Colorado Supreme Court justices faced threats on social media after ruling to remove Donald Trump from the Republican primary ballot in the state. Advance Democracy, a nonprofit, identified "significant violent rhetoric" against the justices on platforms like Truth Social in response to Trump's posts about the ruling. Threats called for killing the justices using various methods like guns, knives, and bombs. The threats fit a pattern seen after other legal developments against Trump, like the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and the Georgia election interference indictment.
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00:02 Colorado Supreme Court justices faced threats on social media after ruling to remove Donald
00:06 Trump from the Republican primary ballot in the state.
00:09 Advanced Democracy, a non-profit, identified significant violent rhetoric against the justices
00:13 on platforms like Truth Social in response to Trump's posts about the ruling.
00:18 Threats called for killing the justices using various methods like guns, knives, and bombs.
00:22 The threats fit a pattern seen after other legal developments against Trump, like the
00:25 FBI search of Mar-a-Lago and the Georgia election interference indictment.
00:29 Daniel Jones of Advanced Democracy said the consistency of violent threats was concerning
00:33 and called for social media platforms and leaders to take more action against this type
00:37 of rhetoric.
00:38 Spokespeople for the Colorado Supreme Court and Trump's campaign did not comment on the
00:42 threats at the time the article was published.
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