{"id":1515100,"date":"2022-06-14T09:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515100"},"modified":"2022-06-14T09:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T13:49:43","slug":"the-sister-of-the-would-be-kavanaugh-assassin-might-have-saved-the-justices-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-sister-of-the-would-be-kavanaugh-assassin-might-have-saved-the-justices-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sister Of The Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Might Have Saved The Justice\u2019s Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-sister-of-the-would-be-kavanaugh-assassin-might-have-saved-the-justices-life%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p data-t=\"{\" n>He walked around the corner from Kavanaugh\u2019s house during this period of time and stood about 1.5 blocks away, the publication reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-t=\"{\" n>\u201cWe believe the presence of the deputies assigned outside of Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s home served as the deterrent in this incident,\u201d Drew J. Wade, chief of the Office of Public Affairs for the U.S. Marshals Service, said. \u201cWhile the deputies did not witness anything that would have resulted in an enforcement action, their vigilance and posture averted a potential violent act against the Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A DOJ\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.documentcloud.org\/documents\/22056069\/roskenicholas.pdf\">affidavit details<\/a>\u00a0how Roske allegedly traveled to Kavanaugh\u2019s home armed with weapons and burglary tools with the intent to kill the justice and prevent him from ruling on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/second-amendment\">Second Amendment<\/a>\u00a0and abortion cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn June 8, 2022, at approximately 1:05 a.m., two United States Deputy Marshals saw an individual dressed in black clothing and carrying a backpack and a suitcase, get out of a taxicab that had stopped in front of the Montgomery County, Maryland, residence of a current Justice of the United States Supreme Court,\u201d the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p>Roske looked at the two U.S. Marshals standing by their parked cars and then walked down the street, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>The Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center then received a call from an individual who identified himself as Nicholas John Roske. He said he had suicidal thoughts, had a gun in his suitcase, and had come from California to kill \u201ca specific United States Supreme Court Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police were dispatched to the justice\u2019s home, where they encountered Roske still on the phone with the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center. The officers took Roske into custody \u201cwithout incident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn inventory search of the seized suitcase and backpack revealed a black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, paper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crow bar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items,\u201d the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p>Roske told authorities that he was upset about the \u201cleak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to abortion as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.\u201d He indicated that \u201che believed the Justice that he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoske stated that he began thinking about how to give his life a purpose and decided that he would kill the Supreme Court Justice after finding the Justice\u2019s Montgomery County address on the Internet,\u201d the affidavit said. \u201cRoske further indicated that he had purchased the Glock pistol and other items for the purpose of breaking into the Justice\u2019s residence and killing the Justice as well as himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is not immediately clear whether the Kavanaugh family was at home when this incident occurred. The FBI\u00a0would not comment further to The Daily Wire on the Kavanaugh family\u2019s whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Top Republicans have attributed the attack to incendiary rhetoric from Democratic politicians. Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz warned last week: \u201cThe Biden admin encouraged protests outside of justices\u2019 homes. Schumer threatened: \u2018You have released the whirlwind &#038; you will pay the price!\u2019 Now a would-be assassin went to the home of a Supreme Court Justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The arrest comes after several weeks of angry protests at the Supreme Court and at the homes of conservative justices in the wake of the leak of a draft decision that would overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Pro-abortion protesters and some Democratic lawmakers have deemed the court as \u201cillegitimate\u201d in anticipation of the ruling in \u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/cert\/19-1392\">Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The man who says he sought to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh contacted his sister on his way to the justice\u2019s home, officials say \u2014 and that conversation may have swayed him from his original murderous plan. \u201cThe suspect arrived by taxi and observed the U.S. marshals, and he turned around to contemplate his &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":496,"featured_media":1515152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}