The assassin attempt at the Brett Kavanaugh judge sentenced to prison

A federal judge sentenced Nicholas Roske, who is now going through Sophie, to eight years in prison on Friday for trying to assassinate the Brett Kavanaugh judge in the weeks preceding the historic decision of Dobbs of the Supreme Court.

The sentence is much lower than the Ministry of Justice had sought. Prosecutors said Roske should face at least 30 years, while Roske’s defense team had requested eight.

Justice Deborah Boardman said during the condemnation hearing that even if Roske’s actions were “reprehensible”, the judge also examined a series of attenuating factors, including Roske “spontaneously admitted and cooperated with the police”.

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“I believe that Mrs. Roske understands that what she did was terribly pain. I find her sincere remorse,” said Boardman.

The MJ prosecutor, Coreen Mao, said that the sentence “should send the very strong and very clear message that the ends never justify violent means”.

The judge of the Supreme Court Brett Kavanaugh attended a breakfast in Washington, DC, on March 12, 2025. (Images Niall Carson / PA via Getty Images)

Kavanaugh also received A threat of death in April of someone who invoked the name of Roske and referenced by shooting the justice in the head, said Mao, stressing the need to dissuade such behavior. This revelation comes as the judges say that they have been faced with an increase in threats from people through the political spectrum in recent years.

During the hearing, Boardman referred to Roske as a transgender woman, and the lawyers of Roske recently declared in court that the legal name of their client is Nicholas, Roske is called Sophie and uses female pronouns.

Boardman, a person named from Biden, said that he has taken into account the sentence that his concern concerning Trump’s decree demanding that transgender prisoners be detained in prisons that correspond to their sex at birth.

Roske pleaded guilty in April for an accusation of trying to assassinate a judge from the Supreme Court, who carries a maximum perpetuity prison sentence.

On June 8, 2022, Roske flew from California to Virginia and took a taxi to Kavanaugh, armed with a pistol, a knife, a set of locking picking, an adhesive tape, a hammer, a doe foot and tactical equipment.

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The facade of the Supreme Court (Drew Angerer / Getty Images)

In the weeks preceding the incident, the defendant looked a lot online information on several judges, mass shooters, means of harming people and graphic images of people with knives. A research was read: “Does the torsion or the drag of a knife cause more damage.”

Roske’s story of the Internet also pointed out the desire to affect the outcome of the Dobbs decision which then took place, in which the Supreme Court was to cancel federal law on abortion.

The assassination attempt occurred at a time when activists protested in front of the houses of conservative judges, bringing the Doj to deploy American marshals in their homes to ensure security 24 hours a day.

Roske admitted to having noticed marshals at the Kavanaugh house, who, the prosecutors, said that Roske to change their course and walk in the street before self-relaxing at 911.

Roske’s objective was explicitly both to modify the result of an undergoing supreme courtyard, a substantial affair “and to” change the composition of the court for decades to come, “Mao told the judge.

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Crowds outside the court reacting to Dobbs’ decision in June 2022. (Joshua Comins / Fox News)

Roske’s lawyers played part of the call to 911 for the courtroom, in which Roske tells a distributor of “suicidal and homicide thoughts”. Lawyers have pointed out that Roske had long been depressed and sought treatment.

Appearing in a yellow combination in the courtroom, Roske apologized for having terrorized Kavanaugh and his family and having “contributed to the experience of the judges of fear as a result of their work”.

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“I was described as a monster, and this tragic error that I made will follow me for the rest of my life,” said Roske.

The judge also condemned Roske to a supervised liberation life. The DoJ is able to call on the penalty because it is well under the sentence determination guidelines.