"The message to me was 'we know where you live, we know where your kids live, and they could end up dead [View all]

🧵 NEW: A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration.

Then the harassment began.

Six credible threats to his life.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail:

Link to tweet

Federal judges detail rise in threats, 'pizza doxings,' as Trump ramps up criticism
Federal judges are demanding more help and attention as threats against them escalate

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/federal-judges-detail-rise-threats-pizza-doxings-trump-124258002


By NICHOLAS RICCARDI July 31, 2025, 2:26 PM


In 2020, a disgruntled litigant posing as a deliveryman opened fire at the New Jersey home of District Judge Esther Salas, killing her 20-year-old son Daniel Anderl. Five years later, as President Donald Trump steps up his criticism of federal judges who have blocked some of his agenda, dozens of judges have had unsolicited pizzas delivered to their homes, often in Daniel Anderl’s name.

District Judge John J. McConnell, Jr. of Rhode Island, who stalled Trump’s initial round of across-the-board spending cuts, is among those who received pizzas in Anderl's name. His courtroom also has been flooded by threatening calls, including one profanity-laced one that called for his assassination.

McConnell, Jr. played a recording of the call during an unusual discussion Thursday where multiple federal judges discussed threats they have received — a notable conversation because judges usually only speak publicly from the bench and through their rulings, and rarely if ever, about personal threats and attacks. Salas and others said the number of attacks has escalated in recent months.

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Thursday’s event was sponsored by Speak up for Justice, a nonpartisan group supporting an independent judiciary. District Judge John C. Coughenour of Washington recalled having a police SWAT team called to his home to respond to a false report of an attack after Coughenour in January halted Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for children of people in the country illegally.
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