Washington, D.C., police on Sunday arrested a man with hundreds of explosive devices outside a church holding a Mass in honor of the Supreme Court. The man had a manifesto that suggested he was targeting the Supreme Court and Catholics, according to court papers obtained by The Daily Wire.

Louis Geri, a 41-year-old from Arizona and New Jersey, was apprehended outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on October 5, the same day the church held its annual “Red Mass” in which a cardinal prays for the high court as it embarks on a new term, and which is historically attended by justices.

Geri was occupying a green tent on the steps of the church when police attempted to clear the area in preparation for the Supreme Court event. He told police, “You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives,” according to an affidavit.

A member of the Metropolitan Police Department’s Bomb Squad then told him he needed to move because of a special event. He replied, “I’m aware of that (referring to the Red Mass),” police wrote, and threatened to throw a bomb into the street as a demonstration, adding, “I have a hundred plus of them.”

Police said they would remove him against his will, and he replied, “Several of your people are gonna die from one of these.” With a lighter in one hand, he handed them nine pieces of paper that amounted to a manifesto entitled, “Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives.”

The manifesto “revealed his significant animosity towards the Catholic church, members of the Jewish faith, members of SCOTUS and ICE/ ICE facilities,” police wrote, indicating that the incident may be the latest in a string of left-wing domestic terrorism.

Geri “then shifted his right thumb over top of the butane lighter to initiate the lighting action and stated, ‘You better have these people step away or there’s going to be deaths.'”

Priests and worshipers leave after celebrating the 72nd Annual Red Mass in 2024. (Astrid Riecken For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Geri then left the tent to urinate on a tree and was apprehended by three officers, at which point he said he had a device in his pocket. A bomb squad technician located in his pocket “a vial with a white cap, which contained yellow liquid inside, with an M-device taped to the exterior.”

After he was arrested, the bomb squad located “a large cache of handmade destructive devices” in the tent, police said. He was charged with: Unlawful Entry, Manufacture, Transfer, Use, Possession or Transportation of Molotov Cocktails, or other Explosives for Unlawful purposes, Threats to Kidnap or Injure a person, Assault on Police Officer x 2, Possession of Destructive Device, Manufacture or Possession of Weapon of Mass Destruction (Hate Crime) and Resisting Arrest.

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On Monday, after reviewing the bombs more carefully, police filed an affidavit from a bomb technician saying “there were over 200 devices recovered from D-1’s tent. There was a strong smell of acetone emitting from some of the vials. Some of the liquid was determined to be Nitro Methane. The liquid appeared to be multiple chemicals mixed together, none in original containers … the devices appeared to be fully functional.”

Police said that in a jailhouse interview, Geri told them that “he planned to use the modified bottle rockets with the aluminum foil heads attached and treated in a Thermite solution to allow for his detonation of the devices from a distance.”

He is being held in jail without bond.

No justices attended the mass this year because of security concerns, according to the National Catholic Reporter – concerns which appear to have been justified. Last year, three justices, all conservative, attended: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. In 2018, leftists were photographed protesting the mass with signs that said “Stop Kavanaugh,” and referring to the false smear peddled by Democrat senators that Kavanaugh was a gang-rapist.

Protesters yell “I believe Christine Ford” in front of the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle at the 66th annual Red Mass on September 30, 2018.
(Photo by Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

The potential assassination of a large number of justices came just two days after a Joe Biden-appointed judge issued a lenient sentence to Nicholas Roske, who attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. In that case, Judge Deborah Boardman departed from sentencing guidelines by 22 years, sentencing Roske to just eight years instead of the 30 years-to-life called for by sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had warned that a stiffer sentence was needed to deter others from attempting to assassinate justices, and this new incident could add to calls from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to impeach Judge Boardman.

According to public records reviewed by The Daily Wire, Geri was from Vineland, New Jersey, but had been living in a motel in Mesa, Arizona, for the last several years. In 2021, an Arizona jury found him guilty of indecent exposure. He was admitted to state prison in August 2022 and released in May 2023, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.



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Last month marked 25 years since the Food and Drug Administration approved the abortion drug mifepristone, then called RU-486, for use in the United States.

On September 19, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, sent a letter to 22 pro-life state attorneys general informing them that the agencies will perform a review of the drug’s safety.

Such a review is long overdue and should result in the revocation of the FDA’s approval of mifepristone or, at minimum, the restoration of important protections around the drug’s prescription.

The FDA’s approach to mifepristone was political from the start. In his first official act as President, Bill Clinton directed HHS to promote the introduction of the abortion drug into the American market. The first hurdle the FDA faced in carrying out this directive was the need for the French company Roussel Uclaf, which owned the patent to mifepristone, to file a new drug application (“NDA”) with the agency.

Before Roussel Uclaf would be willing to file the NDA, however, it wanted the federal government to indemnify it against damages it might incur as the drug’s sponsor. Because such indemnification was not politically feasible, “Roussel Uclaf was willing to give a royalty free license to any major U.S. pharmaceutical company — but no U.S. company would take the license.”

So, at the request of the Roussel Uclaf board, Clinton wrote a letter to the company urging it to grant a license to the Population Council, a nonprofit that had been in negotiations with the company with the support, if not at the direction, of the administration. License in hand, the Population Council filed an NDA in 1996, which the FDA quickly moved from standard to priority review.

In February 2000, the FDA sent a letter to the Population Council informing it that insufficient information had been presented to show the safety of the abortion drug. Nonetheless, that September, in the waning days of the Clinton administration, the FDA approved mifepristone.

The FDA approved mifepristone under a regulation known as Subpart H, which allows for the expedited approval of drugs that treat “serious or life-threatening illnesses and that provide a meaningful therapeutic benefit to patients over existing treatments. Mifepristone meets neither of these requirements.

First, mifepristone does not “treat” a “serious or life-threatening illness.” Pregnancy is not an illness, and killing an unborn child is not treatment.

Second, chemical abortion does not now, and certainly did not then, provide a “meaningful therapeutic benefit…over existing treatments.” As a 2006 congressional report on mifepristone’s approval explained, “it appears that no concurrently-controlled trials comparing medical and surgical abortion were required by FDA, because the Agency already knew that medical abortion — i.e., abortion by RU-486 — is unambiguously inferior to surgical abortion with respect to safety and effectiveness.”

Nor, as the same report lays out in detail, did the FDA rely on studies of sufficient rigor to meet Subpart H’s requirements.

Upon approval of mifepristone, the FDA implemented certain limitations on the drug’s prescription to provide at least some protection to women. Specifically, the abortion drug could only be prescribed to women who were less than seven weeks pregnant, women were required to visit the doctor three times, and abortionists were required to report all adverse events.

In March 2016, the Obama FDA significantly reduced these protections, now referred to as a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS). Women could be prescribed mifepristone for abortions up to 10 weeks of gestation, only needed to visit a doctor once, allowed non-doctors to prescribe chemical abortions, and required abortionists to report only fatal adverse events.

In 2021, the FDA “removed the ‘in-person dispensing requirement’” altogether.

In 2023, 63% of abortions were chemical rather than surgical, and tens of thousands of chemical abortions were shipped into pro-life states in 2024.

The FDA’s review of the dangers of mifepristone to women’s health is long overdue. A recent study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center, suggesting that the adverse event rate for chemical abortion is much higher than what the FDA data reports, is only the most recent in two and a half decades of evidence that the FDA’s approval of the drug is dangerous for women.

For the past 25 years, mifepristone has been used to terminate innocent human life while injuring and harming women for life. The abortion drug’s reckoning is long overdue. Pro-life Americans cannot rest until the dangerous chemical abortion pill is taken off the market and pre-born Americans are safe from its harms.

Marc Wheat is general counsel for Advancing American Freedom.