The transgender pretender and biological male Nicholas Roske, who tried to kill Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh back in 2022, just got eight years in prison.
Here’s the news via Roll Call:
A federal judge sentenced the attempted assassin of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh to more than eight years in prison Friday.
Judge Deborah L. Boardman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, sentenced Sophie Roske, who is transgender and referred to as Nicholas Roske in some court documents, to 97 months in prison, along with lifelong supervised release.
Roske pleaded guilty to attempted assassination of a Supreme Court justice without a plea agreement earlier this year. Justice Department attorneys initially sought at least 30 years in prison for Roske, with the possibility of a life sentence.
According to court documents, Roske flew from California in June 2022 and took a taxi to the Maryland neighborhood where Kavanaugh lived. Roske then walked away from the house and called 911 to self-report, telling the operator of suicidal and homicidal thoughts and intended to act on them, according to court documents.
Boardman, in delivering the sentence, said that some of Roske’s actions, including turning herself in, justified the departure below the 30 years to life in prison that federal sentencing guidelines suggested.
“Though she got far too close to executing her plans, the fact remains that she abandoned them,” Boardman said.