Chief Judge McConnell Discloses Six Death Threats; Loomer Doxxed His Daughter After Funding-Freeze Ruling

Chief U.S. District Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island publicly disclosed at least six credible death threats received since his 2025 ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration’s federal funding freeze. Documented incidents include a pizza-doxing referencing the 2020 murder of Judge Esther Salas’s son Daniel Anderl, Laura Loomer posting McConnell’s daughter’s personal information online, two congressional impeachment proceedings against him, and cancellation of his homeowner’s insurance. The U.S. Marshals Service reported 564 threats against federal judges in FY2025, up from 509 the prior year — all three sitting judges on McConnell’s small Rhode Island district court have received threats tied to rulings against the executive branch.

McConnell’s underlying ruling blocked the funding freeze imposed under OMB Memo M-25-13 (2025-01-27–omb-memo-m-25-13-federal-funding-freeze), part of the same coalition action documented in 2025-01-30–22-state-ag-coalition-blocks-federal-funding-freeze. The intimidation campaign against him extends a pattern this corpus tracks across multiple judges who ruled against the administration — including Boasberg’s contempt-inquiry fallout (2025-12-08–boasberg-orders-doj-testimony-alien-enemies-act) and Nevada Judge Boulware’s confrontation with ICE over a court order (2026-07-10–nevada-judge-boulware-ice-rebelling-court-order-detainee-release). Loomer’s role as a named, recurring doxxing actor against judicial targets is itself a documented capture-lane pattern.