Man with weapon detained near Brett Kavanaugh's home

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Source: Washington Post

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Man with weapon detained near Brett Kavanaugh's home

The man allegedly told police he wanted to kill the Supreme Court Justice, according to people familiar with the investigation.

By Devlin Barrett, Dan Morse and Ellie Silverman
June 8, 2022 at 10:10 a.m. EDT

A California man carrying at least one weapon near Brett Kavanaugh’s Maryland home has been taken into custody by police, after telling officers he wanted to kill the Supreme Court justice, according to people familiar with the investigation.

The individual, described as a man in his mid-20s, was found to be carrying at least one weapon and burglary tools, these people said, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation. Police were apparently notified that the person might pose a threat to the justice, but it was not immediately clear who provided the initial tip, these people said. The man apparently did not make it on to Kavanaugh’s property in Montgomery County, but he was stopped on a nearby street, these people said.

Two people familiar with the investigation said the initial evidence indicates the man was angry about the leaked draft of an opinion by the Supreme Court signaling the court is preparing to overturn Roe. v. Wade, the 49-year-old decision that guaranteed a person’s constitutional right to have an abortion. He was also angry over a recent spate of mass shootings, those people said.

The story is developing and will be updated.

Robert Barnes and Isaac Stanley-Becker contributed to this report.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/06/08/kavanaugh-threat-arrest-justice/

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BREAKING: California man taken into custody near Justice Kavanaugh's home with weapon

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California man taken into custody near Justice Kavanaugh's home with weapon
The man apparently did not make it on to Kavanaugh's property in Maryland, but he was stopped on a nearby street, people familiar with the investigation said.

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[BumRushDaShow]

1. The breaking just popped up on my iPad

It's gonna be a loooooonnnnnggggg summer.

[BeyondGeography]

2. He sounds bright

[Hugh_Lebowski]

3. Obviously a false flag meant to make liberals look bad

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Dude is clearly a crisis actor, (edit) paid off by the Koch family!

It's all about the gubmint taking our guns away.

Did I do that right, wingnut lurkers?

[geardaddy]

4. My thought, too.

[MontanaMama]

13. You beat me to it.

THIS…exactly.

[oldsoftie]

26. You left out "paid by Soros'. Points will be deducted.

[FarPoint]

30. Winner Winner....

Chicken Diner to You.

[JustAnotherGen]

32. Well done

That's EXACTLY what they sound like.

[mn9driver]

5. Anyone want to guess what Fox will spend the next 48 hours covering and lying about

…while ignoring everything else that will be happening?

[durablend]

8. Bingo!

Look! Squirrel!

[milestogo]

6. I share his sentiments, but I don't have a gun.

[Xipe Totec]

7. I hope they treat those weapons with all dignity and respect under the 2nd amendment.

[samnsara]

9. maybe this will force the rapist to resign

[TheProle]

15. Is that the landscape you want

Government officials resigning due to intimidation and death threats?

[intheflow]

17. Way to miss the point.

Kavanaugh never should have been confirmed, his resignation would only emphasize his cowardice we already know about.

[TheProle]

18. But he was and is therefore a sitting Justice

I didn't miss the point; he's reprehensible. Protest him, impeach him, I'm all for it.

I don't want to live in a country where duly elected or appointed officials are intimidated out of office by death threats.

[yonder]

23. Me neither but I think we're already there.

On the local/state level anyway.

[JustAnotherGen]

33. Yep

That train has left the station.

This is America now folks.

[tishaLA]

10. imagine how quickly they'd have discovered real gun reform

if, terribly, he'd succeeded.

[oldsoftie]

28. Nope. Still wouldn't have happened. Just increased security for THEM. nt

[AZLD4Candidate]

11. Amazing how police do their job for a VIP but nothing for children or anyone else

Unless they are unarmed.

[AllaN01Bear]

12. police can protect a corrupt supreme ct justice , but cant protect a school filled with kids .

[James48]

14. Arrested after TELLING POLICE what he was planning to do.

Nobody can accuse him of being a sharp tool, that’s for sure.

[TigressDem]

16. Now we'll get gun control

We will get gun control because DEMs are cracking up and starting to hunt and shoot Rethugs

[riversedge]

21. nope. don't think so. McConnell wants a SCOTUS bill passed before Sunset. ..............

sounds like an OK corral movie.

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[pandr32]

19. Does a 'weapon' mean a gun or a screwdriver?

Usually guns are identified as such--aren't they?

[Midnight Writer]

25. Pretty vague in the story, wasn't it?

[pandr32]

37. Me thinks on purpose

With the hearings beginning tomorrow I fully expect more stories breaking like this--stories of "the radical left" (as TFG always refers to non-MAGATS).

For all we know a handyman was picked up on-route to a job.

[riversedge]

20. McConnell insisting the House pass SCOTUS security bill before the sun sets today after armed man ar

@StevenTDennis
McConnell insisting the House pass SCOTUS security bill before the sun sets today after armed man arrested near Kavanaugh's home.

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I hope it is a false story but the Left does have a few crazies also.


@gartmartin9
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Something just doesn't sound right about this---too conveniently timed and just what GOP wants to distract from 1/6 hearings. Would not surprise me if police were complicit in sending out a false story.

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I value the lives of innocent children in school, so why not pass a bill to protect them before sunset, @LeaderMcConnell

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Brett “perjury king” Kavanaugh is about to corruptly rule to make it easier to for people outside his home to carry assault rifles… as well as making ectopic pregnancies death sentences… but, he’s mildly inconvenienced??? Can’t have that!!!

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[867-5309.]

24. Hoping for a bipartisan response?

Nope, Biden's fault.

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[TigressDem]

31. I will SEE your 1 SCOTUS and RAISE you 490 school shootings, McWafflenator.

TYPICALLY, DEMs DON'T BRING GUNS to peaceful protests.

This guy is probably actually a Proud Bois member.


BUT IF YOU WANT YOUR SCOTUS COVERED, pass OUR BILL FIRST.

[hadEnuf]

34. For decades Republicans have encouraged and allowed people who should not have guns to illegally

mass murder countless men, women and children in cold blood and in public.

Republicans must forcefully condemn violence and the mass murders of innocent adults and children.


In the meantime, screw Kavanaugh and McConnell. Suck it up, butter cup. How's it feel?

[PSPS]

41. "people who should not have guns" -- nope. They were all legally allowed to have their guns.

[hadEnuf]

48. Yup, legally they were able to have them but now it is clear that they shouldn't have had them.

The problem is that there is no way to find out if they are able to be responsible with guns by at least having universal background checks.

We can thank the NRA & GOP for that.

[The Grand Illuminist]

43. Knowing them....

They would call for the death penalty.

[Efilroft Sul]

27. Is the gun safe? Asking for our 2A friends.

[moonshinegnomie]

29. release him. using gun hugger logic

the first amendment grants freedom of speech. it doesnt say anything about except threats. since the gun huggers love their "shall not be infringed" line shouldnt the same thing apply to threats ???

(asking sarcastically)

[Deep State Witch]

35. I'll Bet SCOTUS

Does something about gun control NOW!

[gldstwmn]

36. I'm sure the guy was just mentally ill and the house needed better doors.

[zappaman]

38. Perhaps he needs less doors. n/t

[hadEnuf]

39. Hope Kavanaugh is crapping his pants over this.

If it were a Dem appointee the FoxGOP would be pushing for less gun laws.

[The Grand Illuminist]

40. What if he succeeded?

A question we all must ask.

[paulkienitz]

42. The far right wants the conflict to be settled by violence

because they think the only edge they've got left is that they have more guns and more willingness to use force. They know their cause is lost in the end if it's left to legitimate democratic discourse, so they turn to fantasies in which the race war they expect to fight becomes the biblical battle of Armageddon. If we try to respond in kind with guns we only reinforce that, pushing them toward armed uprising, which means we either end up in a brutal dictatorship or we shed a lot of blood preventing that. We can't be thinking that assassination attempts are a shortcut to reducing the power of the right wing.

[LiberatedUSA]

44. This should not be taken lightly.

The second a GOP justice is actually harmed or worse, will be the start of war. Their side will be after Democratic justices in retaliation.

This shit needs to be shut down harshly no matter the justice being threatened.

[MarineCombatEngineer]

45. +100. nt

[LaMouffette]

52. I hope I'm just being paranoid, but maybe this WAS a false flag operation carried out in the hope of

starting the civil war the extreme right wants so badly.

I mean, that would explain why the guy actually called the police and told him what he was about to do. He didn't really want to kill a GOP Supreme Court justice, or he would have hung up the phone and rushed in to BK's house and done the deed before the cops got there.

[LiberatedUSA]

53. I won't jump to that conclusion immediately...

…but I won’t rule it out either. I also would not rule out anarchists that are not on either side but want to see collapse.

[LaMouffette]

54. These are some scary effing times. We've been through scary times before. But how to

rise above our differences when the GOP and rightwing media are doing everything they can to sow division and drive us all even further apart?

I feel like they haven't really thought it through. If they get the one-party-in-power-forever that they want, with unregulated capitalism, the end of all social services, no public education, no taxes on the billionaires, and their policy of to-hell-with-climate-change-we'll-be-dead-in-a-hundred-years-anyway . . . Then what? I guess they don't care about anything beyond their own life spans.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

46. Wednesday night is protest night in front of the homes of Roberts and Kavanaugh.

Fri Jun 3, 2022: "We do this every Wednesday! 🤗🤗"

And a hot afternoon it was, too.

Ford Fischer Retweeted

Now: Abortion Rights Activists from
@RuthSentUs

@downrightimp
and
@OurRightsDC
passing Chief Justice John Robert’s home chanting “No privacy for us-no peace for you!” and “We’ll be back!”

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Btw - if folks are in the DMV area and want to join us when we go back…we do this every Wednesday! 🤗🤗

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Out Falls Church way:

I’m just here for the dancing…and the annoying of the Karens…and the rising up against fascism.

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[MarcA]

47. Unelected Job for Life + unpopular opinions + charged atmosphere equals Trouble n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

49. Police: Man Charged In Kavanaugh Threat Was Suicidal, Angry About Mass Shootings And Draft Ruling

Police: Man Charged In Kavanaugh Threat Was Suicidal, Angry About Mass Shootings And Abortion Draft Ruling
June 8, 2022

The New York Times reports:

Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, Calif., was charged with attempted murder after two U.S. deputy marshals saw him step out of taxicab in front of the justice’s house in Chevy Chase, Md., early Wednesday morning, dressed in black and carrying a suitcase, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland.

Mr. Roske saw the two deputies, who were standing next to their parked car, and walked down the street, according to a federal affidavit.

Soon after, the Montgomery County Emergency Communications Center received a call from Mr. Roske, who said he was having suicidal thoughts and had a firearm in his suitcase, according to the affidavit. He said he had traveled from California to Maryland “to kill a specific United States Supreme Court Justice,” the affidavit said.

CBS News reports:

Police found in his belongings a black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, a Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crow bar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items, the affidavit states.

After he was transported to the police department in Bethesda, Roske told a detective he was upset about the recent leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion in a blockbuster abortion case and the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

“Roske indicated that he believed the Justice that he intended to kill would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,” according to the affidavit.

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[FakeNoose]

50. We're living in NRA-Land now

It's the gun humpers' wet dream. They must all be so happy. SCOTUS gave them exactly what they wanted.

[cannabis_flower]

51. You mean

Injustice Kavanaugh?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

55. Abortion Rights Activists return in rain to Brett Kavanaugh's home

Now: Abortion Rights Activists return in rain to Brett Kavanaugh’s home, continuing their month’s long marathon of protests at SCOTUS homes.
@RuthSentUs

@OurRightsDC

@downrightimp
Their story: https://dcmediagroup.us/2022/06/06/abortion-rights-activists-build-movement-homes-right-wing-supreme-court-justices/

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[mahatmakanejeeves]

56. California man arrested near Kavanaugh's home, charged with attempted murder of justice

SCOTUS NEWS

California man arrested near Kavanaugh’s home, charged with attempted murder of justice

By Amy Howe on June 8 at 12:05 p.m. (updated on June 8 at 3:29 p.m.)

Police say that Nicholas John Roske was carrying a pistol, ammunition, a knife, zip ties, and other tools when he was arrested outside the Maryland home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh early Wednesday morning.

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