An Alaska man was arrested for threatening to torture and assassinate six Supreme Court justices and their family members. 

The Justice Department announced Thursday that the man, identified as 76-year-old Panos Anastasiou, sent over 464 messages through the court’s public website. 

The messages from between March and July 2023 contained ‘violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric,’ according to the complaint. He also allegedly threatened to kill the justices through ‘torture, hanging and firearms.’ The man was arrested and charged with a total of 22 counts of making threats against a federal judge and through interstate commerce. He faces over 100 years in prison if convicted on all counts.

It is unclear whether the justices targeted are the six conservative justices, whose opinions Anastasiou ‘disagreed’ with. According to FEC records, he donated to ActBlue, a Democratic platform, as recently as July.

‘We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder and torture Supreme Court Justices and their families to retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with,’ said Attorney General Merrick Garland. 

According to his Facebook page, he has no friends and hasn’t posted in years. 

His account simply contains a profile photo and a 2014 posting calling Supreme Court justices ‘jack booted thugs.’

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