Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers oddly reference NJ judge’s slain son in bail bid

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell invoked the murder of New Jersey Judge Esther Salas’ son to argue that the British socialite’s renewed motion for bail should remain largely under seal.

“Given the sensitive subject matter of this case, the sureties have legitimate fears for their safety if they are publicly identified,” wrote Maxwell’s lawyer Christian Everdell in the Nov. 30 federal filing unsealed Friday.

“As we have all been recently reminded with the tragic case of the death of Judge Esther Salas’s son, there are people who are capable of committing horrible acts of violence — even against innocent third parties — by convincing themselves that their actions are justified.”

The unusual reference to the murder of the federal judge’s son, Dan Anderl, by a deranged defense attorney appeared as a footnote in the document.

The filing says that Maxwell, who is locked up at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while she awaits trial on sex trafficking charges, has received numerous online death threats.

The defense letter was filed in response to US District Judge Alison Nathan’s request that Maxwell’s lawyers elaborate on their reasons for pushing for the sealing of parts of her bail application and a closed-door hearing to discuss it.

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Pope Francis Calls for ‘New Social Justice’ to Challenge Utopia

ROME — Pope Francis called for a “new social justice” Sunday in which all well-intentioned people will challenge the reigning utopia.

Addressing “social justice judges” from the African and American continents via streaming, the pope congratulated them for their commitment to “social rights,” asserting that the very fact that men and women “come together to think about their work and to build the new social justice is, without a doubt, excellent news.”

The pontiff, who has been a vocal proponent of a “great reset” after the coronavirus pandemic, urged his hearers to “not lose sight of the distressing picture in which a small part of humanity lives in opulence, while an increasingly large number lives without dignity with their most elementary rights ignored or violated.”

“We cannot think disconnected from reality,” he said. “And this is a reality that you must bear in mind.”

The pope insisted that social justice is “a collective work” in which all people of good will challenge the reigning utopia. “Justice is a task that has to be conquered every day, because the imbalance is a temptation of every minute,” he said.

Justice also involves overcoming the temptation to ignore others, “especially the weakest,” Francis said, lamenting that “we have become used to sidestepping or ignoring situations until they impact us directly.”

“Unconditional commitment means taking charge of the pain of the other and not slipping into a culture of indifference,” he added.

In their task of bringing about a “new social justice for the planet,” the pope urged his hearers to pay attention to history, to draw inspiration from “the struggles, the triumphs, and the defeats” of those who gave their lives for “a full and integrated humanity.”

This effort will only succeed if it takes place as a grassroots initiative involving all people, “without pretending to be an enlightened elite,” Francis said, because “what God asks of us believers is to be God’s people, not God’s elite.”

In the battle for social justice solidarity is necessary to overcome “the structural causes of poverty, inequality, lack of work, land and housing,” he said.

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