New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella has indicted a man from Maine. Thirty-six-year-old Christopher Butler is accused of threatening a judge -not once but twice – to influence a pending court case.
I wonder why he thought he could get away with that (cough-cough). Typos are in the original.
Count one alleges that Mr. Butler did threaten bodily injury on a phone call to the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Court Information Center, against Judge Philip Cross, a member of the judiciary, for the purpose of influencing an action by Judge Philip Cross, as part of his official duties.
Count two alleges that Mr. Butler threatened bodily injury on a phone call to the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Court Information Center, against Judge Philip Cross, a member of the judiciary, with the purpose of retaliating against Judge Philip Cross, for one of his order, which was part of his official government duties.
The obvious parallel here is the ongoing hate-fest of fearmongering and intimation that rose from the left after a draft decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson case was leaked to the press and the public. The draft would have changed the viability standard based on new science, but the party of change and evolution is notorious for preferring the “ancient ways” when the new information challenges their “belief system.”
Abortion from conception to live birth is the Hill to die on for the Dems. So much so that after two years of telling people they had no right to bodily integrity, they did a one-eighty and insisted they did. Well, women did. Sorry, some women.
It’s also clear that retooling Roe would have no immediate impact on existing abortion laws in the State. All the reliable baby-killing jurisdictions would retain their capricious definition of the word choice. See also; whatever more rapidly floats the party boat down the Karl Marx river that week. A journey whose final destination is no choice on anything for anyone (but a select few) forever.
And now I’m wondering about this indictment.
In addition, a complaint was previously filed charging Mr. Butler with misdemeanor criminal threatening, which is still pending. The complaint alleges that Mr. Butler threatened bodily injury on a phone call to the New Hampshire Judicial Branch Court Information Center against Judge Philip Cross with a purpose to terrorize any person.
Harm or threats to certain government officials is a class B felony, which is punishable by up to 7 years in State Prison and a $4,000 fine. Criminal threatening is a class A misdemeanor that is punishable by up to 12 months in the House of Corrections and a $2,000 fine.
And why we shouldn’t be asking whether state or local AGs under whose jurisdiction are people publicly threatening Supreme Court Justices are not charging them? Perp walk a few into a cell. Indict a few.
That will never stop the hard-core leftists. Getting arrested is a badge of honor. It burnishes their bona fides and fills out their resume. But the hangers-on who are just getting started with serial left-wing violence might have a second thought. Some of them have real jobs and live with or around ordinary people.
And we know that behavior violates federal law.
So here’s the question. Is the injustice the indifference of justice to protect justices, or is it charging Christopher Butler?
