Kavanaugh Would-Be Assassin’s Light Sentence Sends Message That Violent Left Faces Different Standard

It seems in the wake of increasing political violence, assassinations, and left-wing terrorism, you can count on left-leaning judges to go easy on perpetrators.

That’s the takeaway from the lenient sentencing of Nicholas Roske, a man—who now identifies as a woman—convicted of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

Roske received a sentence on Friday of only eight years in prison despite the Department of Justice seeking 30 years.

Judge Deborah Boardman of U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, an appointee of President Joe Biden, made much of her sentencing ruling about how the defendant was transgender and how this incident brought the family together.

Boardman said, according to the Daily Wire, that “this crime did involve domestic terrorism,” but she undid the “terrorism enhancement” created by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to ensure terrorism charges brought heavier sentences.

“I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family … accept their daughter for who she is,” Boardman said of Roske’s mother in the sentencing. “I have attended [Parents, Families & Friends of LGBTQ+ People] meetings and learned about the LGBTQ+ community. I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie.”

Boardman further said that she was glad that the whole ordeal helped the Roske family “accept their daughter for who she is.”

The judge lamented the fact that an executive order by President Donald Trump made it so that Roske had to be put in a male prison.

“Let’s not hide the fact that President Trump issued an executive order saying transgender inmates would be assigned to prisons with their biological sex,” Board said according to the Daily Wire.

It must be noted that there is ample evidence that men in women’s prisons present a particular danger to female inmates.

Many conservatives on social were understandably outraged by Boardman’s ruling.

Attorney Mike Davis called it a “national disgrace.”

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, called for Boardman’s impeachment.

“This judge has demonstrated she is utterly unfit to be a federal judge,” Cruz said Monday on his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz”. “The House of Representatives should seriously contemplate impeaching this judge.”

Cruz said it was clear the decision was made because of ideology.

“If you are such a zealot, such a partisan ideologue, that you will not follow the sentencing guidelines … and instead you say, ‘You know what? This person’s transgender, and my ideology is such that I love transgenders.’ … That’s appalling,” Cruz said on the show. “I would love to have a trial in the Senate.”

I am honestly not surprised by this ruling, which took place in one of the increasingly Soviet-like courts in deep blue parts of the U.S. But this trend of left-leaning judges giving incredibly lenient sentences to violent left-wing activists based on the absurd idea that they were good people going through a rough time or who just made a little mistake isn’t new.

During the 2020 George Floyd riots two lawyers, Urooj Rahman and Colinford Mattis, took to the streets of New York City and firebombed a cop car. There is something particularly perverse about people who have been trained in the law violently attacking another part of the system that they’ve sworn to protect. If anything, the penalty should be particularly harsh for people who’ve violated that public trust, right?

Nope.

Despite facing 45 years in prison, both of these lawyers acting against the law got remarkably light punishments.

The Biden Justice Department dropped the top charges in the case and only asked for 18 to 24 months of prison time, with time served.

Mattis got sentenced to a year and a day in jail and Rahman was sentenced to 15 months.

At Rahman’s sentencing, the judge called her “a remarkable person who did a terrible thing on one night.” Yeah, same with O.J.

On the night of oopsies, Rahman replied to Mattis in a text about attacking cops, “Molotovs rollin’. I hope they burn everything down. Need to burn all police stations down and probably the courts too.”

Not long after she was released on a second chance, the “remarkable” Rahman was right back out protesting, though assumedly not burning police cars.

Remember those absurd riots at Columbia University in New York? District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the man who led a politicized, weaponized prosecution of President Donald Trump, let nearly all the violent vandals off the hook without even a slap on the wrist.

If you are a leftwing activist and a member of one of the Left’s protected, oppressed groups being tried in a leftwing jurisdiction it appears you are very much in luck and have been for quite some time.

This will only further embolden ideologues on the Left to take their crack at violence with the hope—even expectation—that they can skirt serious consequences.

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