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Texas woman accused of threatening to kill judge overseeing Trump election
case and a congresswoman | AP News
August 16, 2023
HOUSTON (AP) - A Texas woman was arrested and has been charged with
threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington and a member of Congress.
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in
Washington and left the threatening message - using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan - on Aug. 5, court records show.
Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threatening call, according to a criminal complaint.
In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the election
conspiracy case against Trump, "You are in our sights, we want to kill
you," the documents said. Prosecutors allege Shry also said, "If Trump
doesn't get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you," and she
threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat running
for mayor of Houston, according to court documents.
A judge earlier this week ordered Shry jailed. Court records show Shry is represented by the Houston public defender's office, which did not
immediately return a message seeking comment on Wednesday.
Trump has publicly assailed Chutkan, a former assistant public defender
who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, calling her
"highly partisan" and " VERY BIASED & UNFAIR!" because of her past
comments in a separate case overseeing the sentencing of one of the
defendants charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Chutkan in a hearing Friday imposed a protective order in the case
limiting what evidence handed over by prosecutors the former president and
his legal team can publicly disclose. She warned Trump's lawyers that his defense should be mounted in the courtroom and "not on the Internet."
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