Man Charged With Threatening To Kill Supreme Court Justices, Donated To Democrats 82 Times

The Department of Justice has indicted an Alaskan man for threatening to kill six Supreme Court Justices.

Panos Anastasiou, 76, allegedly made over 400 violent threats to Justices via an online portal.

Newsweek reported that Anastasioucrats over 82 times within the last eight years, amounting donated to Demo to $700.

In the indictment, the DOJ shared, “Anastasiou sent over 465 messages to the Supreme Court via an online portal that were “intended to harm and convey threats of harm.”

BREAKING: The DOJ has indicted an Alaska man named Panos Anastasiou for making over 400 violent threats against “six Supreme Court justices”

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Check out what Newsweek reported:

Panos Anastasiou, a 76-year-old Alaska man, arrested Wednesday for threatening to injure and kill six Supreme Court justices, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, has donated more than $700 to Democrats over the past eight years.

In a filing released Wednesday, the Justice Department said Anastasiou sent “over 465 messages to the Supreme Court via an online portal” that were “intended to harm and convey threats of harm” toward six justices and two of their family members. The justices who were threatened were not identified, and nine Justices sit on the High Court.

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The messages, which were sent between March 10, 2023, and July 16, 2024, reportedly contained “violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination via torture, hanging, and firearms, and encouraged others to participate in the acts of violence.”

According to the Department of Justice’s press release and the court filing, the messages escalated in violent imagery starting on January 4, 2024, when he sent a threat to murder “Supreme Court Justice 1 by ‘providing the rope’ to ‘hang[]…from an Oak tree.'” Anastasiou also threatened Justice and Justice 2 to send “‘fellow veterans’ to ‘spray’ their homes with bullets ‘hopefully killing’ them,” the court documents say.

BREAKING: The DOJ has indicted Panos Anastasiou, an Alaska man, for threatening to torture and kill 6 Supreme Court Justices and their families.

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— Ashley Hayek (@ashleyhayek) September 19, 2024

Per CBS News:

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.”