Reuters' important work on this front has, however, come with a disturbing caveat: Those who've made the threats have gone largely unpunished. From a report in November: "After Reuters reported the widespread intimidation in June, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force to investigate threats against election staff and said it would aggressively pursue such cases. But law enforcement agencies have made almost no arrests and won no convictions. In many cases, they didn't investigate."

That's starting to change. Reuters reported this morning:

U.S. federal agents arrested a Nevada man for threatening a state election worker last year and telling her that she was "going to f------ die" for stealing the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump, the Justice Department said on Thursday, the second arrest in a week by its election threats task force.

In the new case, a Las Vegas man named Gjergi Luke Juncaj was taken into custody this week and appeared in a federal court yesterday. He faces four counts of making threatening phone calls and the possibility of two years in prison on each count.

This comes on the heels of separate charges, which were announced last week, against a Texas man named Chad Christopher Stark, who's been accused of making violent threats against Georgia election and government officials.

Clarence Thomas is facing calls for his recusal in the case over race-based affirmative action in college admissions that the court agreed to hear this week.

The case, which is being brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, is the latest potential conflict of interest involving Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas. Ginni, as she is known, is a prominent right-wing activist who openly supports MAGA platform issues that frequently come before the Supreme Court.

Ginni Thomas founded her own lobbying company, Liberty Consulting, in 2010. By her own description, she has “battled for conservative principles in Washington” for over 35 years. Justice Thomas’s influence has soared in recent months with the rightward shift of the court following Donald Trump’s three nominations, to the extent that some pundits now dub him the unofficial chief justice of the court.
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This afternoon, Axios' Jonathan Swan reported that "Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him." Swan added that his sources told him that "U.S. government officials learned about Carlson's efforts to secure the Putin interview. Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach — and that's the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA that he had been targeted." On his show Wednesday night, Carlson confirmed he had sought an interview with Putin and that only him and his executive producer knew about the request. Before Axios' report, Carlson went on Fox Business to allege that the NSA leaked his emails to journalists. Meanwhile, a Tucker Carlson Tonight producer filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA. "I am requesting any call records, texts, or emails the NSA has obtained from journalist Tucker Carlson's cell phone or email," wrote Alex Pfeiffer, investigative producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight. "I am requesting any memos or documents related to surveilling journalist Tucker Carlson. I am requesting any communication between NSA officials regarding journalist Tucker Carlson."