An Ohio man was sentenced Monday for threatening to kill the governor when she was Arizona's secretary of state.
Share on linkedin Attorney General Merrick Garlan in Washington, D.C., last week. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/Getty ImagesA significant number of reports of officials targeted during the 2020 and 2022 elections work in the swing state of Arizona, whichMonday that the U.S. was in a "new era in which the election community is scapegoated, targeted, and attacked."was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for threatening to kill Hobbs when she was serving as Arizona's secretary of state in 2022.
A total of 10 have been sentenced and seven of these received prison sentences of more than 18 months, according to Keller.Most of the reports received didn't result in criminal cases. "Because so much of the hostility does not cross the line into criminal threats, prosecution alone is not the answer," he said.
"The normalization of personal threats and attacks on government officials and their families is contributing to an election environment in which people are committing previously unthinkable crimes."Share on twitter
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