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North Carolina man pleads guilty to doxxing Supreme Court justice

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by Max Rego - 05/06/26 3:50 PM ET

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A North Carolina man pleaded guilty on Wednesday to doxxing the home address of a Supreme Court justice, according to the Justice Department.

Kyle Andrew Edwards, 59, appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to posting the justice’s home address online with the intent to threaten, intimidate or incite a crime of violence against them, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina Russ Ferguson announced in a release.

Ferguson’s office defined doxxing as the act of gathering, by lawful and unlawful means, and posting on the internet personal identifying information, such as a home address, and other sensitive information about an individual without their knowledge and consent.

“Doxxing is dangerous. It exposes officials to all sorts of people that may cause harm, and that harm may be even worse than the doxxer expected or intended,” Ferguson said in the release. “That is why we take it seriously.

“Threatening or harming federal officials is not the way to change policy. If you want to change policy, get involved and go vote.”

On April 8, 2025, Edwards posted the home address of a Supreme Court justice on social media. That same day, he posted partial or historical information about the neighborhoods or former home addresses of two other justices and threatened multiple justices, Ferguson’s office noted.

On that day, Edwards posted that a different justice’s home address was unavailable online “to prevent people from assassinating him,” and posted that justices should “think again” if they thought that “their families are safe,” according to the release.

He also encouraged other social media users to “start dragging the SC out by their robes” and turn the justices “into charcoal.”

Edwards posted the threats a day after the high court vacated a federal judge’s order blocking the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans.

Conservatives on the court were in the majority in that ruling, with Justice Amy Coney Barrett partially joining the three liberals in dissent.

Nearly three months later, on June 27, Edwards posted that the Supreme Court “must be destroyed.” Two days later, he posted that a certain justice should “buy Kevlar robes.”

June 27 marked the final day that the Supreme Court released opinions before its summer recess. Among other rulings, the court limited the ability of judges to issue universal injunctions against the Trump administration and backed a group of religious parents seeking to opt their children out of reading books with LGBTQ themes in school.

In both June rulings, the court was split along its 6-3 ideological lines.

Ferguson’s office noted that Edwards was released on bond after he pleaded guilty. The statutory maximum penalty for the doxxing charge is five years in prison — the U.S. attorney’s office stated that his sentence will be determined by the court based on federal sentencing guidelines and “other statutory factors.”

A date for Edwards’s sentencing has not been set.

The Supreme Court Police’s Protective Intelligence Unit investigated the case, according to Ferguson’s office. The Hill has reached out to the Supreme Court for comment.

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