Dems roundly condemn death threats against Supreme Court they've repeatedly disparaged

Democrats roundly condemned political violence after news that a suspect had been arrested for threatening to hurt and kill six of the Supreme Court's nine Justices and some of their family members.

"Threats and acts of violence are unacceptable. Period," Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told the Washington Post. "As President Biden and Vice President Harris have always said, violence has absolutely no place in our country. Violent rhetoric and threats are unacceptable," White House Deputy Press Secretary Andrew Bates said. "There’s absolutely no place for political violence in this country – full stop," said Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.

It remains unknown exactly which justices 76-year-old Alaska resident Panos Anastasiou intended to attack.

However, a complaint filed against him Wednesday indicated that his threats included anti-Black slurs, and there is only one Black Supreme Court Justice – Clarence Thomas, who typically votes with the Court's conservative majority. Additionally, the complaint laid out that Anastasiou's threats included extreme remarks about a former president described by Anastasiou as a "convicted criminal." Former President Donald Trump became the first former president to be convicted of a felony, earlier this year.

ALASKA MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATS AGAINST SIX SUPREME COURT JUSTICES

Democrats have repeatedly slammed the Supreme Court as illegitimate. In a foretelling speech from Duke Law School on Monday, Kannon Shanmugam, who is widely considered one of the nation’s top appellate litigators and has argued 35 cases in front of the Supreme Court, said that "attacks on the legitimacy of the courts are contributing to the threat of violence against judges in general."

"Enough is enough. When will the media