PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Soon after U.S. District Chief Judge John McConnell started hearing arguments in a lawsuit against the Trump administration, mysterious pizzas started arriving at his house.

He soon learned from the U.S. Marshals Office that the pizzas were meant to intimidate him as Trump and his allies publicly railed against federal judges who were blocking multiple attempts to push forward the president's political agenda.

"They wanted to let us know that they knew where we lived," McConnell said Thursday during an online panel on threats against the judiciary. "It's daunting. It was frightening."

One of those deliveries was in the name of Daniel Anderl, who is the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas. Anderl was shot and killed by a disgruntled litigant at Salas’s New J

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