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.

Today this stuff sounds crazy and "why is the crypto bro pushing zk wizard tech solutions to a social problem", but in the 2020s age of easy physical retaliation (including by foreign adversary states), I think we'll see such ideas enter the overton window more.

I agree in principle. But how do you hold bad judges accountable?

In San Francisco we have a particular judge that keeps releasing violent offenders over and over. 

If public didnt know, couldn’t vote for another one next time!