United States v. Roske, No. 8:22-cr-00209-DLB, District of Maryland. The indictment charged an attempt to assassinate a Justice of the United States, 18 U.S.C. § 351(c). The docket was filed June 15, 2022. Nicholas John Roske pleaded guilty in April 2025 without a plea agreement.
On October 3, 2025, in Greenbelt, Judge Boardman sentenced Roske to 97 months — eight years and one month — and a lifetime of supervised release. The Department of Justice public statement the same day said the Department had advocated for a sentence of at least 30 years to life. Attorney General Pamela Bondi called the sentence “woefully insufficient” and said the Department would appeal. Those are the Department’s words. They are not a Fourth Circuit holding.
H.Res. 818 later recites that sentence as its exhibit and quotes Boardman: “I take into consideration the conditions of pre-trial confinement and the fact that she is a transgender woman.” The resolution is a House filing. The docket is the docket. This post is the sentence. Do not treat the House paper as the judgment, and do not treat the judgment as a House vote.
Reporting on the hearing — NBC, CBS, Fox, AP — records that Boardman credited remorse and the 911 call, called the conduct reprehensible, and said political violence should never be normalized. Those are reporters’ accounts of a hearing. The judgment of conviction and the 97-month term are the facts on the criminal docket.