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Subject: Liberal hate rhetoric causing more threats against Supreme Court Justices
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 16:12:00 -0400
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Washington An Alaska man was arrested Wednesday for allegedly
threatening to assassinate six members of the Supreme Court and harm
two family members, the Justice Department said.
Panos Anastasiou, 76, is accused of sending more than 465 messages to
the Supreme Court through an online portal, which included violent,
racist, and homophobic rhetoric, according to court filings.
Anastasiou allegedly threatened to assassinate, kidnap, torture, hang,
behead and execute the justices, and encouraged other people to join
him in committing acts of violence, the Justice Department said.
He faces nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13
counts of making threats in interstate commerce. Anastasiou appeared
before a federal magistrate judge Wednesday and pleaded not guilty.
"We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder
and torture Supreme Court Justices and their families to retaliate
against them for decisions he disagreed with," Attorney General
Merrick Garland, a former federal appeals court judge, said in a
statement. "Our justice system depends on the ability of judges to
make their decisions based on the law, and not on fear. Our democracy
depends on the ability of public officials to do their jobs without
fearing for their lives or the safety of their families."
The Supreme Court declined to comment on the charges. An attorney for
Anastasiou was not listed in court records.
The targeted justices are not named in the indictment and identified
only as "Supreme Court justices 1-6." Charging documents state that
some of the threats allegedly made by Anastasiou "were intended to
intimidate" the justices and "retaliate against them for official
actions" they had taken in their capacity as judges.
The messages were sent between January and July, when the Supreme
Court ended its term, court documents.
In one of the messages, sent Jan. 4, Anastasiou allegedly threatened
to murder one justice by saying he'd like to see the justice and an
unidentified former president "hanging together from an Oak tree," and
said he would "gladly provide the rope and pull the handle." The
unnamed former president is likely former President Donald Trump, as a
subsequent message included in court filings references him as a
"convicted criminal." Trump became the first former president to be
found guilty of a crime when a New York jury convicted him on 34 state
felony counts earlier this year.
Another message on May 10 included a threat to kill the same justice
by "lynching" and included a racial slur, according to legal
documents.
Court filings state that in a May 16 message referring to a second
member of the Supreme Court, Anastasiou allegedly threatened to kill
the justice by putting "a bullet in this mother f***ers head." The
Justice Department said a message sent the following day was targeted
not only at the first two justices, but also two unnamed family
members. It warned of sending "fellow Vietnam veterans" to "spray" one
Supreme Court member's house with bullets with hopes of killing them.
The same message again used a racial slur, and Anastasiou allegedly
said he hoped the first justice and his "white trailer trash ...
insurrectionist wife are visiting."
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