CV NEWS FEED // A Florida man pled guilty in a federal court Friday to making assassination threats against Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in a July voicemail.
Roberts was part of the Court’s 6-3 majority that voted to end Roe v. Wade in June of last year.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) identified the would-be assassin as 43-year-old Neal Sidhwaney of Fernandina Beach, FL.
As POLITICO reported:
In the voicemail, Sidhwaney introduced himself and he had a message that he wanted the U.S. Marshals to deliver to Roberts that included “I will f*****g kill you,” according to a court document filed in connection with the plea hearing last week.
“Sidhwaney was arrested in August and has been in custody since,” POLITICO continued:
The psychologist who evaluated him found the defendant competent to stand trial and of “superior” intelligence, but suffering from “delusional disorder with psychosis.” He’s under treatment with an anti-psychotic drug, the doctor said.
Sidhwaney could receive up to five years in prison on the charge, but defendants typically receive less time under federal guidelines.
“It’s not immediately clear why [Sidwhaney] allegedly wanted to kill the justice,” stated The Daily Signal’s Mary Margaret Olohan.
“The threats followed the most recent slew of Supreme Court rulings issued in late June, one of which was 303 Creative v. Elenis, in which the Supreme Court ruled that Colorado cannot force graphic designer Lorie Smith to create art that violates her religious beliefs,” Olohan noted.
In addition to siding with the court’s majority in Dobbs, Roberts also received pushback from the left for agreeing that Colorado violated the Christian designer’s religious freedom.
Like Dobbs, 303 Creative was also a 6-3 decision. The same six justices comprised the majority in both rulings.
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In September, CatholicVote reported that the U.S. Marshals Service “said it was ‘unaware’ of ‘targeted’ threats to Supreme Court justices” in an “email sent weeks after an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh.”
The Marshals are an agency of the Department of Justice. Kavanaugh is another one of the six aforementioned justices.
From CatholicVote’s September reporting:
[Nicholas] Roske, a then-26-year-old California man, took a cross-country plane ride and arrived in front of Kavanaugh’s Maryland home at around 1:00 a.m. on June 8, 2022, armed with a Glock pistol. He was spotted by U.S. Marshals, eventually surrendered to law enforcement, and was arrested near the Kavanaugh residence.
His online communications and own words to police clearly indicate that the then-pending [Dobbs] decision was the main motive in Roske’s failed attempt on Kavanaugh’s life.
“In addition to his support of abortion, Roske was also concerned about Kavanaugh and other conservative justices’ past decisions on gun control,” CatholicVote added.
