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 risks to transparency and long-term systemic health outweigh the benefits, potentially creating a cure worse than the disease. Instead, I’d advocate for stronger protections within a transparent framework: better security for judges, stricter laws against threats, and perhaps hybrid anonymity in extreme cases.

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sounds good, but the recent events in america show that the stronger protections, institutions, and democracy are dependent on those in power, and that laws are intrinsically worthless.