The sad fact is that in America today, threats against federal officials, including judges, are all too common — and on the rise.

But as FTC’s Gabe Roth writes in his Bloomberg column today, those charged with protecting our 2,300 federal judges have been caught up in the culture wars emanating from the White House, leaving them and their families vulnerable. This is especially true with many of the threats against the judges coming from President Trump’s inner circle.

What’s worse is that many of the resources used to prevent these threats from turning into hostile acts are now severely lacking.

To read more about this problem and what we can do to fix it, here’s the op-ed in the original and non-paywalled forms.