Justice Amy Coney Barrett was the target of an attempted swatting Wednesday night. Fortunately, no one was harmed and police worked out that this a bogus call.
An apparent “swatting” incident targeted the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Wednesday night, police confirmed to NBC News.
Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, said Thursday that the call was received through the police department’s nonemergency line just after 9 p.m. ET.
“Officers immediately coordinated with Supreme Court Police personnel assigned to the residence and quickly determined that the report was fictitious,” Fairfax County police said in a statement. “No additional police resources were utilized.”...
According to a recording of the police dispatch obtained by NBC Washington, a dispatcher alerted responding officers that a caller, who identified themselves as a neighbor, reported “gunshots heard” at an address belonging to Barrett in Fairfax County.
So someone called police claiming to be a neighbor who had heard gunshots next door. The caller then presumably gave 911 Barrett's address. The goal here, as with all swatting calls, is to get armed police to respond to an alleged shooting in a way that could lead to someone actually getting shot.
You can hear part of the dispatch audio below. It seems that the dispatcher quickly realized this house was not a run-of-the-mill home but one that had 24-hour security. The dispatcher also attempted to call back the person who phoned in the complaint and no one answered.
Police responded to a call for the sound of gunshots at the home of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett last night, but quickly realized it was a swatting call and cleared after meeting with her security detail. This is partial police audio, redacted pursuant to media… pic.twitter.com/fKKSTAVR6F
— Andrew Leyden (@PenguinSix) May 28, 2026
ScotusBlog points out that all of the Justices have had round-the-clock security since 2022 when a draft of the ruling overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked and published by Politico. Somewhat incredibly, no one has ever been identified as the leaker, meaning whoever did it (likely a left-wing clerk working for one of the left-leaning Justices) got away with it.
The justices have had around-the-clock security since at least 2022, when the leak of the court’s draft decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which would overturn the constitutional right to an abortion recognized in Roe v. Wade, led to protests outside several of the conservative justices’ homes, including Barrett’s. In June of that year, a California man was arrested and charged with attempting to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in Maryland.
There were multiple protests near the Justices' homes by a group called Ruth Sent Us. Those protests ended after Nicholas Roske showed up at Justice Kavanaugh's house with the intention of killing him and maybe a few other conservative justices.
Last October, Roske was sentenced to just 8 years in prison for the plot, far below the 30 years sought by prosecutors. Roske has also changed genders since his arrest and now goes by Sophie. That's why the NBC News story confusing claims a "woman" attempted to kill Justice Kavanaugh.
A woman was sentenced in October to eight years in prison after she pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. She was found near Kavanaugh’s home in 2022 armed with a handgun, a knife, pepper spray and burglary tools, according to authorities.
No one has been caught for this crime yet but it's probably safe to assume this is yet another deranged left-winger looking to save the world using violence against conservatives. Hopefully, the call can be traced and this person winds up in prison.
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