A Minnesota man was charged with threatening to assault and kill a federal judge, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Tuesday.

Robert Phillip Ivers, 72, was first arrested on Sept. 3 after police received reports that Ivers allegedly was printing copies of a 236-page manifesto titled “How to Kill a Federal Judge” at a local library.

Ivers showed copies of his manifesto to library staff, pointing specifically to a page that talked about killing children, according to prosecutors. He also allegedly distributed a three-page “flyer” touting the manifesto as “designed to teach extremists on how to plan, train, hunt, stalk and kill anyone including judges, their family members, politicians and more!”

The flyer also said the “harsh reality is that judges are going........

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