North Carolina Man Pleads Guilty to Doxxing Supreme Court Justice with Violent Intent

Kyle Andrew Edwards, 59, of Alexander, North Carolina, appeared in federal court and pleaded guilty to a "doxxing" charge for posting online the home address of a United States Supreme Court Justice with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite a crime of violence against the Justice, announced Russ Ferguson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina.

According to court documents filed as part of Edwards' plea and the plea hearing, Edwards frequently used a publicly accessible online social media account from April through June 2025 to post comments critical of certain United States Supreme Court Justices. Many of these posts were threatening in nature or responses to threatening comments made by other users.

For example, on June 27, 2025, Edwards posted that the Supreme Court "must be destroyed." Two days later, on June 29, 2025, Edwards posted that a certain Supreme Court Justice should "buy Kevlar robes."

On April 8, 2025

On the day Edwards publicly disclosed the Justice's home address, he made several additional threatening posts toward other Justices. Edwards posted that a different Justice's home address was unavailable online "to prevent people from assassinating him." He also stated that Justices should "think again" if they believed "their families are safe." Edwards further encouraged others to "start dragging the SC out by their robes" and to "turn the Justices into charcoal."

"Turn all these motherfuckers into charcoal."

Court documents indicate that Edwards posted these comments publicly on his own social media account and within conversations where other posters were also making similar threats.

The legal question of whether laws can generally bar publishing the home addresses of government officials remains unsettled. Relevant cases include Kratovil v. City of New Brunswick (N.J. 2025), Publius v. Boyer-Vine (C.D. Cal. 2017), Brayshaw v. City of Tallahassee (N.D. Fla. 2010), and Sheehan v. Gregoire (W.D. Wash. 2003).

However, the relevant federal statute specifically prohibits publishing such home addresses with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or incite violence against the covered person or their immediate family, or with the intent and knowledge that the information will be used to facilitate such crimes. This statute is likely consistent with First Amendment exceptions for threats, incitement, or solicitation.