JUST IN: Bombshell Details Emerge In Assassination Plot Against Conservative SCOTUS Justice

A conservative member of the U.S. Supreme Court was being targeted for assassination by a mentally ill man who had told authorities that he identifies as transgender.

The disclosure, made this week as part of court filings, dates back to the arrest of Nicholas Roske, a California man who traveled to the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 with a bag of burglary tools and weapons. Instead of killing the justice, Roske called the police outside of Kavanaugh’s home and turned himself in.

Now the deeply ill, suicidal suspect has told a Maryland judge that he identifies as a transgender woman named Sophie.

A plea agreement with Roske, 29, will see prosecutors recommend a sentence of 30 years in prison for attempting to kill a sitting Supreme Court justice. He first pleaded guilty in April 2025.

A footnote on the document, first obtained by the Daily Wire, shows that the defendant’s name has been changed “out of respect” for their preferred gender.

“The case is captioned as United States v. Nicholas John Roske,” lawyers for Roske state. “That name remains Ms. Roske’s legal name, and she has not asked to recaption the case. Out of respect for Ms. Roske, the balance of this pleading and counsel’s in-court argument will refer to her as Sophie and use female pronouns.”

A source familiar with the case said that Roske was using a female identity online before his arrest. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi told The Wire that Roske is a “disturbed individual” capable of “political violence.”

“This attempt against the life of a Supreme Court Justice was an attack on the entire judicial system that cannot go unpunished,” Bondi told The Daily Wire on Friday morning. “This Department of Justice condemns political violence and our prosecutors will ensure that this disturbed individual faces severe consequences for his deranged actions.”

New filings by U.S. Justice Department prosecutors argue that the sentence imposed on Roske must “send the unequivocal, clear, and strong message that attempted violence and threats of violence against members of the judiciary — as well as other public and federal officials — cannot and will not be tolerated, and will be justly and severely condemned.”

The discovery of Roske’s transgender nomenclature is significant, given the high-profile murder of Charlie Kirk and a suspected gunman who was in a relationship with a transgender roommate. A letter allegedly left by the suspect, Tyler Robinson, suggested that he murdered Kirk to “protect” Lance Twiggs, a man who identified as a woman.

A transgender shooter also carried out an attack on a Nashville, Tenn., Christian school in 2023.

Now, the DOJ is exploring the possibility of denying transgender individuals the right to purchase firearms, according to The Wire. The restriction would come as part of “a range of options to prevent mentally unstable individuals from committing acts of violence, especially at schools,” officials stated.