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The Brett Kavanaugh Assassination Plot Aimed to Kill Multiple Justices to Preserve Roe v. Wade

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Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and retired Justice Anthony Kennedy attend President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress in Washington, D.C., March 4, 2025.

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The Brett Kavanaugh assassination plot was bad enough as it was originally revealed when the assassin (Nicholas Roske, a man identifying as a woman in court proceedings, a fact first reported in 2022) encountered law enforcement and turned himself in. The assassin has pleaded guilty and will soon be sentenced. A Justice Department sentencing memorandum filed on Friday, seeking a 30-year prison sentence, laid out more details, revealing the extent of the assassin’s advance planning:

This was a chillingly calculated attack, and it aimed to go beyond Kavanaugh, although the filing carefully avoids naming the other targets in the unsealed public portion of the filing:

Dan McLaughlin

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Dan McLaughlin

Dan McLaughlin is a senior writer at National Review Online and a fellow at National Review Institute.

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