On July 13th, an Act Blue donor shot President Donald Trump. ActBlue Donor There was an alleged attempt to assassinate him on Sunday.
An Alaska man arrested Wednesday for allegedly threatening to torture and kill six U.S. Supreme Court justices and several of their families has also been identified as an ActBlue donor. Over 80 posts He put his name on a Democratic fundraising group.
Department of Justice Announced Panos Anastasios, 76, was indicted Thursday on nine counts of threatening a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce.
The Justice Department did not say which of the six justices on the Supreme Court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, it had targeted.
“We allege that the defendant made repeated heinous threats to kill and torture the Supreme Court justice and his family in retaliation for a sentence he disagreed with,” Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. “Our system of justice depends on judges' ability to sentence people according to the law, not fear.”
According to Indictment In the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska, Anastasio allegedly sent more than 465 messages to the Supreme Court via a public website between March 10 and July 16, 2023.
The messages “contained violent, racist and homophobic language and included threats of torture, hanging and firearm assassination, and encouraged others to take part in violent acts.”
The Supreme Court's six-judge bench infuriated many extremists with its June 2022 ruling. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
The indictment said some of the threats were intended to intimidate six unnamed judges and retaliate against them for actions they had taken in their official capacity as federal judges.
Anastasiou allegedly threatened to hang one judge from an oak tree, lynch another, and kill a third with a “bullet in the head,” as well as threaten to behead, strangle or drown all six judges, and to shoot and kill their families.
While it's unclear why the six justices angered Democratic donors, the Supreme Court's six justices certainly angered many extremists with their June 2022 ruling. decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization.
Following this ruling, many pro-abortion extremists committed hate crimes and terrorist attacks, targeting pro-life pregnancy centers, churches, and individuals.
After the draft Dobbs After the opinion was leaked, Nicholas John Roethke, a California man whose trial begins next year, was found with a gun and a knife near Judge Brett Kavanaugh's home and was apparently charged with attempted murder.
Roethke allegedly claimed he was going to give his life purpose by killing the judge. Reported The Washington Post.
During part of the time that Anastasiou was allegedly making the threats, Democrats in Washington, D.C., were actively attacking conservative Supreme Court justices who they didn't want to get the results they wanted on the 2020 election, the Jan. 6 protests and even cases involving former President Donald Trump's immunity. United States vs. Donald Trump.
Senator Elizabeth Warren said in June: “[Justice Samuel] Alito is an extremist who is far removed from mainstream America. His growing power on the Supreme Court is a threat to our democracy.” Reported Leech.
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (R-Indiana) Tweeted“Justice Alito responded like an activist. There is a role for activists, but it is not on the Supreme Court.”
The Blaze News previously reported that House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) was Accused Justice Samuel Alito said in May that he has “sympathy for violent right-wing insurrectionists.”
House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) was among the Democrats happy to go along with demonizing Alito.
Clark's adult son was arrested and charged in January 2023 with assaulting a Boston police officer. said “Justice Alito flies in his home a flag that supports insurrection against the government, promotes religious nationalism, and attacks free and fair elections,” the May 23 statement said.
“This is not just an example of extremism overcoming conservatism. It is a threat to the rule of law and a serious violation of ethics, integrity, and Justice Alito's oath of office,” Clark continued.
This isn't the first time in recent years that heated Democratic rhetoric has struck a chord with extremists.
The Blaze News previously reported that a Trump assassin suspect arrested on Sunday directly quoted the Democrat. Prior to his arrest, Ryan Rouse posted: how “This election is about democracy,” said Kamala Harris. Standard line.
If convicted, Anastasiou faces up to 10 years in prison for each of the nine counts of threatening a judge, and up to five years in prison for each of the remaining 13 counts.
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