The Hawaii federal judge who brought President Trump's revised travel ban to a national halt last week has become the target of threats. U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson has received the threats since his March 15 ruling, according to FBI spokeswoman Michele Ernst. Watson, a judge in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii in Honolulu, issued a scathing 43-page opinion against the travel ban the day before it was to go into effect. Trump has vowed to take the travel ban case to the U.S. Supreme Court. An appeal of a separate Maryland federal judge's ruling against the travel ban is currently pending in the U.S. 4th District Court of Appeals.

Source: Los Angeles Times March 24, 2017 19:41 UTC