US Judge Recounts Security Concerns After Trump Election Ruling

Federal appeals judge Stephanos Bibas was so concerned over the blowback from a 2020 opinion he authored rejecting a Trump election-related challenge that he told his children to be careful when answering the door at their home.

Some of the phone calls, emails, and letters sent to his chambers at the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit were “laudatory,” but others were “very angry,” Bibas said Wednesday at a judicial conference.

He found himself asking a clerk to help him scrub his home address off of the internet, and “warning my kids, ‘please don’t fling the front door ...