Lawyers for the NRA late last month asked U.S. District Judge Mark Walker to keep the identity of "Jane Doe" secret, based in large part on a declaration filed by the gun-rights group's Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer, who detailed threatening emails she had received featuring derogatory words for parts of the female anatomy.
"If it were entirely up to this court, this court would not hesitate to grant the NRA's motion. One need only look to the harassment suffered by some of the Parkland shooting survivors to appreciate the vitriol that has infected public discourse about the Second Amendment. And this court has no doubt that the harassment goes both ways; Ms. Hammer's affidavit proves just that," wrote Walker, who in a footnote called the messages sent to Hammer "hateful and abhorrent" and of such an "offensive nature" that he would not repeat them in his order.