Most Americans were horrified and heartbroken on behalf of Charlie Kirk’s family after the 31-year-old conservative activist was murdered last week.
They included Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who spoke out regarding Kirk’s assassination on Friday.
Supreme Court justice condemns political violence as “grotesque”
According to The Hill, Barrett made the comments while speaking at the University of Notre Dame to promote her new book, “Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution.”
“Too often when I look around the country, political violence is the most grotesque symptom of it, but there are others, too, just in online conversations and the way that people treat those with whom they disagree,” Barrett said with respect to the rejection of civility.
“And that’s actually one of the points that I try to make in the book is that’s just not a way to run a society,” she explained.
When it came to her own wellbeing, the Supreme Court asserted, “I’m in very good hands, so I feel safe, but we do have round-the-clock security.”
Barrett’s sister was subjected to a bomb threat
Barrett’s family has felt the sting of political threats before. Her sister faced a bomb scare earlier this year.
As Fox Carolina News reported in March, Charleston, South Carolina, officers were called to the home of Amanda Coney Williams.
Williams’ husband told police he had received an email that contained detailed information about an explosive device and referenced events in the Middle East.
“Using a 1×8-inch threaded galvanized pipe, end caps, a kitchen timer, some wires, metal clips and homemade black powder, I’ve constructed a pipe bomb which I recently placed in Amy Coney Barrett’s sister’s mailbox at her home in Charleston, SC. The device’s detonation will be triggered as soon as the mailbox is next opened. Free Palestine!” it read.
Fox Carolina noted that emergency crews searched the couple’s mailbox but found no explosive device.
Man who tried to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh pleads guilty
Justice Brett Kavanaugh also faced a life-threatening attack in 2022, not long after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
A Department of Justice (DOJ) press release in April detailed how Nicholas John Roske pleaded guilty to the attempted killing of Kavanaugh.
Roske was arrested outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home. Police found a firearm and other weapons in his possession.
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