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.

It’s a strong point: transparency isn’t always virtuous. In contexts like judging or UN voting, anonymity can protect integrity by freeing decision-makers from coercion, mob pressure, or political signaling. Accountability should be to law or principle — not to public outrage.