The AP reports on a 3-year sentence for Teak Brockbank’s appalling threats to kill Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold and then-Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs over their handling of the elections (and similarly appalling threats against state judges and federal law enforcement). 

The threats that were the subject of the prosecution were issued between September 2021 and August 2022, though they continued through July 2024. (The wheels of justice move, but move slowly, particularly in criminal proceedings – and that’s part of due process.)

This is a federal prosecution, pursued with vigor by both the US Attorney’s Office in Colorado and the Public Integrity Section at Main Justice.  As the DOJ wrote in a filing just last week: “Threats to elections workers across the country are an ongoing and very serious problem. . . . Election workers—as well as judges and members of the law enforcement community—deserve to know that those who threaten them will face meaningful penalties.”