The Washington Post provided the latest update on a foiled transgender assassin on Tuesday. The headline: “She got eight years for plotting to kill Justice Kavanaugh. Prosecutors want more.”
Reporter Dan Morse led off the story:
The plot to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh was as bizarre as it was terrifying.
From her home in California, 26-year-old Sophie Roske figured out Kavanaugh’s address in suburban Maryland. She bought a gun, practiced shooting and acquired lock-picking tools, black face paint and a laser sight. After packing her gear into a suitcase she checked at the airport, Roske flew cross-country and took a cab to the justice’s home, arriving just after 1 a.m.
The only problem: “she” was a dude during her violent plotting and then pleading guilty. Throughout the story, there are 18 uses of “she” and 27 of “her” for Roske.
You have to read down to paragraph 26 for reality to kick in (sort of): “Roske was named Nicholas Roske at birth and raised as a boy in a Southern California family active in a large Evangelical church.” Is the church part supposed to make you feel sympathy for the guy?
The Post story noted Roske wrote on Discord about his anger over the overturning of Roe v. Wade, and he wanted to use violence to “Remove some people from the supreme court…I could get at least one, which would change the votes for decades to come, and I am shooting for 3.”
Federal prosecutors sought a 30-year sentence for Roske, complete with a “terrorism enhancement.” District Judge Deborah Boardman only gave him eight years, and the Post never mentioned this fact: Boardman was appointed by President Biden in 2021. The light sentence is why federal prosecutors appealed it. Roske's "mental health challenges" clearly were a factor, as the Post noted:
Boardman said that in weighing how long to sentence Roske, she factored in that Roske could face additional hardships in federal custody owing to assignment to a male prison and uncertainty about access to hormone treatment....
On the night Roske approached Kavanaugh’s home, the judge said, Roske “was in the throes of a mental health crisis.”
The judge emphasized that since her arrest that night and subsequent detention, Roske has shown a strong commitment to mental health treatment.
Morse also didn't Boardman's made other liberal decisions, as you would expect, like denying an injunction for parents demanding a right to remove their children from LGBTQ lessons in Montgomery County (Md.) schools.
This raises an obvious question: If Nicholas never decided to become Sophie, would he have received a harsher sentence? Would that be a reason nudging Nicholas into becoming Sophie three years after his arrest, and shortly before sentencing? The Post is never going to suggest there's anything but complete sincerity in Transgender Land.
