Man allegedly wanted 6 Supreme Court justices ‘tortured worse than’ Kim Jong Un and dared them to come to his house after FBI visit

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite). Inset: A home owned by Panos Anastasiou, who has been charged in federal court for allegedly sending graphic threats to U.S. Supreme Court justices and their families, is shown in Anchorage, Ala., Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait in Washington, Friday, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite). Inset: A home owned by Panos Anastasiou, who has been charged in federal court for allegedly sending graphic threats to U.S. Supreme Court justices and their families, is shown in Anchorage, Alaska, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

A 76-year-old man from Alaska has been arrested for threatening to kill, drown, torture and lynch six Supreme Court justices and two of their family members. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, the man’s, “racist, homophobic, vile rhetoric” was meant to intimidate the justices and retaliate against them for their actions on the bench.

Panos Anastasiou, a Greek-born man who came to Alaska in 1957, was indicted on 22 charges by an Alaska grand jury Tuesday and arrested Wednesday at his home in Spenard, Alaska.

According to prosecutors, Anastasiou sent more than 465 threatening messages to six justices through the Supreme Court’s public website from March 10, 2023 to July 16, 2024. The justices themselves were not named in the indictment, which said that the messages, “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.”

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