Potential assassination attempt against Justice Kavanaugh

MSN reports:

A man with a gun and a knife was detained by police early Wednesday morning near Brett M. Kavanaugh’s Maryland home after making threats against the Supreme Court justice, according to local and federal officials.

Authorities identified the man as Nicholas John Roske, 26, of Simi Valley, Calif., charging him with the attempted murder of a federal judge. The criminal complaint did not specifically name Kavanaugh. Efforts to immediately reach Roske’s family were unsuccessful. It is unclear whether he has an attorney. …

When Montgomery County Police Department officers were dispatched and arrested Roske without incident, he was still on the phone with 911, according to an affidavit. In his suitcase and backpack were a Glock 17 with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, a tactical knife, a hammer, a screwdriver, a crow bar, zip ties and duct tape, along with other gear.

After his arrest, according to the affidavit, Roske told police he was upset over the leaked draft of an opinion that would overturn the constitutional right to abortion and also over the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Tex.

This is a shocking development. The person who leaked the draft opinion bears some responsibility for this.

What is interesting (but not surprising) is how most US media are reporting this as a minor story. If a liberal Supreme Court Justice had been the subject of an assassination attempt by a right wing activist, the story would dominate the media for weeks and weeks.

Also the activist group that had published his home address on the Internet still turned up a few hours later for their daily harassment protest outside his home. How tone deaf is that? Someone has just turned up with a gun and knife to kill him and possibly his family, and you still hold your protest outside his house. Have these activists been condemned widely for this? Of course not.