A Minnesota man was convicted by a federal jury in St. Paul on August 7, 2026, on all three counts related to writing and distributing a lengthy manuscript threatening federal judges, Reuters reports. Robert Phillip Ivers, 73, was found guilty of mailing threatening communications and of threatening to murder a federal judge; he had already been convicted in 2019 of threatening a different federal judge, and was arrested again in September 2025. According to prosecutors, library staff in Wayzata, Minnesota alerted authorities after he printed and showed them copies of the document, and a later search of his car turned up 20 bound copies of what prosecutors characterized as a manifesto naming specific judges and other individuals. Among those named was the Iowa-based judge who had presided over his 2019 trial and sentenced him to 18 months in prison, and who died in January. Prosecutors had initially charged Ivers with threatening a Supreme Court justice as well but dropped that count. The case arrives amid a sharp rise in threats against the federal bench — the U.S. Marshals Service has logged threats against 299 different judges this fiscal year.

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