Pretty far fetched an Illinois legislator hires a hitman for a FOSS developer.
But to humor you, if they did, the distro would carry right on, so they would be taking a lot of risk with no progress on their objective.
I only sign like 1/3 releases these days so I am replaceable now. Decentralized control and decentralized trust was the whole point of stagex.
Representatives of the US government threaten to drone bomb anyone they disagree with all of the time now