{"id":2343873,"date":"2024-09-20T10:39:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-scotus-attacks-encourage-politically-motivated-threats\/"},"modified":"2024-09-20T10:40:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T14:40:53","slug":"dems-scotus-attacks-encourage-politically-motivated-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-scotus-attacks-encourage-politically-motivated-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems\u2019 SCOTUS Attacks Encourage Politically Motivated Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-scotus-attacks-encourage-politically-motivated-threats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2343873&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A 76-year-old man from Alaska, named Panos Anastasiou, has been arrested for making violent threats against six of the nine Supreme Court justices. The Department of Justice (DOJ) \u2062stated that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigan-ag-charges-sixteen-trump-2020-electors\/\" title=\"Michigan&#039;s Attorney General charges 16 Trump 2020 electors.\">faces\u200d multiple felony charges<\/a>, including making threats against federal judges. Anastasiou allegedly sent over 465 messages through a public website maintained by the court, expressing his\u2062 intent to harm the\u200c justices due to disagreement with \u2062their rulings. The identities of the targeted justices have not\u2064 been \u2064disclosed, a\u2063 move interpreted as an attempt to shield \u2064them from public scrutiny amidst rising violent rhetoric directed at\u2064 conservative members of the court. The threats reportedly coincided with the Court&#8217;s rulings that\u200d align with conservative \u2062interests and public Democratic\u2062 criticisms of the justices. Attorney General Merrick Garland pointed\u2064 out that these threats stem\u2063 from Anastasiou&#8217;s ire toward decisions he opposed, with language that included threats of lynching and murder. This case highlights increasing\u2064 concerns about threats against the judiciary linked to political \u2064disputes and the broader implications of political rhetoric.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 76-year-old Alaskan man is in custody after he allegedly threatened to assault, kidnap, lynch, torture, murder, and assassinate six of the nine Supreme Court justices. The names of the justices targeted, however, were withheld by the Department of Justice &mdash; likely because they confirm Democrats&rsquo; incendiary rhetoric against the conservative members of the court is working.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/alaska-man-arrested-threatening-us-supreme-court-justices-their-family-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">announced<\/a> on Thursday that Panos Anastasiou faces nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce after he sent more than 465 messages pledging harm against justices via &ldquo;a public website the court maintained.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland acknowledged in the Thursday press release that the communications were rooted in Anastasiou&rsquo;s desire to &ldquo;retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with.&rdquo; Yet, neither he nor the Department of Justice memo announcing the arrest identified exactly which of the nine SCOTUS members and their family members were terrorized.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the DOJ went out of its way in its 11-page <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.akd.74712\/gov.uscourts.akd.74712.2.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">September 18 indictment<\/a> of Anastasiou to disguise which high bench presiders were in danger for upholding their constitutional duties by reducing the justices to numbers &ldquo;1-6.&rdquo; Six of the nine sitting SCOTUS justices were nominated to the high bench by Republican presidents.<\/p>\n<p>The document accusing the Alaskan of several felonies, however, shows Anastasiou&rsquo;s threats were well timed not only with a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/17\/the-supreme-court-ethics-scandal-is-the-new-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat-manufactured ethics scandal<\/a>, but also decisions secured specifically by the court&rsquo;s conservative majority. <\/p>\n<p>In May, as corporate media ramped up <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/28\/dems-alito-freakout-is-a-false-flag-operation-to-take-down-the-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Democrat-manufactured<\/a> attacks on Republican-nominated justices like <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/04\/18\/clarence-thomas-has-no-reason-to-recuse-himself-from-any-j6-scotus-cases-and-its-not-even-close\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Clarence Thomas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/05\/20\/justice-alito-becomes-latest-target-of-fabricated-controversies-to-delegitimize-scotus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Samuel Alito<\/a>, Anastasiou promised &ldquo;lynching&rdquo; for the unnamed &ldquo;Justice 1,&rdquo; who he previously demanded &ldquo;hang[]&hellip;from an Oak tree,&rdquo; and swore he would end &ldquo;Justice 2&rdquo; and his family&rsquo;s lives by &ldquo;putting a bullet in his [&hellip;] head.&rdquo; Additionally, Anastasiou expressed hope that Justices 1 and 2 and their families would be killed by &ldquo;&lsquo;fellow veterans&rsquo; who &lsquo;spray&rsquo; their homes with bullets.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hours after SCOTUS<a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/23pdf\/23-939_e2pg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> ruled 6 to 3 on July 1<\/a> that presidents have &ldquo;absolute immunity&rdquo; for &ldquo;actions within his conclusive and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rejects-trumps-motion-to-dismiss-jan-6-case-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Judge rejects Trump\u2019s motion to dismiss Jan. 6 case - Washington Examiner\">preclusive constitutional authority&#038;rdquo<\/a>; and &ldquo;at least presumptive immunity&rdquo; for all &ldquo;official acts,&rdquo; Anastasiou threatened to &ldquo;murder,&rdquo; &ldquo;torture,&rdquo; and &ldquo;execute&rdquo; six of the justices with &ldquo;intent to impede, intimidate, and interfere&rdquo; with the court&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-modernity-and-its-discontents\/\" title=\"Liberal Modernity and Its Discontents\">decision-making authority<\/a>. He also once again singled out &ldquo;Justices 1 and 2&rdquo; with messages carrying the same violent overtones.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, Anastasiou had elevated his threats to include &ldquo;beheading&rdquo; and death by &ldquo;drowning, firearms, strangulation, and &lsquo;lynching.&rsquo;&rdquo; He was also caught &ldquo;encouraging others to assassinate them.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s not difficult to deduce from the timing and nature of Anastasiou&rsquo;s communications exactly who he sought to deter from upholding equal justice under the law, so why would the DOJ go to great lengths to conceal that information? Because the rising threat of violence against Democrats&rsquo; political enemies is an indictment of the party&rsquo;s penchant for inciting that violence. <\/p>\n<p>For years, high-profile Democrats such as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer have&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/03\/chuck-schumer-used-violent-rhetoric-to-sic-a-mob-on-two-supreme-court-justices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pledged<\/a>&nbsp;that the conservative-controlled court would &ldquo;pay the price&rdquo; for ruling against their party&rsquo;s partisan agenda.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won&rsquo;t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions,&rdquo; Schumer said, naming Trump&rsquo;s first two SCOTUS appointees. <\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist&rsquo;s Mollie Hemingway <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/02\/03\/chuck-schumer-used-violent-rhetoric-to-sic-a-mob-on-two-supreme-court-justices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in 2021, &ldquo;the threat was so alarming that even leftist activists such as Laurence Tribe condemned it.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>A reminder that the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SCOTUS?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SCOTUS<\/a> abortion decision comes after Schumer warned justices that they would &ldquo;pay&rdquo; for a wrong decision: <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I want to tell you Gorsuch. I want to tell you Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind and you will pay the price.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KnhpYZQgSO\">pic.twitter.com\/KnhpYZQgSO<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryMargOlohan\/status\/1273704716866859009?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>When the Supreme Court ruled to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade <\/em>in 2022, Democrats all across the nation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/03\/lets-burn-this-place-down-left-calls-for-violence-after-treasonous-scotus-abortion-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called for the high bench&rsquo;s violent destruction<\/a>. Yet, Garland, the DOJ, and the FBI turned a blind eye.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Hundreds of pro-abortion activists,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/12\/white-house-press-secretary-encourages-angry-mobs-surrounding-supreme-court-justices-homes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">encouraged by the Biden White House<\/a>, also descended on Republican-nominated justices&rsquo; homes after declaring an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/letter-abortion-group-janes-revenge-open-season-pro-life-pregnancy-centers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;open season&rdquo;<\/a>&nbsp;on pro-lifers and SCOTUS. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britt.senate.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/U.S.-Marshals-SCOTUS-Training-Slides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Training slides<\/a>&nbsp;from a DOJ whistleblower suggest that U.S. Marshals were explicitly warned against arresting the mob terrorizing justices, even though the protestors were in clear violation of federal law.<\/p>\n<p>It was during that time that a man&nbsp;&ldquo;upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision&rdquo; was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/08\/cnn-blames-republicans-for-attempted-left-wing-assassination-of-supreme-court-justice-brett-kavanaugh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">arrested<\/a> near Justice Brett Kavanaugh&rsquo;s Maryland residence with weapons and other tools that would help him assassinate the Trump appointee. <\/p>\n<p>Yet, the buck didn&rsquo;t stop there. <\/p>\n<p>During his March 2024 State of the Union address, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/07\/biden-threatens-supreme-court-justices-for-upholding-the-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publicly threatened<\/a> the justices who voted to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Mere months after that, the White House debuted a radical scheme to help Democrats fulfill their <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/29\/biden-debuts-radical-scheme-designed-to-help-democrats-pack-the-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dark-money-groups-are-funding-the-lefts-court-packing-agenda\/\" title=\"Dark Money Groups Are Funding The Left\u2019s Court-Packing Agenda\">court-packing agenda<\/a>. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The DOJ&rsquo;s deliberate decision to keep the names of the targeted justices under wraps should come as no surprise given the bureaucracy&rsquo;s treatment of SCOTUS. The same came be said about corporate media which, after gladly publishing leaked versions of the decision that kicked off some of the recent violence against the court and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/05\/02\/rather-than-smearing-justices-democrats-should-be-asking-them-for-ethics-lessons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">devoting countless articles<\/a> to help Democrats discredit and delegitimize the bench, also appears uninterested in knowing exactly who might be on the receiving end of Anastasiou&rsquo;s violent aims.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/19\/us\/politics\/supreme-court-justices-threats-fbi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New York Times reported<\/a> on Thursday that &ldquo;public records indicate that [Anastasiou] is not affiliated with any political party.&rdquo; Federal Election Commission contribution data, however, shows the Alaskan man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/receipts\/individual-contributions\/?contributor_name=Panos+Anastasiou&amp;two_year_transaction_period=2024&amp;min_date=01%2F01%2F2023&amp;max_date=12%2F31%2F2024\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">donated to Democrat fundraising platform ActBlue<\/a> 11 times since July 2023. At least half of his donations came in during the same time period he was believed to have delivered his violent messages to the court.<\/p>\n<p>The corrupt institution known for running interference for the Biden administration over the last four years appears to once again be risking its neck to protect the Democrat Party&rsquo;s derri&egrave;re by refusing to identify which justices were targeted by Anastasiou. Perhaps because the revelation of those names would expose the Democrat regime and propaganda press&rsquo; roles in the scheme to take down SCOTUS as well.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 76-year-old man from Alaska has been arrested for allegedly making threats to assault, kidnap, lynch, torture, murder, and assassinate six of the nine Supreme Court justices. The Department of Justice has not disclosed the names of the targeted justices, possibly indicating that Democratic leaders&#8217; inflammatory comments about conservative justices are having an effect. On Thursday, the DOJ announced that Panos Anastasiou is facing nine charges related to threats against a federal judge and 13 counts for making interstate threats after he sent over 465 messages threatening harm through a public website maintained by the court. <\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Merrick Garland noted in a press release that Anastasiou&#8217;s communications stemmed from his desire to retaliate against justices for decisions he disagreed with. However, neither Garland nor the DOJ memo specified which justices were threatened. In fact, in its September 18 indictment of Anastasiou spanning 11 pages, the DOJ referred to the targeted justices only as numbers &#8220;1-6,&#8221; avoiding direct identification.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment reveals that Anastasiou&#8217;s threats coincided with both a scandal involving ethics allegations against Republican-nominated justices and rulings made by the court\u2019s conservative majority. For instance, in May\u2014when media scrutiny intensified on Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito\u2014Anastasiou threatened &#8220;lynching&#8221; for &#8220;Justice 1,&#8221; whom he previously suggested should be hanged from an oak tree. He also vowed to kill &#8220;Justice 2&#8221; and his family.<\/p>\n<p>Following a Supreme Court ruling on July 1 affirming presidential immunity regarding official actions within constitutional authority\u2014a decision made by a conservative majority\u2014Anastasiou escalated his threats to include intentions to murder and torture six justices in order to disrupt their decision-making process.<\/p>\n<p>Days later, his threats included methods such as beheading and drowning while encouraging others to carry out assassinations against them. The timing of these communications suggests clear targets aimed at deterring certain judges from fulfilling their judicial responsibilities; yet it raises questions about why the DOJ would choose not to disclose this information publicly.<\/p>\n<p>High-profile Democrats have long warned that conservative judges would face consequences for decisions opposing their agenda; Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer notably stated they would \u201cpay\u201d for such rulings. Following significant rulings like overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022\u2014which prompted calls among Democrats for violent retribution\u2014the response from law enforcement agencies was minimal despite clear violations occurring outside Republican-nominated judges\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n<p>In light of these events\u2014and President Biden\u2019s subsequent public remarks threatening those who voted against Roe v. Wade\u2014it is unsurprising that details regarding which specific justices were threatened remain concealed by authorities who seem intent on shielding political interests rather than addressing rising violence directed at political adversaries.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports indicate that while Anastasiou claims no party affiliation publicly, he has made multiple donations through Democrat fundraising platforms during periods when he was sending violent messages toward SCOTUS members\u2014a detail suggesting potential connections between his actions and broader partisan tensions surrounding judicial matters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2343874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2022_Roberts_Court_Formal_083122_Web-1200x675-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3933,6994,4855],"class_list":["post-2343873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-dems","tag-scotus","tag-threats"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2022_Roberts_Court_Formal_083122_Web-1200x675-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2343874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}