Federal prosecutors have revealed disturbing new details in the case of a California man who pleaded guilty in the Kavanaugh attempted assassination plot. Nicholas Roske, who traveled across the country in 2022 intending to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
He also targeted at least three other members of the high court. According to the Justice Department, his motive was to “single-handedly alter the constitutional order for ideological ends.”
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Premeditated Plot to Kill Supreme Court Justices
Roske was arrested outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home in June 2022 carrying a Glock 17 pistol, ammunition, knife, lock picks, pepper spray, and tools designed for a break-in. He admitted in April 2024 to attempting to kill or kidnap a Supreme Court justice.
In a sentencing memorandum filed Friday, prosecutors urged the court to impose a 30 years-to-life sentence, calling his plan an “abhorrent form of terrorism.”
