Less than a week from a second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, the U.S. Department of Justice announces the indictment of an Alaska man on multiple charges related to violent threats against six Justices on the United States Supreme Court. Only one of the Big Three evening network newscasts found this to be newsworthy.
Watch the full report as aired in its entirety on the CBS Evening News on Thursday, September 19th, 2024:
JERICKA DUNCAN: An Alaska man has been indicted for allegedly threatening to torture and murder six Supreme Court Justices and their families. The suspect, 76-year-old Panos Anastasiou, pleaded not guilty. He's accused of sending more than 465 threatening messages. One of them dated July 3rd said, “We need mass assassinations.” Another said the justices should, quote, "Be very afraid to leave their home.” The indictment does not specify which justices were targeted.
Scant, for sure, but infinitely more time than was afforded on ABC and NBC.
ABC made no time for violent threats against the Supreme Court. Neither the reporting nor the DoJ press release disclose which Justices were threatened, but there were six. That kind of narrows it down significantly. From the press release:
Beginning on Jan. 4, 2024, Anastasiou’s messages allegedly escalated to messages intending to threaten harm toward the victims. The messages contained violent, racist and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination by torture, hanging and firearms.
Anastasiou is charged with nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce.
NBC didn’t find the time for this story either, which is particularly weird given that it was correspondent Vaughn Hillyard who broke news of the indictment on X:
The DOJ has indicted an Alaska man for threatening to “murder & torture…six U.S. Supreme Court Justices and some of their family members.” pic.twitter.com/PmSLxNMapj
— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) September 19, 2024
The Regime Media have spent the better part of the past week giving lectures on the dangers of rhetoric regarding Springfield, Ohio- although they were less than fulsome in disclosing that the bomb threats called in came from bad overseas actors.
Of course, there is no similar introspection for the kind of violent rhetoric that leads to Supreme Court Justices and their families being threatened. Mind you, this isn’t the first time media talking heads and elected officials alike have engaged in this sort of rhetoric. Here’s Chuck Schumer issuing threats against Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh:
In which Chuck Schumer threatens TWO sitting Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. pic.twitter.com/pA3mryeVK2
— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) March 4, 2020
Here’s Senator Sheldon Whiteclub calling the six Justices “a threat to the country”:
Just two months ago, Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse called 6 SCOTUS judges "a threat to the country."
— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) September 19, 2024
He lamented: "It's very hard to get rid of them because they have these lifetime appointments." pic.twitter.com/dhvdZDF5f3
Here’s a group of people (but primarily Joy Reid) calling Ginni Thomas an insurrectionist:
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The guy who wanted to murder 6 SCOTUS Justices called Ginni Thomas an insurrectionist. I wonder where he got that idea from.
— Bill D'Agostino (@Banned_Bill) September 19, 2024
By the way here's a video of journalists calling Ginni Thomas an insurrectionist. pic.twitter.com/6jPKIv1oaH
Keep this in mind the next time you hear someone on the Regime Media calling for things to “cool down” or “tone down the rhetoric”, only to later incite more violence upon the Supreme Court.
