Nicholas Roske, the would-be assassin who targeted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022, told law enforcement that he had been inspired by the leak of a draft opinion in the case that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Police arrested Roske in June 2022, after the defendant allegedly traveled to Maryland from California to murder Kavanaugh. The Biden administration continued to allow protests at Kavanaugh’s house, against existing federal law.
Roske has been waiting three years for a trial. His lawyers filed Friday to suppress evidence of his confession to federal investigators, saying that he had not been apprised of his rights at the time.
The Washington Post reported Friday (emphasis added):
Nicholas Roske, who authorities allege was concerned over the court’s rightward shift, is scheduled to be tried in June on a charge of attempting to kill a Supreme Court justice. His attorneys do not want jurors to hear statements in which, according to authorities, Roske told investigators that he’d flown across the country in 2022 intending to break into Kavanaugh’s home in Chevy Chase, Maryland, kill the justice and then kill himself.
Roske told investigators then that was he upset by the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion, according to an