A federal grand jury in Alaska indicted a 76-year-old man on Sept. 18 for making hundreds of threats to injure and assassinate six justices of the U.S. Supreme Court and their families.
Panos Anastasiou was arrested on Sept. 18; the allegations are 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.”
They allegedly included threats to kill the justices in ways such as lynching and beheading. One threat said that he would assist in “‘providing the rope’ to ‘hang [the justice] ... from an Oak tree,’” the indictment said.
He also encouraged others to take action against the justices in the threats, according to the indictment. He allegedly said that he would kill two justices and their family members by sending “fellow veterans” of the Vietnam War to “spray” their homes with bullets.
Another alleged threat was against a former president of the United States, though court records refer to him only as “Former President 1.”
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