Booker, Menendez, Durbin Issue Statement on Inclusion of Daniel Anderl Judicial Security Bill in Senate National Defense Authorization Act

 Bipartisan Bill is named for slain son of Federal District Judge Esther Salas

NEWARK, N.J. – U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with U.S. Senators Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on the inclusion of the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2021 in the Senate substitute amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023:

“The inclusion of the bipartisan Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act of 2021 in the Senate substitute amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023 brings us one step closer to protecting federal judges and their families. No judge in America should have to fear for their lives and the safety of their family as they work to deliver equal justice under the law.

“This legislation is named after the son of federal Judge Esther Salas following his senseless murder nearly two years ago in a shooting that also injured her husband, Mark Anderl. We call on our colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this provision and we will work to ensure this language remains in the final conferenced NDAA bill. There is no time to waste to make this bill the law of the land.”