Gorsuch Just Named Who Put Justice Kavanaugh in the Crosshairs During Bombshell Reagan Library Remarks

Someone flew from California to kill Brett Kavanaugh while Kagan refused to act on warnings it was coming.

Gorsuch just broke his silence on who left his colleague in that crosshairs.

What he revealed about the liberal justices who kept Kavanaugh there is something conservatives need to see.

The Kavanaugh Assassination Attempt the Dobbs Leak Made Possible

It was June 8, 2022. Nicholas Roske flew from California to Maryland with one purpose: to kill a conservative Supreme Court justice and change the outcome of a case.

Roske showed up at Kavanaugh's Chevy Chase home in the middle of the night loaded down with a Glock, a tactical knife, zip ties, duct tape, a hammer, a crowbar, and lock picks.

He had searched online how to cause maximum damage with a knife.

He had told people online he was going to "remove some people from the Supreme Court."

The only reason Brett Kavanaugh is alive today is that Roske saw marshals outside the home and lost his nerve.

This wasn't a protest. It wasn't a threat. It was a premeditated assassination attempt – and it was made possible by the Dobbs leak.

Kagan and Sotomayor Left Kavanaugh in the Crosshairs

Here's the part the media buried: the conservative justices begged their liberal colleagues to release the Dobbs decision quickly.

Justice Alito warned them directly – delay was a security threat, because an assassin could still change the outcome if a justice died before the ruling became official.

The liberal dissenters had one job: finish their dissent so the ruling could be released.

They refused.

Mollie Hemingway's new book Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution reveals that Kagan didn't just slow-walk the dissent – she screamed at Breyer so loudly when he considered complying that observers said "the wall was shaking."

The Dobbs majority had been ready since February.

The final ruling didn't come out until June 22 – two weeks after the assassination attempt.

For those two weeks, with a would-be killer already arrested and more threats building, the left-wing justices did nothing to reduce the danger to their colleagues.

Roske was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Not one liberal justice has faced a single consequence.

Gorsuch Breaks His Silence on Supreme Court Leaks and Threats to Judges

Justice Neil Gorsuch appeared at the Reagan Library this week and finally said out loud what conservatives have known for years.

"Violence is never the answer," Gorsuch told Fox News Digital.

He spoke about the direct line between the Dobbs leak and the threats that followed – and then he went further, addressing the newer pattern of internal Supreme Court documents being fed to left-wing media outlets.

The 2022 Dobbs draft. The 2024 New York Times piece exposing deliberations over Trump's presidential immunity case. The April 2026 leak of confidential internal memos to the Times.

Three breaches in four years – a pattern that has never happened before in American history.

"Do we need some confidentiality?" Gorsuch asked. "Of course."

He explained what the framers understood: that candid deliberation behind closed doors is how the court produces decisions wiser than anything a dictatorship or oligarchy ever could.

When that space gets destroyed by people willing to hand internal memos to the New York Times, justices stop speaking freely – and the court stops functioning as designed.

Three Supreme Court Leaks in Four Years and Nobody Has Been Charged

Legal scholar John Yoo at the American Enterprise Institute called it plainly: these leaks are a coordinated attack on the court, not whistleblowing.

The Dobbs leak didn't come from someone trying to protect democracy – it came from someone trying to use mob pressure to reverse a ruling that hadn't been issued yet.

The Trump immunity leaks didn't come from someone seeking transparency – they came from someone trying to delegitimize conservative justices and cast them as partisans.

Each leak has the same fingerprints: internal documents passed from someone inside the court to media outlets willing to weaponize them.

Chief Justice Roberts launched an investigation into the Dobbs leak and found nothing. No charges. No terminations. No consequences of any kind.

And so the leaks kept coming.

Gorsuch put it plainly: the framers locked the doors when they wrote the Constitution because they knew candid debate required privacy.

"Madison later believed there would have been no Constitution" without that protection, Gorsuch said.

The left is trying to destroy that same protection now – and last time they succeeded, a man showed up at a Supreme Court justice's home with a gun.

Sources:

• Breanne Deppisch, "Justice Neil Gorsuch breaks silence on violent threats against judiciary, Supreme Court leaks," Fox News, May 6, 2026.
• John Yoo, "The Left's War on the Supreme Court Just Hit a Terrifying New Low," American Enterprise Institute / Fox News Opinion, April 2026.
• Breccan F. Thies, "How Liberal Justices Used a Footnote to Drag Out Dobbs Release," The Federalist, April 23, 2026.
• Matt Kittle, "Explosive Report: As Dobbs Majority Faced Death Threats, Liberal Justices Slow-Walked Release," The Federalist, April 18, 2026.
• James Burnham, quoted in "Legal Experts Warn That Latest Supreme Court Leaks Are Enormously Destructive," Fox News, September 2024.
• Department of Justice, United States v. Nicholas John Roske, sentencing record.