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December 11, 2025
LANSING – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has sent a bipartisan letter (PDF) signed by 44 states to Congressional leaders requesting increased funding for the security of federal judges. The letter highlights how judges are increasingly facing threats and hostile incidents targeting them, their families, and courthouse staff.
“Our democracy cannot function if judges do not feel free to do their jobs honestly, ethically, and in accordance with the law because they are afraid of threats or acts of violence against them or their families,” Nessel said. “At a time when we are seeing more and more of these threats, judges should know that their safety is taken seriously, and I urge Congress to do everything they can to make sure they are protected.”
Funding for the Judiciary’s Court Security program has been subject to a “hard freeze” for two consecutive years, leaving inadequate resources to meet essential security needs at federal courthouses. The funding shortfall implicates court security officer salaries, visual and physical monitoring systems, and other aspects of courthouse security infrastructure.
Additional resources are also necessary to fund the Judiciary’s Vulnerability Management Program (VMP), which implements the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act. The Anderl Act, passed in 2022 with bipartisan support, honors Daniel Anderl, the son of New Jersey District Court Judge Esther Salas, who was murdered in his home in 2020 during an attempted assassination of Judge Salas. The Anderl Act prohibits data brokers from selling judges’ personally identifiable information and enables federal judges and their family members to request that businesses and government agencies remove such information from their websites.
As the letter explains, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. discussed the increased threat level facing the judiciary in his 2024 year-end report. The letter notes that these trends have continued into 2025, with more than 100 judges nationwide reporting that they have been “doxxed” with unsolicited deliveries to their homes. The deliveries were intended to intimidate judges and their relatives—and disturbingly, some were placed in the name of Daniel Anderl. In 2024, Attorney General Nessel’s Hate Crimes and Domestic Terrorism Unit prosecuted 40 cases involving threats made against elected officials, 12 of which were alleged threats against judges.
In signing this letter, Attorney General Nessel is joined by the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawai’i, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Wisconsin.
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