Like other conservative Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh dealt with a scary incident in 2022 after a man showed up outside of his private residence with the intent to assassinate him.
According to The Hill, new details have emerged regarding the suspect, including that he told authorities killing Kavanaugh would "make the world a better place" and admitted that he had planned the assassination attempt for a month prior to the incident.
The new details emerged from fresh court documents released on Friday.
The suspect, Nicholas Roske, will face trial beginning in June. There was no plea deal reached and he was charged with one count of attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice.
The transcript of Roske's conversation with authorities came after he filed a motion "arguing his statements are inadmissible and he was unconstitutionally searched."
He reportedly told a special agent at the local police station, "My plan was to kill Mr. Kavanaugh and then myself."
The Hill noted:
His public defenders argue Roske was not read his constitutional rights before police questioned him outside the conservative justice’s home. When authorities interviewed him at the police station hours later, Roske hadn’t validly waived his rights, his attorneys said.
The new documents shed light on Roske's mental health issues. For example, Roske connected his intention to kill Kavanaugh with being "actively suicidal."
Not surprisingly, Roske was sparked to go through with the attempt after expressing frustration over the leaked Supreme Court draft that indicated the high court was set to overturn Roe v. Wade.
"I’ve been suicidal for a long time, and when I saw that the leaked draft, it made me upset and then it made me want to — I don’t know. I was under the — I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him," the suspect told authorities at the time.
Roske also told cops that he was frustrated at the high court's consideration of "loosening gun restrictions."
"Hearing that this person that I was already upset with was planning on making it easier for people to do stuff like that, you know," Roske said.
Roske had previously been placed on three psychiatric holds.
Roske’s public defenders wrote, "Here, the government does not claim that there was a search warrant for any of the searched items. Thus, the search of the suitcase, backpack, and gun case along with the seizure of their contents are only lawful if the police officers’ conduct fits within one of the narrow exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement."
