Federal prosecutors on Friday said a man who pleaded guilty in a plot to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh should receive a prison sentence of 30 years to life.

Nicholas Roske, who was arrested after authorities said they found him near Kavanaugh’s Maryland residence in June 2022, has pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate a justice of the United States.

Roske, according to an affidavit, told a detective he was upset about the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, and the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Federal prosecutors, in a filing Friday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, said the court’s sentence must be significant “to send the message that the consequences for these acts — no fewer than 30 years to life in pri

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