NEW: Court Filings Confirm Leak of Roe v. Wade Overturn Docs Inspired Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin

The man who allegedly attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in the summer of 2022, Nicholas Roske, is languishing in jail as the wheels of justice turn with painful sluggishness. In the latest development, his lawyers are trying to get a great deal of the evidence against Roske squashed.

The legal motions submitted to U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte argue that police lacked a warrant to search Roske’s belongings after they arrested him in the early morning hours of June 8, 2022. They also contend that Roske wasn’t given Miranda warnings before being questioned at the scene and that his statements weren’t voluntary because he was suffering from a mental health crisis while being interrogated at a police station in Bethesda.

For whatever reason, this process has been agonizingly slow. Roske has been jailed since his arrest and has not sought pre-trial release.

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The interesting bit is what the documents show about Roske's statements. He was, he says, driven to this action, not only by the leaked draft of the Roe v. Wade overturn, but also by the Supreme Court's possible upcoming pro-Second Amendment decisions, as the Politico story linked above noted:

Roske also said he was disturbed by the recent trend in Supreme Court rulings toward an increasingly broad interpretation of gun rights. His anger over that issue grew in the wake of high-profile mass shootings that took place in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, in the weeks before Roske bought the Glock handgun from a gun store in California, flew to Dulles Airport and took a taxi to Kavanaugh’s home in the middle of the night.
“Another motivating factor was I heard that the current court was thinking about loosening gun restrictions and so, the one-two punch of Buffalo and then (indiscernible) and then hearing that this person that I was already upset with was planning on making it easier for people to do stuff like that,” Roske told a Montgomery County, Maryland, detective.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton has released images of some of the documents on X, and it makes for interesting reading.

DISTURBING: New federal court filing confirms that, as feared, the illicit (and "unsolved") leak of the Supreme Court abortion draft ruling inspired assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh. Defendant Nicholas Roske told local police and FBI he planned to break into Kavanaugh's… pic.twitter.com/lWWHsRSevU
— Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) January 5, 2025

Fitton's post states in part:

The Biden-Garland Justice Department has slow-walked the prosecution of Roske's attempted murder of Kavanaugh (and his family)--it has been nearly 3 years since Roske was arrested near Kavanaugh's home! (Biden and Garland endorsed and allowed ILLEGAL protests outside HOMES of Supreme Court justices!)

Put it all together and it presents some interesting conclusions:

1) Nicholas Roske is kookoo for Cocoa Puffs, but he appeared to be lucid enough to obtain a handgun, zip ties, and other paraphernalia, to travel across the country, to find Justice Kavanaugh's house and plan to attack him; who knows what would have happened had it not been for his sister talking him down.

2) For some insane reason, the Biden Justice Department is dragging its feet on this prosecution. Someone might try reminding them that the 6th Amendment's recognition of a defendant's right to a "speedy and public trial" doesn't mean years after the initial crime.

3) Most of all - once again it is a creature of the left that leaps off into the deep end and starts planning murder and mayhem because of a political or judicial setback. Roske stated he was upset that the Supreme Court understands the 2nd Amendment - so he reacted by obtaining a gun and planned a murder.

U.S. District Judge Peter Messitte will hear arguments on these defense motions in April. Roske's trial is currently scheduled for June 9th - more than two years since his alleged attempt on the life of a Supreme Court justice.