A woman in Texas was arrested last week after making multiple death threats against a federal district judge who appointed a special master to review documents the government seized at former President Donald Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate.
The Mar-A-Lago estate was owned by former President Donald Trump.
According to a criminal complaint, Gish was arrested by federal prosecutors on September 6 after she left three voicemails for the judge.
Gish referred to herself as Trump's hitman and said he was "marked for assassination" along with Cannon, telling her in voicemails to "stand the f–k down or get shot"
According to the government, federal agents visited Gish's house on September 4 and she confirmed that she left a message.
There is reason to believe that Gish may be suffering from a mental disease or defect that renders her mentally incompetent, according to the Justice Department.
Gish has previously made threats against Trump and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the filing notes, was charged with assault with a deadly weapon in 2020 and has previously claimed to be a CIA agent.
Cannon is a judge in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
The government wants to evaluate Gish's competency.
Cannon has drawn criticism for her ruling ordering a third-party special master to review the more than 11,000 documents seized at Mar-A-Lago and determine if any are protected by attorney-client or executive privilege. The DOJ had argued that appointing a special master would hurt its investigation into the White House documents that Trump brought back to Mar-A-Lago. Cannon argued that a special master was needed because some of Trump's personal belongings were also seized and so that he wouldn't suffer "reputational harm" if indicted. The New York Times referred to her legal reasoning as "deeply problematic", "radical" and "laughably bad", and the Justice Department asked her to pause part of the ruling as it relates to classified documents.
A number of threats have been made against federal judges and justices in the last few months. Congress passed a bill in June increasing the security of justices after threats were made against them. The judge who signed off on the DOJ's search warrant for Mar-A-Lago has faced threats from Trump supporters, as well as anti-Semitic threats.
The judge gave the special master to review the documents.
The DOJ wants the court to stop the special master from reviewing the classified documents.
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