Police responded to a hoax emergency call at Justice Amy Coney Barrett's Virginia residence on Wednesday night. the swatting attempt , which occurred around 9:00 p.m., left the justice and her family unharmed.

The 9:00 p.m. hoax in Fairfax County

Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home in Fairfax County, Virginia, was the target of a swatting call on Wednesday evening. According to the report, the call arrived at the non-emergency line shortly after 9:00 p.m., prompting a coordinated response between local police and security personnel assigned to the residence . Security on the scene reported that they had not heard anything unusual, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett's family remained unharmed throughout the event.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett returned to the bench on Thursday and did not mention the incident,according to the source. this silence suggests a strategic effort by the justice and the court to avoid granting the perpetrators the public attention they seek through such disruptive tactics.

From the 2022 Dobbs leak to Justice Kavanaugh's security

This incident is part of a wider, troubling trend of harassment targeting the American judiciary.. As the report noted, tensions escalated significantly following the 2022 leak of the Dobbs draft opinion, which signaled the Supreme Court's intent to overturn Roe v. Wade. This period saw an increase in protests at the private residences of conservative justices.

The volatility of this environment was underscored by a specific instance where a California man was arrested and charged with attempted murder near the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The current attack on Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home echoes these previous attempts to bring political conflict into the private livinng spaces of the nation's highest judges.

Representative Andy Ogles and the label of domestic terrorism

Swatting repreents a sophisticated and dangerous form of harassment where anonymous callers use tools like VPNs or Google Voice to trick emergency services into deploying tactical teams to a location. In March 2025, Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee characterized similar attacks on journalists and conservative commentators as acts of domestic terrorism and attempted murder, according to the source.

These tactics are designed to intimidate public figures by weaponizing law enforcement against them. Because these hoaxes can lead to deadly encounters between police and innocent residents, advocacy groups have condemned the practice as a form of political intimidation intended to undermine the independence of the judiciary.

The FBI's role and the silence of the Supreme Court Marshal

The investigation into the call at Justice Amy Coney Barrett's home is currently being handled by the Fairfax County Police Department. While the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been notified because swatting can be a federal crime, the Fairfax County Police Department has not yet identified a suspect.

A notable gap in the available information is the lack of a statement from the Supreme Court Marshal's office, which has not commented on the incident. It remains unclear whether the Marshal's office is coordinating a new security protocol for the justices or if they view the Fairfax County Police Department's response as sufficient to handle these types of digital threats.