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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., joined a chorus of Republicans arguing that a judge gave a lenient sentence to a man convicted of attempting to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

"You have to separate these people from society," Kennedy said Monday on " America's Newsroom," after Nicholas Roske received an eight-year sentence.

"That doesn't mean you don't try to rehabilitate them. But that's the only answer and that's why you find folks that have been repeated offenders again and again and again. What's going to change? Except if you let them out, they're going to hurt more people or take more people's stuff. Eight years? I was shocked."

BIDEN-APPOINTED JUDGE SLAMMED BY CONSERVATIVES FOR 'LENIENT' 8-YEAR SENTENC

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