The lawyer who killed the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas last July had a dossier on Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Salas said in an interview.
“They found another gun — a Glock — more ammunition, but the most troubling thing they found was a manila folder with a workup on Justice Sonia Sotomayor,” she said on a segment of CBS News’s 60 Minutes, describing a recent cache, which belonged to shooter Roy Den Hollander, that was discovered by the FBI.
Hollander, disguised as a FedEx driver, shot Salas’s son, Daniel Anderl, and husband, Mark Anderl, during a home invasion on July 19 in a failed plot to assassinate the district judge. Daniel Anderl was killed during the incident after he protected his father, the judge said, and was left critically injured following the attack in a New Jersey suburb.
Salas described the FBI’s recent findings pertaining to Sotomayor as “chilling.”
“Who knows what could have happened? But we need to understand that judges are at risk. We need to understand that we put ourselves in great danger everyday for doing our jobs,” she said.
U.S. District Judge Esther Salas says the FBI found evidence that the man who killed her son also targeted Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday. https://t.co/RZn8X3QjEK pic.twitter.com/kBuQPvzR1i
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) February 19, 2021
FEDERAL JUDGE WHOSE SON WAS SLAIN SAYS SHE HAS RECEIVED ANOTHER THREAT SINCE SHOOTING
Hollander, who killed himself before law enforcement could apprehend him, was overseeing a case with Salas in which he argued that a men-only draft was discriminatory. The 72-year-old sought to “help battle the infringement of Men’s Rights by the Feminists” and referred to Salas as “a lazy and incompetent Latina judge appointed by Obama” in an online manifesto.
Salas said the motive for the shooting had to do with her gender and race.
“My husband and I sat for an FBI debriefing. I know that he hated me because I was a woman. He hated me because I was Latina. And that was the source of hate. That was, you know, what I had done — was I had the nerve to become a judge,” Salas said in October.
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Lawmakers introduced the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2020 in September, which “would protect judges and their families by requiring federal agencies to maintain the confidentiality of judges’ personally identifiable information upon request” and “authorize funding for state and local governments to adopt similar measures,” according to the National Association of Attorneys General. A total of 51 attorneys general throughout the country urged Congress to take action and forward the bill.
