# Kavanaugh assassination attempt thwarted **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 10, 2022, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955 "2022-06-10T05:11:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/21 "2022-06-10T18:47:33Z")
I hate that I had to look that up to be sure whether or not you were being facetious. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/22 "2022-06-10T18:48:46Z")
> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#): > > I imagine this question has been asked in the past, but what would happen after a successful SC justice assassination? Would the sitting president push through their own choice, or find someone with the same political views as the one who was killed? I don’t see any reason to treat it differently than any other vacancy. Except trying to take away the motive for the next guy, but I don’t think anyone would give up a chance to get someone they wanted on the Court for such a reason. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/23 "2022-06-11T02:57:53Z")
> [@Cheesesteak](#): > > {…} Seems to me this is just a big whinge fest over basically a normal tourist visit. A guy walking around with a suitcase and typical American tourism accessories is now suddenly a big problem. So very much this. I have become a monster and it’s in no way my fault. ---
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/24 "2022-06-11T03:06:14Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The bad guy should be charged with having the gun, travelling with the gun, that kind of thing, as the law in Mayland applies. Maryland is may-issue. I doubt Kavanaugh thinks their gun law is constitutional. But I hope I am proven wrong when the New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v Bruen ruling comes out in the next month or so. ---
**Author:** ![phs3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phs3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phs3)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/25 "2022-06-11T14:34:01Z")
Left? Hardly: ““Roske indicated that he believed the justice that he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,” the affidavit said.” So Kavanaugh isn’t far-right enough for this guy. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/26 "2022-06-11T14:44:07Z")
He was afraid that Kavanaugh would loosen gun-control laws. In other words, he wanted tighter gun control. At least, if this guy is speaking coherently, which is not something to be taken for granted in cases like this. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/27 "2022-06-11T15:24:21Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Thoughts and prayers. > [@Projammer](#): > > So, no worries since it’s someone you don’t approve of. Interesting point of view you’re revealing here. If offering thoughts and prayers after a gun-related crime is a meaningless gesture then it’s been so all the times conservatives have done it. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/28 "2022-06-11T15:40:31Z")
Wounding counts too. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/29 "2022-06-11T15:56:03Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Interesting point of view you’re revealing here. If offering thoughts and prayers after a gun-related crime is a meaningless gesture then it’s been so all the times conservatives have done it. No, no, it’s different when they do it. Because they’re Compassionate Conservatives™ and not Godless Antifa Marxists like Nancy Pelosi doing their best to sell out the country to ~~Russia~~ ~~China~~ Cuba. Yeah, Cuba…they’re the real strategic threat to American values. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2022, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/30 "2022-06-11T21:25:56Z")
Certainly true. Putting an eye out, wrench to the kneecap, …hair touselling? Would a hair touselling count? Maybe a forceful enough hair touselling. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/31 "2022-06-13T01:14:03Z")
Atomic Wedgie? ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2022, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/32 "2022-06-13T01:16:44Z")
“It’s a DRINKING GAME! I LIKE BEER! BOYS LIKE BEER, GIRLS LIKE BEER, _I LIKE BEER!!!_” Stranger ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/33 "2025-04-02T17:22:45Z")
> Roske, who was 26 when he was arrested, intends to plead guilty to attempting to murder a justice of the United States **without reaching a plea agreement with federal prosecutors** , according to his lawyers. The charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. > **[Man who had gun and knife will plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme...](https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-justice-kavanaugh-roske-threat-93dc0806da374b53126120d90bfa77e1)** > > A California man's attorneys say he'll plead guilty to trying to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in a suburb of Washington, D.C. I think it is crazy to agree to a sentence which could result in life in prison without a plea agreement for a substantially reduced sentence considering the circumstances of the attempt. ---
**Author:** ![RitterSport](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rittersport/32/6326_2.png) [@RitterSport](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RitterSport)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/34 "2025-04-02T17:26:03Z")
I don’t understand why anyone would agree to that, unless the lawyers are just terrible. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/35 "2025-04-02T17:26:36Z")
Maybe he is afraid of being “disappeared” to another country’s prison through “bureaucratic error”? ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955/36 "2025-04-02T18:21:15Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I don’t understand why anyone would agree to that, unless the lawyers are just terrible. Some people (not many) just want to take their lumps and not drag it out. Also, I’m sure he’s been told the chances of some amount of leniency from the judge is greater with a plea, even if the government isn’t part of the deal. His lawyers know more about the judge that will sentence him than we do, and perhaps correctly advised him that this was the safest path. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kavanaugh-assassination-attempt-thwarted/965955.md?page=1)