WASHINGTON, DC – Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed earlier in October that the Justice Department will plan to appeal the light sentence imposed on the man recently convicted of attempting to murder Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh back in June 2022.
As previously reported in Law Enforcement Today, 29-year-old Nicholas Roske pleaded guilty this past April for the attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh. His failed attempt was intended to have taken place in the early morning hours of June 8, 2022.
In the months leading up to Roske’s sentencing, a Justice Department memorandum noted they were seeking 30 years in prison for Roske’s attempt on Justice Kavanaugh’s life. Biden appointee Maryland U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman seemed to have a different sentence in mind for the would-be assassin, handing down a significantly lighter eight-year sentence on October 3 at the request of Roske’s defense team.
Apparently, Judge Boardman was sympathetic to the fact that Roske recently decided to identify as a “transgender woman,” referring to him with female pronouns and openly pondering whether he’ll be able to continue to receive cross-sex hormones while in federal prison. “Let’s not hide the fact that there is an executive order that essentially says individuals will be assigned to a facility according to the gender of their birth,” Judge Boardman said before the court during Roske’s sentencing.
In a justice system where possessing slightly less than 2 ounces of methamphetamine nets a defendant a mandatory minimum of ten years in federal prison, attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice seems to only result in eight years behind bars, which the aforementioned disparity wasn’t lost on AG Bondi.
Taking to the social media platform X following the news of Roske’s sentence, AG Bondi wrote, “The attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a disgusting attack against our entire judicial system by a profoundly disturbed individual. [The Justice Department] will be appealing the woefully insufficient sentence imposed by the district court, which does not reflect the horrific facts of this case.”
Although Roske’s eight-year term of confinement is contentious on its face, the individual will also harbor a lifetime supervision period upon his release, meaning any misstep that runs afoul of the law would ostensibly land him right back in prison.
It’s unclear when the Justice Department plans to get the ball rolling on an appeal of Roske’s sentence, nor is it clear whether the Justice Department will aim to modify the originally proposed sentence of 30 years.
As previously reported in Law Enforcement Today, 29-year-old Nicholas Roske pleaded guilty this past April for the attempted murder of Justice Kavanaugh. His failed attempt was intended to have taken place in the early morning hours of June 8, 2022.
In the months leading up to Roske’s sentencing, a Justice Department memorandum noted they were seeking 30 years in prison for Roske’s attempt on Justice Kavanaugh’s life. Biden appointee Maryland U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman seemed to have a different sentence in mind for the would-be assassin, handing down a significantly lighter eight-year sentence on October 3 at the request of Roske’s defense team.
Apparently, Judge Boardman was sympathetic to the fact that Roske recently decided to identify as a “transgender woman,” referring to him with female pronouns and openly pondering whether he’ll be able to continue to receive cross-sex hormones while in federal prison. “Let’s not hide the fact that there is an executive order that essentially says individuals will be assigned to a facility according to the gender of their birth,” Judge Boardman said before the court during Roske’s sentencing.
In a justice system where possessing slightly less than 2 ounces of methamphetamine nets a defendant a mandatory minimum of ten years in federal prison, attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice seems to only result in eight years behind bars, which the aforementioned disparity wasn’t lost on AG Bondi.
Taking to the social media platform X following the news of Roske’s sentence, AG Bondi wrote, “The attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a disgusting attack against our entire judicial system by a profoundly disturbed individual. [The Justice Department] will be appealing the woefully insufficient sentence imposed by the district court, which does not reflect the horrific facts of this case.”
Although Roske’s eight-year term of confinement is contentious on its face, the individual will also harbor a lifetime supervision period upon his release, meaning any misstep that runs afoul of the law would ostensibly land him right back in prison.
It’s unclear when the Justice Department plans to get the ball rolling on an appeal of Roske’s sentence, nor is it clear whether the Justice Department will aim to modify the originally proposed sentence of 30 years.
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