderl, was shot and killed and her husband, defense attorney Mark Anderl, was injured when a man dressed as a delivery person came to their front door and opened fire. Salas was not injured. US marshals and the FBI are investigating. (Photo by Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)\" width=\"655\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2375629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NORTH BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY \u2013 JULY 20: A view of the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas. on July 20, 2020 in North Brunswick, New Jersey. (Photo by Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 1:45 PM PT \u2013 Saturday, February 20, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A New Jersey federal judge who was targeted in a fatal shooting said the suspected shooter also had his eye on a Supreme Court justice. During an interview Friday, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas claimed investigators found a folder with information regarding Justice Sonia Sotomayor.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, a gunman dressed as a delivery person opened fire on Salas\u2019s home. He wounded her husband and killed her 20-year-old son before shooting himself. The gunman reportedly tried a case in Salas\u2019s court and allegedly held prejudicial views against Latina judges.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2375630\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2375630\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2375630 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1257245396.jpg\" alt=\"NORTH BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY - JULY 20: A view of the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas. on July 20, 2020 in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Salas&#039; son, Daniel Anderl, was shot and killed and her husband, defense attorney Mark Anderl, was injured when a man dressed as a delivery person came to their front door and opened fire. Salas was not injured. US marshals and the FBI are investigating. (Photo by Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2375630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NORTH BRUNSWICK, NEW JERSEY \u2013 JULY 20: A view of the home of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas. (Photo by Michael Loccisano\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe need to understand that judges are at risk,\u201d Salas said to interviewer Bill Whitaker. \u201cWe need to realize that we put ourselves in great danger, every day for doing our jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">U.S. District Judge Esther Salas says the FBI found evidence that the man who killed her son also targeted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RZn8X3QjEK\">https:\/\/t.co\/RZn8X3QjEK<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kBuQPvzR1i\">pic.twitter.com\/kBuQPvzR1i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/60Minutes\/status\/1362760545443721219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 19, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Since the shooting, Salas has pushed for legislation to scrub judges\u2019 personal information from the internet. This came as reports showed a 400 percent surge in death threats against federal judges.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/n-y-rep-reed-considering-gubernatorial-run-to-challenge-gov-cuomo\/\">N.Y. Rep. Reed Considering Gubernatorial Run To Challenge Gov. Cuomo<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181265,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1257245397-655x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"N.J. federal judge who was targeted in home shooting says SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor was also targeted","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dzm0ugdauank9.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-1257245397-655x437.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"N.J. federal judge who was targeted in home shooting says SCOTUS Justice Sonia Sotomayor was also targeted","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}