The jury deliberating the charges against January 6th domestic terrorist Brandon Fellows, a relatively run-of-the-mill whacko who didn’t do anything exceptional violent during the insurrection, shows the impact the campaign of violence undertook by Donald Trump and his sycophants has on American society. As shown in a note the jurors sent to Judge Thomas McFadden, they fear that Fellows–who represented himself in his criminal trial–will be able to get their personal information.
It’s a legit concern with Fellows, who has tried to use tricks he learned on the internet that “sovereign citizens” claim are Get Out of Jail Free cards they “discovered” in the Constitution–things that avoided Constitutional and legal scholars for centuries. One effort was to contact family members of the judges overseeing his various cases, a move that Fellows thought would force judges to recuse themselves. He tried it–to no avail–in a New York case regarding him stalking an ex-girlfriend. He also contact his parole officer’s mother under the same legal theory.