politics

Judges house was burned down and her husband and son injured jumping from the house to avoid fire, no cause yet, but judge had been recieving death threats for weeks for blocking trump administration's attempt to get voter data 

https://time.com/7323442/south-carolina-judge-diane-goodstein-house-fire-trump-political-v

One of my more radical beliefs is that many more classes of governance actions should be anonymous / secret ballot (eg. I've advocated for secret-ballot UN general assembly votes before)

This situation is a good argument for judges' identities being hidden (!!) when they make their rulings. The function of a judge is to rule according to the facts as interpreted through their conscience, not to be "accountable" to violent mobs.

The issue here is not that judges are doxxed. In fact that's healthy in a well-functioning society, because it lets them take part in public life to represent their institution.

This attack is a symptom of state capture in the US that won't be solved by anon voting.

Judges should be doxxed, I'm saying their individual decisions should not be.

I can see secret ballots working when a large group votes, but I can’t see it for judges. That courts are public is an important pillar of the justice system and judges write long decisions that are public record. It’s not feasible to have judges’ identities known, but hide who made a specific ruling.