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Sorry, But I Just Don’t Care About Brett Kavanaugh’s Safety.
Why should I?
If you get news alerts to your phone, you’ve heard the news that someone drove across the country and claimed he wanted to kill Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh.
Ellie Silverman, Dan Morse, Katie Mettler and Devlin Barrett with The Washington Post write:
“A man with a gun and a knife was detained by police early Wednesday near the Maryland home of Brett M. Kavanaugh after making threats against the Supreme Court justice, according to local and federal officials.
Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, Calif., was charged with attempted murder of a Supreme Court justice after he called authorities and said he was having suicidal thoughts and wanted to kill a specific justice, according to federal prosecutors.
Roske was “upset” by the leaked draft of an opinion by the Supreme Court signaling that it is positioned to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 49-year-old decision that guarantees a person’s constitutional right to abortion, as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., according to an affidavit filed Wednesday in federal court…”
One doesn’t even need to read accounts of what happened to know that obviously, Republican lawmakers will be shocked, chagrined, and demand that something…
