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The man who allegedly tried to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh revealed what inspired him in the failed 2022 attempt.

Court documents filed last week show that Nicholas Roske admitted being “suicidal” as he planned his attempt to kill the justice, also telling law enforcement that the leaked draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case was what inspired him to execute his plan.

“Kavanaugh supported the opinion, which signaled the court would overturn Roe v. Wade. Roske added that a recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, had him worried Kavanaugh ‘would side with 2nd Amendment decisions that would loosen gun control laws,’ the affidavit states,” The Washington Post reported.

The Supreme Court’s “thinking about loosening gun restrictions” spurred on Roske’s intent.

“Another motivating factor was I heard that the current court was thinking about loosening gun restrictions and so, the one-two punch of Buffalo and then (indiscernible) and then hearing that this person that I was already upset with was planning on making it easier for people to do stuff like that,” he said.

The transcript was made public last week as Roske is still awaiting trial.

He faces one count of attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice in the case that is set for trial in June after a no plea agreement.

“His public defenders argue Roske was not read his constitutional rights before police questioned him outside the conservative justice’s home. When authorities interviewed him at the police station hours later, Roske hadn’t validly waived his rights, his attorneys said,” The Hill reported.

“My plan was to kill Mr. Kavanaugh and then myself,” Roske told a special agent after his arrest, as the transcript shows.

“I’ve been suicidal for a long time, and when I saw the leaked draft, it made me upset and then it made me want to — I don’t know. I was under the — I was under the delusion that I could make the world a better place by killing him,” he told law enforcement.

Roske’s motivation and the latest in the case, including the fact that no trial had yet commenced under President Joe BIden’s watch set off a wave of angry social media reactions.

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