The Day of the Jackalette

“I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family… accept their daughter for who she is,” Judge Boardman said.

The story of the Biden-appointed DEI judgette who sentenced the ex-man who planned to kill Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 to less than 30% of the standard term keeps getting better and better.

From the Daily Wire:

Transgender Man Who Planned To Assassinate Brett Kavanaugh Will Serve Just 8 Years

… By Luke Rosiak

Oct 3, 2025 DailyWire.com

GREENBELT, Md.—The man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 in an attempt to change the court’s balance of power was sentenced by a Joe Biden-appointed judge on Friday to 97 months in prison, granting the defendant’s request for an eight-year sentence.

Because Supreme Court Justices serve for life, they don’t have vice-justices who take over in case they are assassinated. So, murdering an opposition Justice is a rational political strategy in case your party controls both the Presidency and Senate, as Democrats did 51-50 (using Veep Kamala’s tie-breaking vote) in 2022.

Judge Deborah Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee to Maryland federal court, acknowledged there was “a whopping 22-year difference” between that and the minimum of 30 years called for by federal sentencing guidelines. …

Nicholas Roske traveled from California to Kavanaugh’s Maryland home armed with cache of weapons after a leaked document showed that the court planned to rule against liberals on abortion. Although he had meticulously planned the assassination for months, he had a change of heart outside the conservative justice’s home and called the police to turn himself in.

If I were the defense attorney, I would have cited numerous Christian teachings about sinners being saved by their change of heart at the last moment. But that probably would have just annoyed the half-Palestinian judge. I can’t find whether she’s half-Christian Palestinian or half-Muslim Palestinian, but she appears to be all woke.

He has been detained in the three years since, so with time served and good behavior, Roske’s sentence would mean he could be out four years after being sentenced on the charge of Attempt to Assassinate a U.S. Justice. …

Boardman said “Under the law I must consider the sentencing guidelines. The guidelines in this case are 360 months to life. It’s important to understand the Supreme Court stance on guidelines… They used to be mandatory, but in [a case called] Booker the Supreme Court held that they were advisory.”

The judge acknowledged that “this crime did involve domestic terrorism,” but undid most of the “terrorism enhancement” created by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to increase recommended punishments in terrorism cases.

“I have not seen evidence that the Sentencing Commission relied on evidence that it would reduce recidivism,” she said. She said recent research in the Georgetown Law Journal said terrorists are not uniquely incapable of being rehabilitated.

The sentencing took more than seven hours, with much of the time dedicated to discussing how Roske’s transgender identity meant he should get a lighter sentence.

In a more than hour-long speech justifying the light sentence, Boardman said “Ms. Roske came out to herself as transgender in 2020 but kept it secret. Ms. Roske’s sister came out as gay two years prior but Ms. Roske saw that their parents struggled to reconcile her sexuality with their religious beliefs.”

“I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family… accept their daughter for who she is,” Judge Boardman said.

After all, what’s more feminine than plotting a political assassination? Who can forget

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