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June 9, 2022

Police Arrest Man for Allegedly Plotting to Kidnap or Kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh
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Police in Maryland have arrested a man they say plotted to kidnap or
kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Twenty-six-year-old
California resident Nicholas John Roske was reportedly found carrying a
knife and a gun outside Kavanaugh's home in Montgomery County.
Prosecutors say Roske called the police himself; they say he was having
suicidal thoughts and was upset by a leaked draft opinion showing the
court's conservative majority is prepared to strike down abortion rights
under Roe v. Wade. Attorney General Merrick Garland promised a swift
response.

Attorney General Merrick Garland: "Threats of violence and actual
violence against the justices of course strike at the heart of our
democracy, and we will do everything we can to prevent them and to hold
people who do them accountable."

Senate Republican Minority Leader Mitch Mc Connell demanded the House
immediately pass a bill to provide more security for Supreme Court
justices and their families. Mc Connell continues to support a
Republican filibuster of gun controls proposed by Democrats in the wake
of the massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde.


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