By CatholicVote | Created at 2025-04-02 23:36:14 | Updated at 2025-04-04 16:40:47
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CV NEWS FEED // The California man who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022, motivated by the Court’s anticipated pro-life ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson is set to plead guilty, according to a letter signed by his legal team Wednesday.
Nicholas Roske, 29, was arrested outside Kavanaugh’s Maryland home in the early morning of June 8, 2022. He was armed with a Glock pistol, zip ties, duct tape, and other weapons.
Roske later admitted he intended to kill Kavanaugh to block the Supreme Court’s pro-life majority.
As CatholicVote reported, Roske’s “online communications and own words to police clearly indicate that the then-pending abortion decision was the main motive in Roske’s failed attempt on Kavanaugh’s life.”
The assassination attempt occurred just weeks after the unprecedented leak of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson, which ultimately overturned Roe v. Wade and returned abortion policy to the states.
The leak triggered an immediate wave of pro-abortion violence, as radicals targeted churches, pregnancy centers, and pro-life organizations. Within hours of the leak, acts of intimidation, threats, and violence spread across the country.
Since then, CatholicVote has tracked nearly 100 attacks on pro-life centers and churches–including firebombings, property destruction, vandalism, and harassment.
Despite growing unrest, the US Marshals Service claimed shortly after Roske’s arrest that it was “unaware of any specific, targeted threat” to Supreme Court justices.
Meanwhile, the Biden White House faced criticism for refusing to condemn protests.
Then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki declined to denounce the protests taking place outside the homes of Supreme Court justices, as The Daily Signal previously reported.
In a similar case, Neal Sidhwaney, a 43-year-old man from Florida, pled guilty in December 2023 to threatening the life of Chief Justice John Roberts, another member of the Court’s pro-life majority.
As part of Wednesday’s filing, Roske submitted a signed letter acknowledging that he traveled to Washington, D.C., with the intent to kill Kavanaugh and that prosecutors could prove his intent “beyond a reasonable doubt.”
Roske is expected to formally enter his guilty plea next week and faces a potential life sentence.
