Nicholas Roske did not just talk about violence. This adult male planned it. He bought a Glock, ammunition, tactical gear, and break-in tools. Roske then boarded a plane and flew across the country with the intent to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and three other conservative justices.

He told others online that he wanted to change the constitutional order by force. Now, the same adult male who set out to kill a sitting justice is begging for mercy. His lawyers and desperate parents are backing him up, insisting that because he now identifies as a woman named Sophie, he deserves therapy and support instead of decades behind bars.

The parents and family of Nicholas Roske are arguing that their son, the man who attempted to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, should be treated leniently and given an opportunity to “thrive” as a transgender woman, court documents show.

In startling letters dated September 19, Roske’s family describes the 29-year-old attempted assassin as “Sophie,” use female pronouns to describe Roske, and pushes for leniency for their family member, who pleaded guilty to the attempt to kill a United States Supreme Court Justice in April 2025, three years after authorities arrested him in Kavanaugh’s neighborhood, carrying a bag full of weapons and burglary tools. – The Daily Wire

I do not know what is worse: the arrogance of an adult male who thought he could change the Supreme Court with a Glock or the pathetic delusion of a family that believes a new name and a different set of pronouns can erase an attempted assassination. It is a grotesque display of entitlement and moral rot. They are not seeking justice. They are trying to rewrite reality, and they expect the rest of us to play along.

As a district judge prepares to sentence Nicholas Roske, who pleaded guilty to attempting to kill a Supreme Court justice, we are seeing very troubling filings in the case submitted by Roske and his family members.

In a handwritten letter to the judge, Roske describes the… pic.twitter.com/lqDIzB7LeC

— Carrie Severino (@JCNSeverino) October 2, 2025

The Self-Reporting Sympathy Play

Roske’s defense is not built on denying the facts because they are too obvious to deny. Instead, it leans on emotional manipulation. They keep circling back to two points. First, Roske called 911 on himself before he followed through. Second, that he now identifies as transgender and deserves care instead of punishment.

He bought the weapons, gathered the gear, boarded a flight with the intention of killing a Supreme Court justice, and showed up in Kavanaugh’s neighborhood with murder on his mind.

None of that disappears because he picked up the phone. It does not transform him into someone remorseful or noble. It only proves that after planning a political assassination, he decided surrender was a better option than dying in the attempt.

The Identity Card: A Get-Out-of-Jail Strategy

Roske’s family has flooded the court with letters about “Sophie,” pleading for compassion and promising therapy, nature walks, and support if he’s released. They talk about how “she” needs structure, how prison would be too harsh, how incarceration might prevent “her” from thriving. Thriving? Is one supposed to thrive in prison?

They’re betting that a federal judge will treat a transgender assassin differently from a male one. They’re hoping that by swapping pronouns and language, they can soften the reality of what he did. It’s a calculated move designed to make the justice system second-guess itself.

Changing your name doesn’t change your actions. Calling yourself Sophie doesn’t erase the fact that you planned to assassinate a Supreme Court justice. And no amount of “gender-affirming care” makes you less of a threat to the rule of law.

But The Judge

U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, a Biden appointee who previously ruled that parents in Maryland could not opt their children out of LGBT themed lessons, is now the one deciding how much mercy Nicholas Roske deserves.

Boardman was confirmed to the bench in 2021 after a career spent largely as a federal public defender, and that background matters. Judges with that perspective often approach criminal cases with built-in sympathy for mitigation arguments, exactly the kind Roske’s lawyers and family are now pushing. They are counting on a judge who might view gender identity, self-reporting, and emotional struggles as reasons to reduce his sentence rather than as calculated tactics to escape accountability. And given that Boardman was appointed by an administration that has spent years elevating identity politics above personal responsibility, there is every reason to believe she may be receptive to those arguments.

As I write this, Nicholas Roske is standing before Judge Deborah Boardman for sentencing, a hearing that will decide whether a man who plotted to assassinate a Supreme Court justice faces real justice or walks away with sympathy.

NewsNation is calling Nicholas Roske, the man who plead guilty to an assassination attempt on Kavanaugh, SOPHIE ROSKE.

His legal name is Nicholas Roske. He decided he was “Sophie” after trying to kill a Supreme Court justice. This is not news. Unacceptable garbage. pic.twitter.com/L57bbtgYF4

— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) October 2, 2025

The Media’s Mental Health Excuse Is Pure Hypocrisy

The host in this News Nation video repeatedly refers to Nicholas Roske as she and calls him Sophie, as if a name change and a pronoun swap erase the fact that an adult male planned to assassinate a Supreme Court justice. It is not reporting. It is narrative control, and it is a dangerous phenomenon.

And now, just like clockwork, the story is shifting. Suddenly, the talking points are about mental health and cries for help. Suddenly, the same people who insist that gender ideology is perfectly normal want to label it a mental illness. But only when it can be used as a legal shield. Conservatives have been warning for decades that there is deep psychological dysfunction at the core of radical gender ideology. The Left mocked us for saying so. They called us hateful. They called us intolerant. But now, when a violent criminal claims a new identity, they are the first to cry mental health crisis and demand leniency.

They cannot have it both ways. If this ideology is normal, then it should not be a mitigating factor when someone commits a crime. If it is a mental illness, as many of us have argued all along, then maybe we should stop building policy and culture around it. What they are doing instead is trying to weaponize both arguments at once: they push gender ideology as sacred and untouchable in the public square, but when one of their own crosses a legal line, they pull out the mental health card and beg for mercy.

A Pattern We Should Not Ignore

Roske is not the only one trying this. A disturbing pattern is emerging where violence wrapped in grievance and identity is later repackaged as a cry for help. The ICE shooter left anti-ICE messages on his bullets. The man who murdered Charlie Kirk bragged about it online and decorated his ammunition with gamer memes. The Catholic school shooter posted hate-filled manifestos before opening fire. And Luigi Mangione, who is accused of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson out of rage toward the health insurance industry, is now being praised by some as a hero, as if political murder is a noble act.

Different names, different ideologies, same playbook. Plan the violence. Justify it with a cause. And when it all falls apart, hide behind victimhood and demand sympathy. That is not accountability. It is theater. And it is working far too often because our culture and our institutions keep rewarding it, even celebrating it.

Justice Cannot Be Negotiated

Nicholas Roske is not a victim. He is an adult male who planned to assassinate a Supreme Court justice because he did not like a court decision. Now he wants the system to care more about his identity and feelings than his actions. If that works, we no longer have justice, we have excuses.

Roske deserves the maximum sentence because anything less tells future political assassins that violence can be softened with pronouns and self-pity. Justice cannot be negotiated, and it should not be bent for a man who tried to change the Constitution with a gun.

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