BREAKING: Liberal South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's home is burning to the ground after an explosion. SLED is investigation as arson and refer attack as Judge Goodstein had been receiving multiple threats.
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Her husband, a former state senator is in the hospital. pic.twitter.com/D8dRENKCfU
The home of South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein — who ruled against the Trump administration and received death threats — was blown up and burned on Oct. 4, reports The Guardian:
The blaze at the home of Diane Goodstein – a Democrat-appointed circuit court judge – erupted on Saturday, sending three members of her family to the hospital, including her husband, a former state senator...
Goodstein, who has served on the state judicial bench since 1989, in September issued a temporary injunction on the release of the state’s voter files to the Trump administration-led US justice department.
Goodstein’s ruling was later publicly criticized by an assistant attorney general for the justice department’s civil rights division, Harmeet Dhillon. The division has been at the forefront of efforts to acquire information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers and social security numbers, of more than 3 million registered voters under an executive or targeting “non-citizen voter registration.” The state supreme court of South Carolina later reversed Goodstein’s decision.
A spokesperson for the South Carolina state law enforcement division (Sled) told FITSNews: “The investigation is active and ongoing. More information may be available as the investigation continues.”
(Sources: FITSNews, The Guardian)