US Marshals sent to protect Hawaii judge who stopped Trump's latest travel ban

[drm604]

http://www.businessinsider.com/hawaii-judge-death-threat-2017-3

About a dozen deputies from the US Marshals Service have been sent to provide 24-hour protection for the federal judge who implemented an emergency stop to a new version of President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban, according to Hawaii News Now.

US District Judge Derrick Watson has reportedly received death threats after ruling that Trump's executive order - which denied people from six majority Muslim nations from entering the US, and allowed the government to limit refugee intake from any country - was significantly founded on "religious animus."

[Cha]

1. JHC! Be safe from trump murderous assholes

[Lucinda]

2. FFS

[yeoman6987]

3. Seems like a lot of resources.

I can't believe one or two couldn't be adequate.

[onetexan]

4. must mean the threat was that serious

[Hekate]

5. They're not doing this for fun and games you know. The threats must have been credible and terrible.

[oasis]

6. Yup. Hawaii has very strict gun laws and not a lot of whackos. nt

[SunSeeker]

7. It is 24 hour protection. You need 12 to adequately cover 3 8-hour shifts.

12 marshals gives you just 4 marshals per 8-hour shift. You need a minimum of 3 if you want 2 there at all times, so that agents can take turns taking bathroom and meal breaks. And they can't work 7 days a week, each agent needs to get 2 days off per week. Do the math.

The judge's family may be in danger as well. One marshal may need to go to the store, school etc.with family members.

[msanthrope]

8. Well.....agents have to sleep, too. nt

[Lee-Lee]

9. Shift work

They are likely doing 12 hour swing shifts, to make that work you need 4 shifts.

That gives you 3 per shift. Now allow for vacations, illness and the fact that they will have to appear in court and other duties and 3 per shift allows one to be gone and give you 2.