The California man who tried to assassinate Supreme Court docket Justice Brett Kavanaugh following the leak of an opinion overturning Roe v. Wade was sentenced to eight years and one month in federal jail Friday
The sentence imposed upon Nicholas Roske — who now identifies as a trans lady named “Sophie” — by Biden-appointed federal choose Deborah Boardman, amounted to a defeat for federal prosecutors, who had requested that Roske be sentenced to 30 years to life.
Roske was arrested outdoors Kavanaugh’s Maryland house in June 2022, carrying a Glock 17 pistol, ammunition, a tactical gentle, zip ties, pepper spray and housebreaking instruments. He informed investigators he deliberate to kill the justice after the Supreme Court docket’s draft determination in Dobbs v. Jackson Ladies’s Well being was revealed the earlier April by Politico.
