The disgraceful leniency shown to Brett Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin

Just weeks after a crazed killer fatally shot conservative Charlie Kirk, a liberal judge let off Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin with a sentence of a mere eight years, instead of the 30 years prosecutors sought.

Is there any wonder “assassination culture” is on the rise?

Good for Attorney General Pam Bondi for vowing to have the Justice Department appeal this outrageous, misguided leniency.

“The attempted assassination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was a disgusting attack against our entire judicial system by a profoundly disturbed individual,” Bondi tweeted.

“@TheJusticeDept will be appealing the woefully insufficient sentence.”

In issuing the sentence, Judge Deborah Boardman (who was appointed by President Joe Biden) apparently took pity on Nicholas Roske, who came from California with a pistol, ammunition, zip ties, pepper spray and burglary tools in a plot to kill the right-leaning justice at his Maryland home after the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade.

Roske later admitted he was targeting at least three justices in a bid to alter the court’s decisions “for decades to come,” per the feds.

True, Roske — who came out as a trans woman after being nabbed and now goes by the name “Sophie” — appears to have been suffering mental issues.

But Kirk’s killer and the two men who tried to assassinate President Donald Trump almost surely had psychological problems, too. That’s not unusual.

Meanwhile, Democrats can’t seem to halt their inflammatory rhetoric about those on the right, and disturbed individuals interpret that as a message that conservatives need to be targeted.

Showing these people leniency only encourages more violence.

“The sentence imposed in this case must send the powerful message” that the “ends never justify the means and that the consequences are not worth engaging in these acts,” prosecutors stressed.

Absolutely right.

It’s up to judges to make sure those consequences are serious enough.