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A white supremacist blogger was arrested at his North Bergen, N.J., home and charged with threatening to assault or murder three Chicago-based judges who refused to overturn local ordinances banning handguns.
Hal Turner, 47, a former Internet radio talk show host, was taken into custody by FBI agents, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.
Prosecutors quoted a Turner posting as saying: “Let me be the first to say this plainly: These judges deserve to be killed.” The posting referred to the murder of the mother and husband of Chicago-based federal Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow in February 2005.
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