Florida man sentenced for threatening to murder Supreme Court justice

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: April 2, 2024 / 2:28 PM EDT


A Florida man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for threatening to kill a U.S. Supreme Court justice, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Neal Brij Sidhwaney, 43, pleaded guilty in December after he made a July telephone call from Florida to the Supreme Court and left an expletive-filled voice message twice threatening to kill an unnamed justice, according to the indictment. According to Politico, Sidhwaney identified Chief Justice John Roberts as his intended target during a psychological evaluation that was placed in court records but later sealed.

Sidhwaney pleaded guilty to transmitting an interstate threat to to kill a U.S. Supreme Court Justice in December.

Threats against federal judges, including Supreme Court justices, have increased each year since 2019, as CBS News has previously reported. Federal investigators responded to over 400 threats to federal judges across the country in 2023, nearly 300 more than in 2019, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) and obtained by CBS News.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-man-sentenced-for-threatening-to-murder-supreme-court-justice/

[live love laugh]

1. Bet it was a Democrat.

[EX500rider]

3. Sidhwaney identified Chief Justice John Roberts as his intended target

[live love laugh]

4. Surprised. 😲

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Not surprised. magas passionately hate Roberts for enabling Obama's Affordable Care Act. . . . nt

[marble falls]

2. This sentence will give him time to learn about what the First Amendment means with free speech.

[COL Mustard]

11. If it's a felony

It’ll also keep him from voting for the Orange Jesus this fall. Sweet irony.

[usonian]

5. But you can't be arrested for what you're thinking.

Until Elon Musk's "Neuralink" brain probe rats you out.

HE IS NO EFFIN GOOD WITH CHIPS, so he invented a wire instead.

Not as smart as he claims.

[SergeStorms]

9. Oh, you can bet....

you'll see me clamoring to be the first in line for "neuralink."

[Wonder Why]

6. The guy should have claimed he was immune and it was part of his

duties as SCOTUS janitor to keep the place clean.

[Marthe48]

7. when will traitor be arrested and charged with threatening a judge?

Maybe whoever can use this case and its outcome as a blueprint.

[niyad]

10. Much as I despise the six extremes, threatening them or the three sane

ones, is unacceotable. As is what the six have done, and are continuing to do, to us.

[uppityperson]

12. For a moment I thought it was TFG