Daily Broadside | Shocker: Man Tries to Kill Justice Kavanaugh Because He Was Upset Over the Leaked Draft Opinion on Roe v. Wade

Daily Verse | Job 42:2
“I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.”

Thursday’s Reading: Psalms 1-6

Happy Thursday and let’s jump right into the anarchy that the anti-American progressive Marxist true believers, including Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff, AOC, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger and other RINOs, have unleashed on our country.

The armed California man arrested near the Maryland home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh Wednesday morning has been identified as Nicholas John Roske, law enforcement sources tell Fox News.

Roske of Simi Valley, California, was carrying a gun, knife and pepper spray when arrested and had made violent threats against Kavanaugh, sources said. Roske was picked up on a nearby street after calling police on 911 to report himself.

A criminal complaint obtained by Fox News shows that Roske is being charged with attempting to murder a United States Supreme Court Justice. He is scheduled to have a first appearance in federal court in Maryland Wednesday afternoon.

He told officers that he wanted “to give his life purpose” and purchased the gun and other items for the purpose of breaking into Kavanaugh’s home and killing the justice and then himself. Roske admitted in a second interview with the FBI of his intent to kill Kavanaugh and himself, according to an affidavit in support of the criminal complaint.

Roske told detectives that “he was upset about the leak of a recent Supreme Court draft decision regarding the right to an abortion as well as the recent school shooting in Uvalde, Texas,” and believed Kavanaugh “would side with Second Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,” according to the affidavit.

The guy reported himself. What if he hadn’t?

The White House responded with a statement on behalf of the Resident.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement that Joe Biden “condemns the actions of this individual in the strongest terms” and that he’s “grateful to law enforcement” for quickly taking the suspect into custody.

“As the President has consistently made clear, public officials—including judges—must be able to do their jobs without concern for their personal safety or that of their families,” Bates said in the statement. “And any violence, threats of violence, or attempts to intimidate justices have no place in our society.”

Pfffft. I’m old enough to remember this attempt “to intimidate justices” over abortion:

And this attempt to intimidate members of Trump’s cabinet:

And this bit of wisdom from the Loser:

“You cannot be civil with a political party that wants to destroy what you stand for, what you care about,” Clinton declared in a recent CNN interview. When and if Democrats assume power in Congress, she said, “that’s when civility can start again.” Members of the American left agreed; those on the American right did not

The Democrats are the ones calling for violence. It’s the progressives who rant and rave, who agitate, who act violently, who have fire-bombed pro-life clinics. The violence is coming from the Left, not the Right.

I wonder if Roske was on Merrick Garland’s list of domestic terrorists?

After the leak of the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, the Senate introduced and passed the Supreme Court Police Parity Act, by unanimous consent. It’s now stalled in the Democrat-controlled House where they’re hoping one of the conservative justices will be assassinated so that they can quickly replace him or her with a trans-woman-of-color.

Following news of the arrest, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell urged Democrats to pass the Supreme Court security bill.

“House Democrats must pass this bill and they need to do it today. No more fiddling around with this, they need to pass it today … before the sun sets,” he said on the Senate floor.

Roske was arrested and was found with an arsenal on him.

A black tactical chest rig and tactical knife, Glock 17 pistol with two magazines and ammunition, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crowbar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, and other items were found in his suitcase and backpack.

He apparently was planning to murder Justice Kavanaugh, then kill himself. Instead, he was arrested and charged with attempted murder.

Chief Justice Roberts is partly culpable for this turn of events. Writes Josh Blackman:

Every day that goes by, and Dobbs remains undecided, is a day that the lives of the Justices and their families are at risk. Immediately after the leak, I wrote that the Court should issue a one-sentence per curiam opinion, with a reasoned decision to follow–follow the path of Ex Parte Quirin. Lurking in the back of mind was the risk that a Justice could be assassinated. Now, that risk looks so much more real …

… Why is there a delay? So Roberts can take yet another ill-fated attempt to pick off one or two votes? A real leader would have put aside his quixotical quest for balance. Every day that passes, as the Chief haggles over votes, a target remains on the backs of his colleagues.

The Dobbs 5 should immediately issue an unsigned per curiam order, with an opinion to follow, even over the Chief Justice’s objection. The Justices should send a clear and unequivocal message that they will not be intimidated by these acts of violence.

This is where the progressive Left has brought us: conspiracies, mob tactics, intimidation, and near-assassination attempts. That’s how they intend to get the outcomes they want. Not through the democratic process, but through force.

God help us.

Daily Broadside | Mad Maxine Fails Her Own Standards of Guilt

Daily Verse | 2 Kings 17:15
They followed worthless idols and themselves became worthless. They imitated the nations around them although the Lord had ordered them, “Do not do as they do,” and they did all the things the Lord had forbidden them to do.

It’s the second day of the third week of the fourth month of twenty-twenty-one. A recent study found that women who are a little heavier live longer than the men who mention it.

On January 6, you may remember, President Trump held a rally and said things like this:

Now it is up to Congress to confront this egregious assault on our democracy. And after this, we’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down—we’re going to walk down. Anyone you want, but I think right here, we’re going to walk down to the Capitol—And we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women and we’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them—I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. Today, we will see whether Republicans stand strong for integrity of our elections.

He claimed that the election was stolen and invited the crowd to walk down to the Capitol with him to make their voices heard “peacefully and patriotically” to the Senators who were confirming the electoral college votes. We all know what happened after that; the Capitol was breached and President Trump was later impeached for “incitement of insurrection.”

The charge was ridiculous and the Senate acquitted him.

One of those who voted to impeach Donald J. Trump a second time was Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). In fact, she boasted on her official government website that she drafted four articles of impeachment “in response to the tragedy of January 6, 2021.” Mad Max was deeply troubled that “Donald Trump provided white supremacists, right-wing extremists, and conspiracy theorists validation and free reign to spew hatred, bigotry, and racism, and yes – commit extreme violence.”

How ironic, then, that this past weekend she showed up in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, flapping her yapper in support of demonstrators protesting the police killing of Daunte Wright on April 11. But she also made some comments that did more than imply violence, unlike the comments of President Donald J. Trump.

Speaking of the Derek Chauvin trial, here’s some of what she said.

  • I’m going to fight with all of the people who stand for justice. We’ve got to get justice in this country and we cannot allow these killings to continue.
  • I know this, we’ve got to stay in the streets. We are looking for a guilty verdict.
  • If nothing does not happen then we have to not only stay in the streets but we have to fight for justice. I am very hopeful and I hope that we are going to get a verdict that is guilty, guilty, guilty and if we don’t, we cannot go away.
  • Oh, not manslaughter. Oh, no, this is guilty of murder! I don’t know if it’s in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned it’s first-degree murder!
  • We’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make sure that they know that we mean business.

Here’s an elected official of our national government demanding a certain outcome and threatening “more” confrontation. The outcome she demands is, guilty of first-degree murder, which is impossible because Chauvin is not charged with first-degree murder. But Mad Max isn’t interested in facts; “I don’t know if it’s in the first degree, but as far as I’m concerned it’s first-degree murder!”

Having set the expectation for the jury to do the impossible, she then threatens the city with continued riots. Remember, Minneapolis is where Burn Loot Murder began and there’s been rioting, looting, murder and arson. How could it possibly get “more confrontational”?

This isn’t the first time that Waters has called for confrontation with the people she dislikes. In 2018 she told a group of her supporters to harass Trump administration officials.

Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.

By her own standards, Mad Max fails the incitement test. The editorial board of the New York Post is demanding that she be removed from office:

Maxine Waters is trying to create a civil war, and her irresponsible rhetoric is inciting violence. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should strip her of her committee assignments and move for a vote to remove Waters from office.

Of course, Nancy Pelosi has declined to censure, impeach or otherwise punish Waters, who, to borrow her words, has “provided Blacks, left-wing extremists, and members of Antifa validation and free reign to commit extreme violence.”

The lack of consequences is simply another example of the Left’s double standards. One set of rules for conservatives, another set for progressives.

If the Left didn’t have double standards, they’d have none at all.