MSNBC’s Chris Jansing on Friday praised a CNN interview with a sitting federal judge who was sounding the alarm about threats being made against the judicial system.

Kaitlan Collins spoke with senior Judge Reggie Walton on CNN Thursday night about the “new phenomenon” of threats against judges in the age of Trump.

Jansing said, “You rarely see public comments like this from a sitting U.S. District judge, but Reggie Walton is voicing serious concern about the verbal attacks against judges in cases involving Donald Trump. It comes after Trump again went after the judge in the New York hush money trial, as well as his daughter, calling her a ‘rabid Trump hater’ based on a social media account that, as it turns out, isn’t hers at all. It’s a situation Judge Walton warns is dangerous, and it’s one he knows all too well because he has been a target himself.”

Jansing then played a clip of the CNN interview where Judge Walton spoke about the threats received by him and his daughter from litigants with cases before him.

MSNBC Legal correspondent Lisa Rubin marveled at the fact that a sitting federal judge was speaking out publicly against the new and violent trend.

“Federal judges, by nature, are allergic to the press,” Rubin said. “They see us, and many of them run away. And so to have seen Reggie Walton give a television interview last night was absolutely extraordinary and stunning.” Rubin continued:

I know a number of federal judges, and I will tell you that on background, I spoke to at least two this morning who confirmed for me that seeing a colleague on the federal bench was, in fact, highly unusual. And one even expressed her gratitude to him for speaking up as a senior member of the judiciary perhaps nearing the end of his career.

That said, this is a “break glass” moment akin to seeing Judge Michael Luttig testify before the January 6th Committee, where he said that he thought Donald Trump was a clear and present danger to the future of our democracy. To see judge Walton, himself a sitting federal judge, not a retired federal judge like Judge Luttig, call attention to the threat environment that federal judges are under, was breathtaking.

Watch the MSNBC clip above.

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