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Roy Den Hollander: "Anti-Feminist" Lawyer Suspected of Murdering Judge's Son
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Sun Jul 19, 2020
Category: Crime
Area: New York
BRUNSWICK, New Jersey - Roy Den Hollander was a well-known men's rights attorney and self-described "anti-feminist" who is suspected of being the gunman who shot the husband and son of federal Judge Esther Salas in the doorway of the family's home in North Brunswick, New Jersey, before killing himself. Salas' 20-year-old son, Daniel Anderl, was killed and her husband, criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Mark Anderl, was wounded.
The FBI's Newark office confirmed Den Hollander, who filled his website with rants against women, is the "primary subject" in the attack on Salas' home. The FBI tweeted, "Den Hollander is now deceased. Individuals who believe they have relevant information should contact us at 973-792-3000, Press Option 2." Den Hollander was involved in a case heard by Salas, but investigators have not yet determined his exact motive for the attack on her family.
However, Den Hollander also left behind a memoir he published online (and which you can read here), calling Salas "a lazy and incompetent Latina judge appointed by Obama" and saying that he "wanted to ask the Judge out, but thought she might hold me in contempt," according to NBC News.
In some of his online writings, he expressed hatred for his mother and "raged about women judges," NBC reported, calling judges appointed by Obama "Obamite bigots." The book criticizes Latina judges and Salas herself in multiple passages, saying, in one place, "Salas clearly wanted to further her career by moving up the judicial ladder to the Court of Appeals or maybe even the Supreme Court. After all, there was now a Latina seat in the form of Sotomayor on the Court - lady unluck stuck us with an Obama appointee." This is the dedication page to his self-published book:
Dedication
To Mother
May she burn in Hell
Daily Beast first reported Den Hollander's name via law enforcement sources. Multiple reports have claimed, via sources, that the suspect was wearing a FedEx uniform at the time of the shooting; however, The New York Times is now reporting that, while "authorities believe that somebody dressed in a FedEx uniform was in the neighborhood around the time of the shooting, it could not be determined if that person was the gunman."
Den Hollander, 69, was long involved in unusual and publicity seeking men's rights causes. In 2016, Den Hollander sued various national news reporters in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, including Chuck Todd of NBC's Meet the Press, New York Times commentator David Brooks, and Major Garrett of CBS. He accused them of violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act by allegedly committing "wire fraud," alleging they created and caused "to be broadcast and disseminated false and misleading news reports concerning the Donald J. Trump candidacy for President of the United States." You can see the full complaint here. In March 2020, he made a $20 donation to WINRED, a Republican Party fundraising platform, according to the Federal Election Commission's records. In his book, Den Hollander wrote, "Donald Trump was telling the truth about illegal aliens in his bid for the Presidency" and "From day one of the campaign the PC-Pravda Correct - news media hammered Trump. The reporters lied, prevaricated, dissembled, took quotes out of content, spun them around to say what the reporters wanted and then reported such as facts to depict Trump as 'inappropriate' - to put it mildly."
For years, Den Hollander made news with headline-grabbing ventures. According to TechDirt, he "sued a nightclub claiming that requiring him to buy a $350 bottle of vodka was a human rights violation" and sued nightclubs for holding Ladies' Nights, which he said violated the 14th Amendment. He sued Columbia University "for offering women's studies courses," the site recapped in a 2016 article on Hollander.
On his website, he referred to a "Lady Judge" when describing the Ladies' Nights decision, writing, "Lady Judge ruled that under the U.S. Constitution nightclubs can charge men more for admission than females, but in reaching her decision, she had to find that nightclubs cannot charge guys more for a drink. So if you can make it to the bar, you're home-free."
The website is full of grievance. "The terms Feminists, Fanatical Feminists, Rabid Feminists, or Feminazis, are used interchangeably. Some people use the terms Ideological Feminists, Radical Feminists, or Militant Feminists," Hollander wrote. "It doesn't matter what you call them; they intend to create and perpetuate a legal, social, and economic substratum occupied by men toiling in a Fritz Lang 'Metropolis' underworld."
Authorities believe the suspect in the Judge Salas family shootings died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. His body was found in a car in Sullivan County, New York, CNN reported.
Daniel Anderl, 20, a student at Catholic University and the judge's son, was shot and killed in the attack. The judge's husband, Mark Anderl, was in critical but stable condition after it; the judge was not injured because she was in the basement at the time of the shooting, NBC New York reported.
"Judge Salas and her family are in our thoughts at this time as they cope with this senseless act," Governor Phil Murphy wrote on Twitter.
The judge is the first Latina woman to serve on New Jersey's federal bench, NBC New York reported. Rutgers University called her "The first Hispanic to serve as a US Magistrate Judge for NJ".
When authorities were alerted that a municipal employee had found Den Hollander deceased inside his car near Liberty, New York, they discovered a FedEx package addressed to the judge in the vehicle, according to ABC News. Other ties soon emerged.
The suspect "was an attorney who had a case before Judge Salas in 2015," ABC News reported. The Daily Beast reported that the case was a "challenge to the military's male-only draft."
However, Salas didn't side against Den Hollander's cause, although the case is still pending. In March 2019, USA Today reported, Judge Salas "allowed a legal challenge to the male-only military draft, increasing the pressure on Congress to decide whether any future conscription should apply equally to men and women - and whether the requirement to register should exist at all."
The plaintiff was a New Jersey woman, Elizabeth Kyle-Lebell, who tried to register for Selective Service twice. According to USA Today, Salas "dismissed Kyle-Labell's argument the male-only draft requirement deprived her of due process, but allowed another one - that a male-only draft deprives women of 'equal protection of the law' - to proceed."
In his book, Den Hollander discussed the draft case and Salas by name. "Unfortunately, Judge Esther Salas granted DOJ a do-over of its prior motions to dismiss the case for lack of ripeness under Rule 12(b)(1) and failure to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6). Judge Salas had never made a decision on those motions. She had 'terminated' them allegedly because of the political shenanigans in Congress. Was she trying to keep this case in her court until a weatherman showed her which way the legal winds were blowing" he wrote.
On his Twitter page, Den Hollander described himself as a "men's rights attorney." He had a YouTube channel where he posted various interviews, but it only had a few subscribers.
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