Man Charged With Kavanaugh Assassination Plans to Plead Guilty (1)

April 2, 2025, 3:28 PM UTCUpdated: April 2, 2025, 4:06 PM UTC

An armed man who was arrested outside the home of Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 plans to plead guilty to a criminal indictment charging him with attempting to assassinate the Supreme Court justice.

Nicholas Roske “wishes to plead guilty to the one-count indictment,” his lawyers said in a letter submitted Wednesday in the US District Court for the District of Maryland.

The letter comes as a June trial date neared in the government’s prosecution of Roske. Authorities say Roske, of Simi Valley, California, was upset over a mass school shooting and the expected dismantling of abortion rights and traveled to Maryland ...

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