A Florida man has pleaded guilty in connection with threatening to kill a Supreme Court justice.

The guilty plea from 43-year-old Neal Brij Sidhwaney of Fernandina Beach stemmed from a call he made to a Supreme Court justice in July, the Justice Department said in a news release Monday.

He faces up to five years in federal prison on one count of transmitting an interstate threat. A sentencing date has not yet been set.

Prosecutors said that Sidhwaney identified himself by name in an expletive-infused voicemail and repeatedly threatened to kill the Supreme Court justice, who is not named in court documents.

Sidhwaney warned that if the justice alerted deputy U.S. Marshals, he would talk to them and “come kill you anyway,” according to court documents, which did not indicate what prompted Sidhwaney to make the threat.

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    9 months ago

    How I feel about this very much depends on which justice he threatened to kill.

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      I’m mildly surprised there hasn’t been more reactionary stochastic terrorism from the left. I guess we still have optimism while the right has had it beaten out of them every day by the news and, well, I have to assume they make their own daily lives pretty miserable anyway.

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        It isn’t happening as much from the left because we understand that the full power of the state will be used to crush the left violently and without remorse in a way that doesn’t happen to those on the right.

        Imagine if the actions on January 6 were done by leftists. What do you think we would have seen play out instead?

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          Imagine if the actions on January 6 were done by leftists. What do you think we would have seen play out instead

          Depends if they were all white

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          There are crazy people on both sides. This isn’t about Jan 6, this is about crazies with weapons and no hope for the future.

          But look, it’s not happening so clearly there’s something missing from the train of thought. Happily.

          Edit: Stochastic violence isn’t an organized mob of people attacking the Whitehouse. It’s crazy folks shooting up gay night clubs or attacking brown people in grocery stores. Mental illness isn’t exclusive to the right wing and I’m not a both sides are the same guy.

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              That’s exactly my point. I know somehow I’ve managed to phrase it like an asshole or something but that exactly my point. We know we are under attack. Some of us are pretty fucking angry about it. But we aren’t resorting to violence even though the system is failing us.

              I’m being really loose with the “we” here but it’s a much shorter word.

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        The problem is that the left are the good people, lmao. That’s why it takes so long until they start pushing back. Everything has to really go to shit until the left are picking up the pitchforks. It’s a bit tragic ngl

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        When the SC publishes ethical rules legalizing bribery, they’re inviting anyone with a sense of justice to take matters into their own hands.

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          Shit take. Anyone calling in death threats is ethically bankrupt at the very least. What justice is there in murder?

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            For legal purposes, this is only a joke.

            It’s really the only way for a normal person to effect the SC. They are given lifetime appointments, it doesn’t say how long those lifetimes have to be.

            Checks and balances, yo.