A federal grand jury in Alaska indicted a 76-year-old man on Sept. 18 for making hundreds of violent threats to injure and assassinate six justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and their families.
Panos Anastasiou was arrested on Sept. 18 over allegations that between March 10, 2023, and July 16, 2024, he “sent over 465 messages to the Supreme Court through a public website the court maintained,” which included violent threats.
Court documents allege that beginning in January, Anastasiou’s communications escalated to messages intended to threaten harm toward the justices and their families—containing what the Department of Justice described as “violent, racist and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination by torture, hanging and firearms.”…