Man Pleads Guilty to Bringing Dozens of Homemade Explosive Devices to DC Church Before Supreme Court Term

A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Thursday to charges that he brought dozens of homemade explosive devices to a Washington, D.C., church timed to the start of a Supreme Court term, in a case that authorities say could have resulted in mass casualties at a house of worship in the nation's capital. The guilty plea in the case of Louis Geri reveals the chilling specificity of a plot that targeted a church -- a choice of venue that investigators believe was intended to send a message about the intersection of faith and politics in a city where both are practiced with fervent intensity. The case adds to a growing pattern of threats against houses of worship that has made church security a grim new reality for congregations across America.