DOJ seeks 30-year prison sentence for attempted Kavanaugh assassin

20/9/2025 12:19

U.S. prosecutors on Friday asked a judge to sentence the person who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 to at least 30 years in prison.



The request from Justice Department lawyers, submitted in a court filing, came as the defendant's lawyers indicated their client now uses female pronouns and goes by Sophie Roske, rather than her birth name of Nicholas Roske.



On June 7 2022, Roske traveled from her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley to Maryland to Kavanaugh's residence. She called police after seeing U.S. marshals outside his house, telling the dispatcher she was suicidal and intended to kill Kavanaugh, according to court filings.



The filing stated that Roske, who pleaded guilty earlier this year and will be sentenced next month, "made a concerted and focused attempt to undermine and subvert the United States government."



It asserted that Roske had also spoken of assassinating other sitting Supreme Court justices, who were not identified.