Extremists Threaten to Murder Supreme Court Justices, DHS Says Brace for 'Violence'

Death threats are rising against Supreme Court justices, and the government is now preparing for a surge of violence over the court's upcoming decision on abortion. Federal agencies are already investigating multiple warnings of attacks.

America's top law enforcement agency, the Department of Homeland Security, is bracing for "violence and unrest" once the Supreme Court officially announces its decision on Roe v. Wade this summer. Many are expecting the Court's conservative majority to overturn the landmark Roe ruling, which legalized abortion nationwide back in 1973. 

The DHS says threats began with the leak of Justice Samuel Alito's draft opinion on overturning Roe earlier this month. Outraged pro-choice protesters have since been threatening on social media to storm the Supreme Court, burn it down, and kill the Justices and their clerks. 

"The good men and women in Homeland Security have been right before and I have to assume they're right in this case...but we can't let that in any way intimidate our federal judges or the rest of us," Sen. Todd Young (R-Indiana) told CBN News.

A DHS memo warns that a broad spectrum of domestic extremists are adopting the narratives surrounding abortion rights, and while violence and vandalism against pro-lifers have been a growing problem for years, now the threats are growing increasingly dangerous from those on the pro-choice side.