New details have been released from the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh by a deranged leftist.
The gunman, Nicholas Roske, told police that he was planning to break into Kavanaugh's house, shoot the Supreme Court justice, and then shoot himself.
The plan had been forming in his mind for a month following the unauthorized leak of the Supreme Court's draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade - and it all unraveled in seconds after an emotional phone call with his sister.
A redacted interview transcript between Roske and detectives was filed by Roske's lawyers as they fight to suppress evidence, arguing Roske wasn't in the right mental state to be informed of his rights.
"At the time, Mr. Roske was acutely suicidal, visibly exhausted, and had repeatedly expressed his need for psychiatric care,” they wrote in their motion.
Throughout the interview, Roske discussed his mental history and a condition that requires him to take medication, although the illness was redacted in the transcript.
Roske told police that he formed a "delusional" idea that killing Kavanaugh would "do something positive" after the leak of the court's Dobbs ruling, which ended the federal right to an abortion. He was also angry about two mass shootings in Buffalo, New York and Uvalde, Texas and believed the Supreme Court would make it easier to get guns.
"I’ve been suicidal for a long time, and when I saw that … leaked draft, it made me upset and then it made me want to—I don’t know,” Roske said. “I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him.”
Roske told police that he flew from his home in California to Dulles' International Airport in Virginia on June 7, 2022, arriving before midnight. He had already researched Kavanaugh's home, using Wikipedia and Google to pinpoint the residence.
Roske took a taxi to Kavanaugh's family home in the quiet suburb of Chevy Chase, Maryland, arriving in the early morning. He had with him tools to break into Kavanaugh's house, including a crowbar, as well as zip ties and a pistol that he had brought in a suitcase.
Kavanaugh was left unharmed after Roske called 911 and told them he needed psychiatric help. It was Roske's sister who convinced him to drop his murderous plot. Roske had texted her "I love you" and she responded with a concerned phone call.
“I told her what I was doing, I was up to, and she told me that that wasn’t the way to go about trying to make the world a better place and, you know, that she didn’t want to, you know, she wanted to have me as a sibling for the rest of her life and not, you know, with that ending,” he said.
Roske is facing a trial in June, and his lawyers are battling with prosecutors about what evidence the jury will see. His lawyers argue the police interview should be suppressed because he could not understand his Miranda rights warning.
They also say his rights were violated by a warrantless search of his belongings.
