The Right Kills Again; Gunman Suspected in Killing Son, Injuring Husband of Hispanic Female Federal Judge Was ‘Men’s Rights Activist’ Attorney

Roy Den Hollander was so evil even Fox News’ Nick Cavuto thought he was effed up.

NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ – The now-deceased suspected gunman believed to be responsible for the shooting death of a federal judge’s son and wounding of her husband was an an attorney well-known within far right circles as a self-styled “anti-feminist” who on his website declares that men must “battle the infringement of Men’s Rights by the Feminists and their fellow sisters the PCers” and had a case pending in the judge’s court challenging men-only draft.

According to news outlets, Roy Den Hollander, 73, went to the home of Federal Judge Esther Salas and her family dressed in a FedEx uniform and fatally shot her son, Catholic University student Daniel Anderl, 20, as he answered the door. When her husband, criminal defense attorney Mark Anderl, 63, responded to the shots, he too was shot and is now in stable condition at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Brunswick, NJ.   Federal investigators identified Den Hollander as the primary suspect and also noted he was deceased. According to the Daily Beast,

at 8:15 a.m. Monday, two Sullivan County, NY Department of Public Works employees were doing storm clean-up in Rockland, NY when they saw a blue Toyota drive past, heading towards a dead end, and after they finished work, they saw the car parked on the shoulder of the road with Den Hollander on the passenger side with a gunshot wound to the head.

Salas is the first Hispanic woman to serve as a United States Magistrate Judge and as a United States District Judge in the District of New Jersey, having been appointed to the position in 2010 by President Barack Obama.  In 2015, Den Hollander brought a case before Salas filed on behalf of 17-year-old Elizabeth Kyle-Labell, arguing that the Selective Service System barring females from registering for the draft while being mandatory for males was illegal. In 2018, Salas allowed the case to proceed after a judge in Texas declared the male-only draft unconstitutional in a case brought by two men, but in May 2019 Den Hollander asked attorney Nicholas A. Gravante Jr. to take over the case due to his diagnosis of terminal cancer. Oral arguments on a motion were scheduled last month then postponed due to unforeseen circumstances.

Den Hollander expressed in a 1700-page memoir Hollander self-published online earlier this year his utter contempt for Judge Salas, calling her “a lazy and incompetent Latina judge appointed by Obama.” Still, Den Hollander said he “wanted to ask the Judge out, but thought she might hold me in contempt.” The memoir showed not just his hatred of Judge Salas but indeed women in general, including of his mother – dedicating the memoir to her writing “May she burn in Hell” –  and other women. He was especially scornful about female judges, with writings that include fantasizing about the violent rape of a judge who presided over his divorce case, that marriage of a woman he had a relationship with when he lived in Moscow who he threw out of their apartment a few months after they were married, saying she married him for her green card. He in particular said of Hispanic female judges, “Latinas, however, were usually a problem—driven by an inferiority complex.”

A MRA with links to listed hate group A Voice for Men, the world’s largest Men’s Rights group pic.twitter.com/MpTfTAjFa5

— TakedownMRAs (@TakedownMRAs) July 20, 2020

Den Hollander had become notorious in the courts for his many lawsuits alleging that women get unconstitutional special treatment. He sued a nightclub for human rights violations for charging $350 for a bottle of vodka – a case he lost – and sued other nightclubs for holding Ladies Nights saying they violated the 14^th amendment. He also filed suit in 2008 against Columbia University, accusing what he called its “femi-nazi” women’s studies program of spreading bigotry against men. He appeared on a Fox News program at the time and went on such a misogynistic rant that host Neil Cavuto asked point blank “You have issues don’t you? A former producer at WABC-TV in New York, he gained a prominence in the media as a Men’s Rights Activist (MRA), appearing on other news programs as well as on late night talk shows. After a string of legal defeats, he told the New York Daily News that he was feeling the need to take things further, saying “I’m beginning to think it’s time for vigilante justice—civil disobedience,” and adding that he “may pull a Carrie Nation on the Ladies’ Nights clubs.”

According to journalist Emily Gorcenski who in a tweet presented screenshots from a blog associated with him, Den Hollander was also a fan of conservative propagandist Andy Ngo, and cheered on his attempt to sue Portland-area group Rose City Antifa. Curiously, Ngo was one of the speakers at a Minds.com conference last August that was supposed to be held in Pittman, NJ but moved to nearby Philadelphia after the venue shut its doors to the event. The conference featured and was attended by many in the MRA circles.

Hi @mrandyngo,

I see that Roy Hollander interacted with you before. Did you know him personally? He seemed to be quite a fan of your lawsuits. pic.twitter.com/BwEmi5skmP

— Emily of the State (@EmilyGorcenski) July 20, 2020

In October 2008, comedian Jim Norton was sued by New York City attorney Roy Den Hollander after he did a phone interview on Opie and Anthony radio show where Norton savaged him with crass insults and calling him stupid. Almost a year later, after Norton filed a motion to have him sanctioned $10,000 for filing a baseless claim, Den Hollander settled with Norton, agreeing to withdraw his suit with Norton agreeing to withdraw the motion. Coincidentally, Den Hollander’s attack on the Salas home was on Norton’s 52^nd birthday.

The attack on the Salas home also comes a week after Marc Angelucci, another prominent attorney in MRA circles as the vice president and board member of the National Coalition for Men was gunned down at his home in San Bernardino County, California. The Salas home attack mirrored the Angelucci killing with someone posing as a delivery person, shoots and kills him as he answered the door. Angelucci recently filed a successful lawsuit against the Selective Service regarding male-only draft. When Den Hollander was found, he had papers with Angelucci’s name on them, although the nature of the papers were not known. In addition, he had an empty FedEx package with Judge Salas’ name on it, which investigators believe the lawyer may have intended to use to get face-to-face with the judge, a .380 pistol, and the name and photo of another female judge, New York State’s chief judge, Janet DiFiore. Federal agents notified her of that development, but it is unknown what Den Hollander’s intentions were.