Roger Stone makes surreal emergency court filing after making threats against judge

| 7:42 pm EST February 18, 2019
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Roger Stone appears to have figured out what the rest of us knew a few hours ago: he’s completely screwed. Stone posted a deranged rant about federal judge Amy Berman Jackson, along with an image of a crosshair just above her head. This was widely interpreted as a violent threat and/or call to violence against the judge, and observers pointed out that Stone was likely to see his bail revoked over it. Now Stone is in an absolute panic.

It’s not just that Roger Stone deleted the Instagram post in question. Now he’s had his lawyers make an emergency court filing, in a surreal attempt at convincing the judge not to toss him in jail.

Stone’s court filing simply reads “Undersigned counsel, with the attached authority of Roger J. Stone, hereby apologizes to the Court for the improper photograph and comment posted on Instagram today. Mr. Stone recognizes the impropriety and had it removed.” Has there ever been a more surrral court filing?

By making the filing tonight instead of tomorrow morning, Roger Stone and his lawyers are making clear that they’re worried the judge could have Stone behind bars before tomorrow morning. Stay tuned.