Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening to Kill Supreme Court Justice

A Florida man pleaded guilty to threatening to kill a US Supreme Court justice, US prosecutors said amid rising threats to federal judges nationwide.

Neal Brij Sidhwaney, 43, of the Jacksonville area, pleaded guilty in a Florida federal court to one count of transmitting an interstate threat to injure, court documents showed.

The plea was entered Dec. 15 and stemmed from a profanity-laced voicemail left with the Supreme Court last July that included a repeated threat to kill a specific justice, the Justice Department said in a release on Monday. The justice was not identified.

Sidhwaney’s attorney declined to comment ...