MAGA Is Bombarding Judges With Pizzas in 'Intimidation' Plot [View all]
Source: Daily Beast
Updated May 11 2025 1:08PM EDT
Published May 11 2025 9:52AM EDT
The nation’s justices are facing a bizarre new scourge of food delivery pranks they say are designed to intimidate them into not challenging President Donald Trump‘s policies in court. Federal judges told the Washington Post that pizza orders, possibly numbering in the hundreds, have been sent to the homes of jurists in at least seven states since Trump assumed office for the second time.
The stunts appear to eerily draw upon the 2016 Pizzagate conspiracy theory, an extremist MAGA claiming the existence of a Satanic pedophilia ring in the Democratic Party.
Michelle Childs, a Washington Circuit Judge, told WaPo that she’d received no less than seven anonymous deliveries to her home since the beginning of February, with one arriving not long after she contributed to a ruling against the White House over firings at a government watchdog.
“It’s unsettling because I’d like to go to work every day, even with the hardest case, just feeling like there’s no sense of intimidation,” Childs said, adding, “You need a strong judiciary for the system to work. This is infringing on democracy generally.” Some of the orders have turned up under the name of New Jersey District Judge Esther Salas’ son, Daniel Anderl—who was shot dead at their family home back in 2020 by a disgruntled attorney disguised as a delivery driver.
Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/federal-judges-say-theyre-receiving-pizzas-they-didnt-order-in-attempt-to-intimidate-them/
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