“They have required me, my children, to think about and see things that children should not have to see or think about”
By Catholics for Catholics
Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Supreme Court judge and a committed Catholic, delivered an alarming account to lawmakers on Tuesday on the menaces she has faced after the infamous Dobbs leak.
Testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee on the Supreme Court’s 2027 budget, Barrett said that her own children have been entangled in a series of threats and harassment aimed at the nation’s highest court, according to a story by the Daily Wire. From a bulletproof vest she had to talk about to her young son to a startling swatting hoax that sent police cruisers swarming her street.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett personally appealed to Congress for more Supreme Court security funding, publicly detailing for the first time a recent attempted swatting attack on her home.
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About six weeks before her testimony, Barrett says, her family was targeted in a swatting attack — a false report of gunfire and yelling inside her home that sent a squad of police cars rushing to her door. As he opened the door to head out with friends, one of her teenage sons found the street lined with police cars, she said.
In addition, Barrett said other justices have also received anonymous, daunting deliveries sent under a specific name: Daniel Anderl, the slain son of federal judge Esther Salas.
Anderl, 20, was gunned down at the family’s North Brunswick, New Jersey, home in July 2020 by a gunman disguised as a FedEx courier. The shooter, lawyer Roy Den Hollander, had appeared before Salas in court and was believed to have been targeting the judge herself. Anderl answered the door and was killed instantly; his father, attorney Mark Anderl, was critically wounded. Den Hollander took his own life soon after, and investigators later discovered he’d been scoping out other female judges as potential targets.
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