{"id":32373,"date":"2025-10-03T12:02:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32373"},"modified":"2025-10-03T12:02:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T12:02:26","slug":"federal-judge-to-sentence-justice-brett-kavanaughs-attempted-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investmentbankingrules.com\/?p=32373","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge to sentence Justice Brett Kavanaugh\u2019s attempted assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"

A judge is set to sentence Nicholas Roske on Friday for attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the weeks leading up to the high court\u2019s landmark Dobbs decision.
\nThe Department of Justice has asked for 30 years in prison, while Roske\u2019s attorneys have asked for eight years.
\nIn a sentencing memorandum, prosecutors said Roske showed up at Kavanaugh\u2019s house on June 8, 2022, armed with a pistol, ammunition, a knife, a crowbar and tactical gear, intending to kill the conservative justice and three other justices.
\nThe potential impact of Roske\u2019s conduct was \u2018immeasurable and staggering,\u2019 prosecutors said.<\/p>\n

\u2018By targeting and planning to kill \u2018at least one,\u2019 but \u2018shooting for 3\u2019 justices of the Supreme Court, the defendant sought single-handedly and irrevocably to alter an entire branch of the United States government through violence,\u2019 they wrote.
\nRoske\u2019s attorneys argued in their own memorandum that three decades in prison, which included terrorism and other enhancements, did not fit the crime.
\nRoske pleaded guilty in April to one count of attempting to murder a Supreme Court justice, which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
\nThe defense attorneys noted how Roske called 911 soon after arriving at Kavanaugh\u2019s house and \u2018self-reported her plans, intentions, and actions\u2019 instead of moving forward with attacking Kavanaugh.
\nRoske\u2019s lawyers also said Roske suffered severe depression and that their client\u2019s ominous online searches about mass shootings and various justices, which the DOJ factored into its sentencing recommendation, were not indicative of an intent to murder multiple justices.<\/p>\n

\u2018As any internet user knows, Googling and doom-scrolling, even in dark corners of the internet, does not equate to criminal intent,\u2019 the defense attorneys wrote. \u2018A user\u2019s internet content is voluminous, intensely personal, and can easily be taken out of context.\u2019
\nTwo weeks prior to the sentencing hearing, Roske\u2019s attorneys also notified the court that while their client\u2019s name had not formally changed, Roske wanted to begin going by the name \u2018Sophie\u2019 and female pronouns.\u00a0
\n\u2018Out of respect for Ms. Roske, the balance of this pleading and counsel\u2019s in-court argument will refer to her as Sophie and use female pronouns,\u2019 the footnote stated.<\/p>\n

Roske\u2019s sentencing comes at a time when judges have repeatedly raised alarms about threats they have received from ideologically-driven suspects across the political spectrum.
\nThe attempted assassination in 2022 occurred just two weeks before the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade, an expected decision that had drawn protesters to the Supreme Court building and conservative justices\u2019 houses for weeks leading up to it.
\nLast year, an Alaska man named Panos Anastasiou was indicted on charges of sending hundreds of messages to Supreme Court justices that included threats to murder them.\u00a0
\nAnastasiou stands accused of making specific threats toward six justices of shooting, strangling, \u2018lynching\u2019 and beheading them.
\nThis is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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