[DM] Several reports said the circuit court judge had received death threats over the past few weeks following her decision to prevent the state from handing over sensitive voter registration documents to the federal government.
A judge whose $1.5 million beach house burned down after a suspected arson explosion has spoken to the Daily Mail in the wake of the inferno.
Judge Diane Goodstein, 69, said: 'I'm alright,' when contacted Monday morning, two days after her property in Edisto Beach, South Carolina, was consumed by flames.
Goodstein sounded cheerful over the phone and said she would be 'happy to direct you to a court administrator' to answer further questions about the fire.
The judge was out walking on the beach when the suspected arson attack happened - just weeks after she had issued a decisive ruling against the Trump administration.
Her former Democrat state senator husband Arnold Goodstein jumped from a first floor window to escape the blaze and suffered multiple broken bones. Two others were also hospitalized.
Authorities are now working to determine what may have caused the four-bedroom, four bath home to go up in smoke.
Trump's Department of Justice had requested South Carolina officials turn over the personal data of more than 3.3 million voters, including names, addresses, birth dates, driver's license numbers and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers. |