Federal Judiciary Requests Funding Increase Amid Threats

The federal judiciary needs more funding, especially amid increasing threats to the institution, a federal judge told Congress on May 14. Judge Amy St. Eve, who is on the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court, testified before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government that current appropriations have caused “the deferral of dozens of judicial security projects at a time when threats against judges are increasing.” These threats include “pizza doxxings,” where the addresses of federal judges are publicized and unsolicited pizza orders are delivered to their homes with a message meant to intimidate them. An example included a delivery to a New Jersey judge addressed to Daniel Anderl, who was killed in 2020 by a disgruntled defendant who was trying to target his mother, U.S. District Judge Esther Salas....