"Since Lefkow's husband is Jewish, she didn't qualify under the "survival" tenet of the Church."
Maybe her husband was the target. He is a lawyer?
Again, Hale didn't ask anyone to kill her. An undercover fed suggested "exterminating" the rat and Hale said do whatever you want but I work from within the law. A weirdo to be sure, but I think he was entrapped. Some people SHOULD go to jail for being stupid, and the "Pontifix Maximus" is a prime example. One of his followers could have done it. The Judge's home address and pictures of her family were posted on a racist discussion group.
Incredible...and incredible that they only had police security for a short time; and that they did not replace it with 'private armed security'.