federal judges here in New Jersey and across the country are calling on the Trump administration to tone down hostile language being used about the courts especially on judges who handle cases related to the president's policies at a virtual event today US District Judge Esther Sales says the rhetoric has resulted in an unprecedented number of threats to those who work in the judiciary and their families including anonymous pizzas being delivered to the homes of federal judges using her murdered son's name to intimidate them solace and others want the White House to show support for the judicial branch and for more states to pass the safety law that bears her deceased son Daniel's name senior correspondent Brenda Flanigan reports we are facing what appears to be a targeted strike against judges in the form of intimidation by unknown sources new Jersey Judge Esther Sales joined a nationwide seminar called Speak Up for Justice that addressed an escalating storm of political outrage social media doxing and covert retaliation against US judges from angry extremists she described a new tactic hundreds of pizzas have been delivered to judges all over this country in the last few months and in the last few weeks judges children you're saying I I know where you live and Salah says her late son's name was included with recent pizza deliveries daniel Andre died shot dead at their family home's front door by an angry lawyer whom Salace ruled against 5 years ago and now Daniel's name is being weaponized to bring fear to judges and their children you're saying to those judges you want to end up like Judge Salace you want to end up like Judge Salace's son salace urged federal investigators to find those responsible and has urged other states to adopt laws similar to the one bearing her son's name that protects judges private data today's panel called for lawyers and judicial groups to stand up to intensified partisan attacks increasingly these attacks have included threats and attempts to intimidate judges by threatening impeachment based on nothing more than the fact that they disagree with the ruling that the judges made the panelists scrupulously avoided naming names but the most recent clash involved the administration's fury over an immigrant deportation case with officials decrying judicial tyranny and Marxist judges we have bad judges we have very bad judges and these are judges that shouldn't be allowed the president also posted this judge like many of the crooked judges I'm forced to appear before should be impeached but Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts rebuked Trump noting for more than two centuries it's been established that impeachment's not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision the normal appellet review process exists for that purpose this is their judiciary this is their rule of law this is what makes our democracy our government former Bergen County prosecutor John Mullenelli leads a new coalition that's focused on Jersey's Daniels Law governor Murphy signed it in 2020 this is now the law of the land but Trenton legislators amended the statute in 2023 to let third-party data protection firms like Atlas Privacy file lawsuits if companies didn't delete their clients private data fast enough it's filed 140 lawsuits worth millions of dollars right now the law is in such a state of disarray that it's not being enforced and that's a bad thing what matters is Daniel's law needs to be fixed moli says lawmakers should restore the original Daniels Law and then fix the problems surrounding data privacy but Atlas has argued Daniel's law is simply too great a threat to the business models of companies that harvest and use data ironically the issue is now the subject of court battles i'm Brenda Flanigan NJ Spotlight News [Music]