Justices in Colorado face death threats after Trump ruling

Justices on the Colorado supreme court have received a barrage of death threats after it ruled to exclude Donald Trump from the state's presidential ballot next year because of his attempts to cause insurrection.

- Lauren Aratani

A report compiled by Advance Democracy, a non-partisan, nonprofit organisation, said there was "significant violent rhetoric" on social media against the justices and Democrats, according to NBC News.

Some of the worst of it was posted on fringe websites. "Behead judges" and "slam dunk a judge's baby into the trash can" were among the messages.

Another post on the Donald, a pro-Trump forum where a Trump supporter once publicly bragged about his involvement in the 6 January insurrection and was arrested as a result, said that "this ends when we kill these fuckers".

Daniel Jones, president of Advance Democracy, told NBC News: "The normalisation of this type of violent rhetoric and lack of remedial action by social media entities - is cause for significant concern.