WASHINGTON, D.C. — Law enforcement has criminally charged a left-wing New Jersey man who brought 200 explosives outside of St. Matthew’s Cathedral on Sunday, possibly with a plan to kill Supreme Court justices. The man also expressed anti-Catholic and anti-Jewish sentiments, along with a hatred for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Louis Geri has been charged on eight counts, including the “manufactur[ing] or possession of a weapon of mass destruction in furtherance of a hate crime,” according to the Washington Post. He had several other charges already pending from a prior incident outside the Archdiocese of Washington church. The Big Book of Herbal... Sams, Tina Best Price: $23.04 Buy New $11.08 (as of 11:06 UTC - Details)

Geri reportedly planned to target the annual Red Mass, a Catholic tradition meant to celebrate lawyers and judges. The Supreme Court’s new term began this week, and several Supreme Court justices were expected to attend the Mass. “The Red Mass is offered each year on the Sunday before the first Monday in October to mark the opening of the Supreme Court’s term and to invoke God’s blessings on those responsible for the administration of justice as well as on all public officials,” the Archdiocese of Washington explained.

Because of the heightened security, law enforcement was clearing the area ahead of time early on Sunday morning when they saw Geri setting up a tent on the cathedral steps.

“During his arrest, Louis Geri threatened to ignite explosives and handed authorities pages of his notebook that, according to court records, expressed animosity toward the Catholic Church, Supreme Court justices, members of the Jewish faith and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” the Washington Post reported.

Geri and police engaged in a back and forth. At one point, an officer agreed to read what Geri had written.

The notebook “allegedly revealed Geri’s significant animosity towards the Catholic church, members of the Jewish faith, members of SCOTUS and ICE/ ICE facilities,” according to WUSA 9.

He was eventually detained while he stepped away from his tent to urinate, according to the Washington Post. Police seized hundreds of explosives.

As reported by the Washington Post:

Authorities determined some of the vials contained nitromethane – an explosive compound often used in improvised explosive devices, including the ones deployed in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, which killed 168 people. Geri described them to authorities as grenades that use rubber bands to secure the fuse, court records show. Others were modified bottle rockets with aluminum foil heads and treated in a pyrotechnic solution, records show. Authorities said in court documents that the devices appeared “fully functional.”

The planned attack comes amidst growing concerns about left-wing political violence, including the assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

Furthermore, the planned attack came just days after a judge sentenced Nicholas Roske to just eight years in prison for planning to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Roske has begun claiming he is a woman, and his family has argued that he should receive a lighter sentence because of that. Other recent attacks have been linked to transgender ideology as well, including the Kirk assassination.

“I take into consideration the conditions of pre-trial confinement and the fact that she [he] is a transgender woman [gender-confused man] and will be sent to a male-only [Bureau of Prisons] facility,” U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman stated during sentencing. Sourdough on the Rise:... Lair, Cynthia Best Price: $1.59 Buy New $13.30 (as of 06:42 UTC - Details)

“The judge … said that a lower sentence was warranted because of an executive order issued by President Trump mandating that [gender-confused men] be held at male-only federal facilities, which [he] said could interfere with [his] continuing to receive gender transition [interventions],” the New York Times reported on October 3. As pointed out by Jonathan Van Maren, however, “Roske did not begin identifying as transgender until after his arrest, and if he adopted the identity to shorten his prison sentence, the ploy was successful.”

Roske targeted Kavanaugh at his home in 2022, along with hundreds of other left-wing activists who protested outside the private homes of Supreme Court justices, berating and intimidating them in an effort to get them to change their mind and not reverse Roe v. Wade. At the time, a leaked opinion suggested, correctly, that Roe would be reversed. The protests occurred with the backing of the Biden administration.

Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway suggested there is a clear connection between the sentence and the “Red Mass” situation.

“After left-wing radical judge on Friday greenlit attacks on conservative justices with shockingly short sentence for Kavanaugh assassination attempt, another man appears to target the ‘Red Mass’ attended by judges and justices,” Hemingway wrote on X.

This article was originally published on Lifesite News.