Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh listens to remarks at Vice President JD Vance's residence on March 12, 2025. Leah Millis/Reuters Reuters —

US prosecutors on Friday asked a judge to sentence the person who attempted to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 to at least 30 years in prison.

The request from Justice Department lawyers, submitted in a court filing, came as the defendant’s lawyers indicated their client now uses female pronouns and goes by Sophie Roske, rather than her birth name of Nicholas Roske.

On June 7, 2022, Roske traveled from her home in the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley to Maryland to Kavanaugh’s residence. She called police after seeing US Marshals outside his house, telling the dispatcher she was suicidal and intended to kill

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