Following the murder today of Arizona’s Chief Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll at the shooting incident in Arizona, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service told TPM the federal agency is taking “appropriate actions to ensure the security of the federal judiciary.”“For obvious reasons I cannot discuss any actions we may be taking as a result of the shooting in Arizona,” Jeff Carter, Chief of the Office of Public Affairs for the U.S. Marshals Service told TPM in a statement. “What I can tell you is that we take our judicial security mission very seriously and continuously monitor for threats.”
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