This was a relatively light sentence considering the circumstances.

The transgender who attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in 2022 has been sentenced.

Nicholas Roske who is a man who has since transitioned to a “woman” that goes by the name Sophie, was sentenced to eight years in prison after flying to California to Maryland in an attempt to assassinate Kavanaugh due his his pro-life position.

ABC News provided more details on the story:

The California resident who pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home in 2022 was sentenced Friday to just over eight years in prison, far below the three-decade term sought by federal prosecutors.

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Federal prosecutors had sought at least 30 years in prison for Sophie Roske, who arrived outside Kavanaugh’s home in June three years ago in possession of a Glock 17 pistol and an array of other tools that prosecutors said she intended to use to break in, restrain Kavanaugh, and ultimately kill him.

In explaining her decision to sentence Roske to 97 months and a lifetime of supervised release, U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman said she credited Roske for phoning authorities at the scene and reporting herself.

Boardman further expressed doubts in the government’s contention that Roske would have carried out the attempted assassination if she hadn’t seen the U.S. Marshals stationed outside Kavanaugh’s residence.

Roske pleaded guilty this past April and admitted in court papers that she traveled from California to Washington, D.C., after extensively researching the homes of four separate conservative Supreme Court Justices — with an intent to kill at least three.

Roske, whose lawyers disclosed in court papers in September that Roske was in the process of transitioning from male to female, took a cab directly from Dulles Airport to Kavanaugh’s house and immediately observed Kavanaugh’s U.S. Marshals protective detail, after which she began walking away from the residence.

The Daily Wire reported Roske could be out in less than four years:

The man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 in an attempt to change the court’s balance of power was sentenced by a Joe Biden-appointed judge on Friday to 97 months in prison, granting the defendant’s request for an eight-year sentence.

Judge Deborah Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee to Maryland federal court, acknowledged there was “a whopping 22-year difference” between that and the minimum of 30 years called for by federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had asked for sentencing guidelines to be followed.

Nicholas Roske traveled from California to Kavanaugh’s Maryland home armed with cache of weapons after a leaked document showed that the court planned to rule against liberals on abortion. Although he had meticulously planned the assassination for months, he had a change of heart outside the conservative justice’s home and called the police to turn himself in.

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He has been detained in the three years since, so with time served and good behavior, Roske’s sentence would mean he could be out four years after being sentenced on the charge of Attempt to Assassinate a U.S. Justice. The sentence also included lifetime court supervision.

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