The man who allegedly tried to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh revealed what inspired him in the failed 2022 attempt.

Court documents filed last week show that Nicholas Roske admitted being “suicidal” as he planned his attempt to kill the justice, also telling law enforcement that the leaked draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case was what inspired him to execute his plan.

“Kavanaugh supported the opinion, which signaled the court would overturn Roe v. Wade. Roske added that a recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, had him worried Kavanaugh ‘would side with 2nd Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,’ the affidavit states,” The Washington Post reported.

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

The Supreme Court’s “thinking about loosening gun restrictions” spurred on Roske’s intent.

“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,” he said.

The transcript was made public last week as Roske is still awaiting trial.

He faces one count of attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice in the case that is set for trial in June after a no plea agreement.

“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 Hill reported.

“My plan was to kill Mr. Kavanaugh and then myself,” Roske told a special agent after his arrest, as the transcript shows.

“I’ve been suicidal for a long time, and when I saw 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,” he told law enforcement.

Roske’s motivation and the latest in the case, including the fact that no trial had yet commenced under President Joe BIden’s watch set off a wave of angry social media reactions.

We all knew this was true but now it’s been confirmed

— Toxic Miscuelinity (@Dave_DelFavero) January 5, 2025

The Injustice Department under the Biden Handlers Administration is rotten to the core.

— Jeremy Matthews (@Sarcasm_Sells) January 6, 2025

So Biden’s DOJ can track down every grandma that walked around the Capitol, but they can’t seem to figure out cases like this or the J6 pipe bomber. Strange how that works, isn’t it?

— ScrollofTruth (@ScrollofTruthIF) January 5, 2025

This should remove all doubt that Merrick Garland is a complete and colossal failure. Why has the DOJ been slow-walking this case? It’s been 3 years. Yet somehow they managed to speed-walk the Trump cases.

— Alaskan Tequila (@LTequila4) January 5, 2025

I believe that was the goal of the leaker. They wanted to gin up such outrage that a person, who was already on the edge mentally, would think they were “saving democracy” by doing away with at least one conservative-leaning SCOTUS Justice.

— cfromthewoods (@cfromthewoods) January 5, 2025

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