Posted on 05/11/2025 2:24:42 PM PDT by dennisw
Judges in several states say they have faced threats and intimidation tactics associated with pizza deliveries.
Federal judges say unsolicited pizza deliveries to jurists’ homes that began in February may number in the hundreds across at least seven states, prompting increased security concerns and a demand from a Senate leader for a Justice Department investigation.
Many of the deliveries have gone to judges presiding over lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s policies. The U.S. Marshals Service has been tracking the deliveries, and judges have been sharing details about their experiences in hopes of finding out more about what they call an ongoing attempt at intimidating the judiciary.
Some of the pizza deliveries have gone to judges’ relatives. In recent weeks, orders have been placed in the name of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas’s son, Daniel Anderl, who was fatally shot at the family home in New Jersey in 2020 by an attorney who posed as a delivery person.
In an interview with The Washington Post, U.S. Circuit Judge J. Michelle Childs, who serves in Washington, said she has received seven anonymous pizza deliveries at her home in the past few months — one shortly after she took part in a ruling against the Trump administration
“It’s really an unnecessary and an unfortunate threat to our security when we’re trying to be judicial officers in a very neutral position with respect to our cases,” she said. “You need a strong judiciary for the system to work.
Childs and Salas said that they and other judges have discussed the deliveries with the marshals, relaying information to them each time a pizza arrives at the door. Childs serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and Salas serves on the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
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Hey judges, I’m sure if people get pissed off at your imposing your regal rule on this Republic and you feel threatened your Democrat friends you are helping destroy it will volunteer to stand watch over your abode and keep you safe.
It all a distraction so the can call it PizzaGate so that future googlers will confuse the real story. Same thing as disney on Ice! /s
I could believe the corrupt Dems/Deep Staters would send pizza to judges to try to intimidate the judges into disregarding the legal system and supporting anti-Trump cases. This isn’t a MAGA tactic.
Threaten me please. Pepperoni, sausage, and red onions.
This afternoon would be nice.
Awwwwwwwwww. Poor babies.
And the unordered pizzas sent to conservative influencers are meant for.......?
The FBI seems to have gotten nowhere in their investigation into the swatting of many prominent conservatives. Maybe now that judges are getting the pizzas and feeling “intimidated”, the FBI will begin to look into the incidents.
Good thing it’s not bags of flaming , BLEEP
It’s code: their pedophile ring is back in action
FA FO
Federal judges’ addresses are almost always heavily restricted. Even looking them up on actual real estate records at the assessor’s office or recorder is difficult.
Leftist only spend other people’s money
Should be easy enough to trace a pizza order. They can’t take cash over the phone, and who goes to pay cash at a pizza parlor without taking the pizza with them?
Mostly Pieceful Pizza
Remember when the liberals protested at the houses of Supreme Court justices, which apparently is against federal law! Remember all those Leos that couldn’t arrest anybody, that’s right they were Democrats you can’t arrest them!
I’m for the old fashioned “bag of crap” on the front porch, set on fire for stomping out, myself.......
Leftist thugs letting judges know whose in charge
Interesting that it’s only news when the left is having this happen to them.
I’m pretty sure that leftists are sending the pizzas for the purpose of creating a bogus “right-wing threat” story.
It is more of a "we know where you live" aspect to the right wing threats.
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