Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett‘s sister Amanda Coney Williams received a bomb threat Monday, which came with the message, “Free Palestine.”
Barrett is the most recent Republican-appointed justice on the Supreme Court, nominated by President Donald Trump during his first term. Since her nomination, the court has ruled against federal abortion protections, affirmative action, and the Chevron doctrine, all of which Barrett was in the majority.
Williams is a lawyer in South Carolina. Police responded to an email reading, “I’ve constructed a pipe bomb which I recently placed in Amy Coney Barrett’s sister’s mailbox at her home. The device’s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened. Free Palestine!” Officers did not find a bomb in Williams’s mailbox.
No one has been arrested in connection with the threat.
This isn’t the first incident in connection with Barrett. Last year, Jan. 6 defendant Bradley Nelson was arrested on new charges centered on his threats against the justice and Attorney General Merrick Garland. At the time, Barrett was a dissenting justice in Fischer v. United States, a case that threw out the charge of obstruction of an official proceeding for a fellow Jan. 6 defendant. These charges were filed against some 300 defendants and Trump, but the 6-3 decision found that such a charge can only apply to evidence tampering, such as destroying physical documents.
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Barrett has had protesters positioned outside her home after controversial rulings. Her teenage daughter has traveled in an armored vehicle ever since Barrett’s nomination.
In recent years, the Supreme Court has opted to provide more security protections, even for those in the nomination process.
