WASHINGTON—Congressman Chip Roy on Monday filed articles of impeachment against U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman, who sentenced Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s attempted assassin to only eight years in prison — significantly lower than what federal sentencing guidelines and prosecutors called for.
Nicholas Roske, a 29-year-old trans-identifying man who now goes by Sophie, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-man-who-planned-to-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-gets-off-easy-will-serve-just-8-years">sentenced</a> October 3 for attempting to kill the Supreme Court justice in 2022.
In an exclusive statement to The Daily Wire, Roy said Boardman &#8220;deserves to be impeached for her absurd eight-year-sentence.&#8221;
&#8220;Our nation’s judicial system is structured to administer proper and equal treatment under the law; it is not a system where a member of the Judiciary is to allow their personal feelings or political ideology to influence their decision-making — oftentimes resulting in more criminals on the street,&#8221; the Texas Republican said.
Roske faced up to life in prison under federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors asked for 30 years.
Roy noted the assassin &#8220;went to great lengths to methodically plan for the attack by spending months researching the private residence of a sitting Supreme Court Justice and obtaining countless weapons and other instruments to fulfill his plot to kill.&#8221;
Roske meticulously planned the assassination for months but had a change of heart outside the conservative justice’s home and called the police to turn himself in.
Roy, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said the judge &#8220;unequivocally based this weak sentence on the attempted assassin&#8217;s &#8216;gender identity,&#8217; as the attempted assassin expressed that he views himself as a woman.&#8221;
&#8220;Instead of doing what the Judiciary calls for and sentencing this man to the base 30-year sentence recommended by the Department of Justice, Judge Boardman purposefully allowed this man off easy,&#8221; Roy said.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-man-who-planned-to-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-gets-off-easy-will-serve-just-8-years">previously</a> reported Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee to Maryland federal court, acknowledged there was “a whopping 22-year difference” between that and the minimum of 30 years called for by federal sentencing guidelines.
In a seven-hour sentencing hearing, Boardman focused heavily on Roske&#8217;s gender identity. “Let’s talk about the fact that Ms. Roske is a transgender woman … Should I take into consideration at all that Ms. Roske is transgender?” she asked prosecutors.
“That should not be taken into account or play a large role in the court’s sentencing,&#8221; prosecutor Coreen Mao replied.
Boardman said that because President Donald Trump had issued an executive order aimed at transgender prisoners, she would hand down a lighter sentence — even though parts of that executive order are not currently in place due to an injunction imposed by a different judge.
“She will be imprisoned at a male facility even though she is a transgender prisoner, pursuant to an executive order from the president. Prior to the executive order, that wasn’t the case. With the injunction in place, Ms. Roske could receive gender-affirming care, but if that injunction goes away, she could be denied it. So when I sentence her, I take into account that she is a transgender woman who will be sent to a male facility,” Boardman said.
Boardman also implied that a lack of acceptance of transgender people, including by Roske&#8217;s family, may have been partly to blame for the crime. Roske&#8217;s sister Olivia told the judge that years prior, Olivia had come out as gay to her family shortly after being discharged from a mental institution. Boardman said that Nicholas &#8220;saw that their parents struggled to reconcile her sexuality with their religious beliefs,&#8221; and that Roske&#8217;s mother &#8220;had not been open to her daughter’s gender identity.&#8221;
In court, Roske&#8217;s mother, Colleen, told the judge that she had reformed her ways.
&#8220;I have attended PFLAG [Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays] meetings and learned more about the LGBTQ+ community. I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie,&#8221; she said tearfully.
Judge Boardman said she was &#8220;heartened&#8221; that the attempted assassination had led to increased acceptance of Roske&#8217;s transgenderism.
“After her daughter’s arrest, Colleen discovered that her daughter was transgender. When she was cleaning out her room, she found hospital discharge paperwork that described her as Sophie. I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family get the help she needs and accept their daughter for who she is,” she said.
Boardman acknowledged that Roske&#8217;s plot to kill Kavanaugh was explicitly so “he would be replaced by someone Biden picks so they wouldn’t repeal gay rights or abortion.” Roske&#8217;s defense attorneys acknowledged that the &#8220;terrorism enhancement&#8221; should apply, but Boardman chose to waive some of the increased penalty that it triggers, saying “Any prison time in punishment for her. The length doesn’t need to be particularly long to punish her, and the length isn’t the only factor — unduly harsh conditions make a difference too.”
In Reddit posts, Roske described himself as a transgender woman who is attracted to women, not men; he appeared entirely male in court.
Following the sentencing, Attorney General Pam Bondi said <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1974254662971756551">on X</a> that the Justice Department would appeal the “woefully insufficient sentence.”
Roy believes the judge violated her oath of office by not administering her sentencing &#8220;impartially&#8221; and by &#8220;not upholding the &#8216;good behavior&#8217; that Judges must abide by.&#8221;
&#8220;Judge Boardman should be impeached swiftly and without reservation,&#8221; Roy added.
Republican Senators Ted Cruz (Texas) and Mike Lee (Utah) have called for Boardman&#8217;s impeachment. Shortly after the sentence, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) introduced a bill that would &#8220;Prevent judges from using perceived gender-identity as a factor when determining the length of a sentence,&#8221; and another that would prohibit housing transgender inmates with members of the opposite biological sex.

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The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in the ongoing legal battle over the deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago.
“This case presents what has become a disturbing and recurring pattern. Federal officers are attempting to enforce federal immigration law in an urban area containing significant numbers of illegal aliens,&#8221; Solicitor General John Sauer <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/934568050/25A443">wrote</a>. &#8220;The federal agents efforts are met with prolonged, coordinated, violent resistance that threatens their lives and safety and systematically interferes with their ability to enforce federal law.&#8221;
Judge April Perry of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois initially <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5560445-trump-national-guard-chicago-illinois/">blocked</a> the deployment of the National Guard to Chicago. Her ruling was upheld by a three-judge federal appeals court on Thursday. The judges claimed there was “insufficient evidence of rebellion or a danger of a rebellion” and that with “regular forces,” the president could still maintain the law.
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Sauer argues that the resistance forces federal agents to “scramble to protect themselves and federal property” in the face of “violent, hostile mobs.” Thus, presidential authority is warranted.
“Federal officers in Chicago have been threatened and assaulted, attacked in a harrowing pre-planned ambush involving many assailants, rammed in their government vehicles, shot at with fireworks and other improvised weapons, injured and hospitalized, and threatened in person and online, including by a $10,000 bounty for the murder of a senior federal official,” he wrote.
“This court should stay the district court&#8217;s October 9 injunction in its entirety, the injunction improperly impinges on the President&#8217;s authority and needlessly endangers federal personnel and property.”
The Supreme Court has <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5561225-national-guard-deployment-chicago/">told</a> state and city officials to respond to the Trump administration’s arguments by Monday night.

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In 10 years, The Daily Wire has put up some incredible wins, and over the next few weeks, we’re looking back at 10 of our greatest victories — none of which could have happened without the support of our loyal members and fans. 
One of our biggest victories occurred over the summer as the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling upholding a Tennessee law protecting children from surgical and chemical gender mutilation. The ruling allowed states across the country to keep in place laws protecting children from life-altering transgender procedures. 
The Tennessee law at the center of ruling was inspired by an investigation from Daily Wire host Matt Walsh. In September 2022, Walsh released an investigation revealing that the pediatric transgender clinic at Vanderbilt University Medical Center was removing the breasts of girls who identified as boys and prescribing cross-sex hormones to gender-confused children.
“My team and I have been investigating the transgender clinic at Vanderbilt here in Nashville. Vanderbilt drugs, chemically castrates, and performs double mastectomies on minors,” Walsh <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1572313369528635392">reported</a> at the time. “They now castrate, sterilize, and mutilate minors as well as adults, while apparently taking steps to hide this activity from the public view. This is what ‘health care’ has become in modern America.”
In the days following the investigation, Walsh met with top Tennessee lawmakers who vowed to introduce legislation to ban transgender procedures on kids and Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tennessee-looking-at-child-gender-transition-legislation-after-vanderbilt-transgender-videos-released">called</a> for an immediate end to the procedures. 
A month after the investigation broke, Walsh led a rally in Nashville attended by top Tennessee Republicans like Senator Marsha Blackburn and others like Tulsi Gabbard calling for an end to child mutilation. 
Walsh later testified before state lawmakers in favor of the Republican-backed bill to ban transgender procedures on kids in Tennessee. 
“We should be able to agree that it is never OK to chemically castrate, sterilize, butcher, or mutilate a child. And in fact, all decent people do agree on this point,” Walsh said during his testimony. “But many of the people who hold power in this country and who run our institutions — including our medical institutions — do not pass this basic test of decency.” 
After Tennessee’s law was passed in March 2023, over a dozen other states moved to enact similar legislation to protect kids. Tennessee’s law was challenged by leftist activists and the Biden administration, bouncing through the federal court system before the Supreme Court agreed to take it up. Walsh also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1498-on-demand">spoke</a> at a rally in front of the Supreme Court in December 2024, continuing to push for an end to transgender procedures on children. 
In June 2025, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in United States v. Skrmetti that states were allowed to protect kids from transgender procedures under the Constitution. 
Walsh said that the decision was a “fatal blow” to transgender ideology. 
“Three years ago, we launched our investigation into Vanderbilt’s child mutilation practices,” he <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1935345883769430153">said</a>. “We rallied in the state capital. Our lawmakers responded with a law banning child mutilation in the state. Today the Supreme Court upheld our law, which means child mutilation can be banned anywhere and everywhere in the country. And should be. This is a truly historic victory and I’m grateful to be a part of it, along with so many others who have fought relentlessly for years.”

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WASHINGTON—The man who was apprehended with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-with-200-explosives-and-leftist-manifesto-arrested-outside-supreme-court-event-at-church-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">more than 100 explosive devices</a> outside a Washington, D.C., church holding a service historically attended by Supreme Court justices had previously written statements that specifically referenced the service.
The “Red Mass” is an annual event held each year by the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle, wherein the parish prays for the High Court at the beginning of a new term.
Louis Geri appeared in D.C. Superior Court for a preliminary hearing Thursday after he was arrested Sunday outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle during the &#8220;Red Mass”, an annual service herein the parish prays for the High Court at the beginning of a new term. Last year&#8217;s Red Mass was attended by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, along with 1,000 others.
Geri allegedly handed police a nine-page manifesto detailing grievances against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-with-200-explosives-and-leftist-manifesto-arrested-outside-supreme-court-event-at-church-police" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Supreme Court, ICE, Catholics, and Jews</a>.
A woman who appeared to have some sort of relationship with Geri watched the proceedings from the gallery. Geri nodded his head in her direction upon entering the courtroom and, upon his exit, she spoke with his attorney about returning for subsequent proceedings later this month.
When weighing the evidence presented today, Judge Heide Herrmann considered footage showing Geri setting up a green tent on the steps of the church the night before the Mass.
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In response to defense counsel&#8217;s argument that Geri’s actions were limited to simple possession of explosives, Judge Herrmann referenced the previous night’s footage, stating, “This shows a plan, beyond mere possession.”
Judge Herrmann also noted Geri’s written statements referenced wanting to take down targets such as the White House and Washington Monument.
The FBI’s preliminary testing has confirmed Geri’s weapons fit their definition of destructive devices.
Geri described his explosives to officers “as rockets capable of taking out helicopters” and consisting of “nitromethane among other explosive chemicals.” He further described them as “a proprietary formula.”
Geri allegedly gathered materials for his explosives in Arkansas before driving up to D.C.
“It appears that was part of the idea — to endanger that number of people at a high-visibility event,&#8221; Judge Herrmann said. Referring to Geri’s continued confinement, she added, “There are no conditions which I could set that would reasonably guarantee the safety of the community.”
Due to security concerns, the sitting Supreme Court justices did not attend this year’s “Red Mass.”
Sunday’s threat is the latest example of the disturbing upward trend in political violence.
In 2022, Nicholas Roske attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Just last Friday, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-man-who-planned-to-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-gets-off-easy-will-serve-just-8-years" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Roske was sentenced</a> to eight years in prison. Federal guidelines call for a 30-year minimum. Judge Deborah Boardman, appointed by Joe Biden to the Maryland federal court, noticed the “whopping 22-year difference.”
Luke Rosiak contributed to this report.

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Across America, an alarming trend is unfolding: state governments are criminalizing conversations between therapists and children.
In Colorado, <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb25-1312" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Bill 25-1312</a> makes it illegal for licensed professionals to provide “talk therapy” to help minors explore or reconcile their feelings about gender unless the therapist immediately affirms a self-declared identity. The constitutionality of this law was argued this week in front of the Supreme Court in Chiles v. Salazar, a case poised to decide whether counseling services for minors battling gender confusion are protected by the First Amendment.
Supporters claim this protects vulnerable youth. In reality, it silences them — and their therapists.
Colorado argues that, because counseling occurs within a licensed profession, it can control the content of the discussion. But the Supreme Court rejected that logic in NIFLA v. Becerra, affirming that the government cannot sidestep the First Amendment by labeling speech as “professional conduct.”
Free speech does not end at the therapy room door.
As someone who has spent decades working with traumatized children  — including those in foster care and victims of violence — I know that healing begins with open dialogue, not censorship. The ability to talk freely about one’s experiences, fears, and confusion is the cornerstone of mental health treatment. When the government dictates what can and cannot be said, it is not protecting children — it is silencing them at the moment they most need to be heard.
The American Psychological Association (APA) and allied organizations claim a “scientific consensus” supports these bans. Yet the APA’s own review concedes there are no scientifically rigorous studies proving that talk therapy for minors is harmful or ineffective. Despite this absence of evidence, the APA labels such therapy dangerous and demands conformity nationwide. That is ideology, not science.
Developmental science tells a very different story. Children and adolescents are still growing — not just physically but neurologically. The prefrontal cortex, responsible for impulse control, judgment, and long-term decision-making, continues developing into the mid-twenties. This means young people lack the biological maturity to grasp the lifelong consequences of irreversible medical interventions.
Yet many states are fast-tracking children toward puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgeries — procedures that can result in sterilization, chronic health problems, and deep psychological pain. Meanwhile, these same children are told they cannot even discuss their feelings with a licensed therapist who might help them slow down, ask questions, and address underlying issues such as trauma, anxiety, or family instability.
In every other area of mental health, patience, exploration, and informed consent are considered best practices. But when it comes to gender, ideology has replaced inquiry. The same professional groups that insist minors cannot consent to therapy now insist they can consent to sterilizing medical interventions. This contradiction exposes the political nature of the movement driving these bans — it is not grounded in scientific rigor or clinical ethics.
The First Amendment exists precisely to protect speech that challenges prevailing orthodoxy. It protects journalists, teachers, pastors, and, yes, therapists. The right to speak and seek understanding through conversation is fundamental to both liberty and healing.
When states like Colorado criminalize talk therapy, they don’t just violate constitutional rights — they betray vulnerable children. Young people facing profound questions about identity deserve compassion, time, and the freedom to explore all aspects of their experience without government interference.
The Supreme Court should once again affirm what our Constitution already makes clear: speech is speech. Children deserve care rooted in truth and freedom, not ideology and coercion. When we silence therapists, we silence hope.
Dr. Jennifer Bauwens serves as Director of the Center for American Values at the America First Policy Institute. 
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Washington, D.C., police on Sunday arrested a man with hundreds of explosive devices outside a church holding a Mass in honor of the Supreme Court. The man had a manifesto that suggested he was targeting the Supreme Court and Catholics, according to court papers obtained by The Daily Wire.
Louis Geri, a 41-year-old from Arizona and New Jersey, was apprehended outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle on October 5, the same day the church held its annual &#8220;Red Mass&#8221; in which a cardinal prays for the high court as it embarks on a new term, and which is historically attended by justices.
Geri was occupying a green tent on the steps of the church when police attempted to clear the area in preparation for the Supreme Court event. He told police, &#8220;You might want to stay back and call the federales, I have explosives,&#8221; according to an affidavit.
A member of the Metropolitan Police Department&#8217;s Bomb Squad then told him he needed to move because of a special event. He replied, &#8220;I&#8217;m aware of that (referring to the Red Mass),&#8221; police wrote, and threatened to throw a bomb into the street as a demonstration, adding, &#8220;I have a hundred plus of them.&#8221;
Police said they would remove him against his will, and he replied, &#8220;Several of your people are gonna die from one of these.&#8221; With a lighter in one hand, he handed them nine pieces of paper that amounted to a manifesto entitled, &#8220;Written Negotiations for the Avoidance of Destruction of Property via Detonation of Explosives.&#8221;
The manifesto &#8220;revealed his significant animosity towards the Catholic church, members of the Jewish faith, members of SCOTUS and ICE/ ICE facilities,&#8221; police wrote, indicating that the incident may be the latest in a string of left-wing domestic terrorism.
Geri &#8220;then shifted his right thumb over top of the butane lighter to initiate the lighting action and stated, &#8216;You better have these people step away or there&#8217;s going to be deaths.'&#8221;
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Geri then left the tent to urinate on a tree and was apprehended by three officers, at which point he said he had a device in his pocket. A bomb squad technician located in his pocket &#8220;a vial with a white cap, which contained yellow liquid inside, with an M-device taped to the exterior.&#8221;
After he was arrested, the bomb squad located &#8220;a large cache of handmade destructive devices&#8221; in the tent, police said. He was charged with: Unlawful Entry, Manufacture, Transfer, Use, Possession or Transportation of Molotov Cocktails, or other Explosives for Unlawful purposes, Threats to Kidnap or Injure a person, Assault on Police Officer x 2, Possession of Destructive Device, Manufacture or Possession of Weapon of Mass Destruction (Hate Crime) and Resisting Arrest.
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On Monday, after reviewing the bombs more carefully, police filed an affidavit from a bomb technician saying &#8220;there were over 200 devices recovered from D-1&#8217;s tent. There was a strong smell of acetone emitting from some of the vials. Some of the liquid was determined to be Nitro Methane. The liquid appeared to be multiple chemicals mixed together, none in original containers &#8230; the devices appeared to be fully functional.&#8221;
Police said that in a jailhouse interview, Geri &#8220;described his devices as grenades and explosives containing Nitro Methane with a rubber band securing a fuse to be used for detonation. [He] also stated he planned to use the modified bottle rockets with the aluminum foil heads attached and treated in a Thermite solution to allow for his detonation of the devices from a distance.&#8221;
He is being held in jail without bond.
No justices attended the mass this year because of security concerns, according to the <a href="https://www.ncronline.org/news/supreme-court-justices-do-not-attend-annual-red-mass-due-security-concerns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Catholic Reporter</a> – concerns which appear to have been justified. Last year, three justices, all conservative, attended: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. In 2018, leftists were photographed protesting the mass with signs that said &#8220;Stop Kavanaugh,&#8221; and referring to the false smear peddled by Democrat senators that Kavanaugh was a gang-rapist.
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The potential assassination of a large number of justices came just two days after a Joe Biden-appointed judge issued a lenient sentence to Nicholas Roske, who attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022. In that case, Judge Deborah Boardman departed from sentencing guidelines by 22 years, sentencing Roske to just <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/transgender-man-who-planned-to-assassinate-brett-kavanaugh-gets-off-easy-will-serve-just-8-years">eight years</a> instead of the 30 years-to-life called for by sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had warned that a stiffer sentence was needed to deter others from attempting to assassinate justices, and this new incident could add to calls from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to impeach Judge Boardman.
According to public records reviewed by The Daily Wire, Geri was from Vineland, New Jersey, but had been living in a motel in Mesa, Arizona, for the last several years. In 2021, an Arizona jury found him guilty of indecent exposure. He was admitted to state prison in August 2022 and released in May 2023, according to the Arizona Department of Corrections.
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Today, the Supreme Court will hear <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/chiles-v-salazar/">Chiles v. Salazar</a>, a case about censorship in private counseling conversations regarding gender identity not sanctioned by Colorado state law. The results will have a lasting influence not only counselors, parents, and children in Colorado, but throughout the United States.
I know, because our family learned the hard way when our 11-year-old daughter went to her school counselors in Wisconsin for advice. 
So many times, just being able to talk about things with someone who knows how to listen can make a life-changing difference. What our family learned, however, was that these people did not know how to listen. They were interested in making a life-changing difference, yes, but mostly in changing my daughter’s life to suit their social sensibilities, not to do what was best for her.
COVID hit at just about the same time my daughter entered into a very real personal crisis. She was 11 years old and decided she hated herself. She hated her looks, hated her personality — everything. The isolation of the epidemic left her with too much time to think about all of that and too few people to talk to about what she was feeling.
Sometimes, as a kid, it can help to know that other kids around the same age are struggling with the same issues. But our daughter was mostly alone with all her growing worries, fears, and frustrations. She didn’t know how to talk to me about what she was feeling, and she started reading about kids who were &#8220;changing&#8221; themselves. That sounded like the answer to everything: changing herself.
Looking back, she says, she doesn’t think she was really feeling that much gender dysphoria. She wasn’t especially wanting to be a boy — she just didn’t want to be herself.
That turned out to be very easy to arrange. In fact, a teacher’s aide approached my daughter and said that, if she wanted to give the people in the front office a new name and new pronouns, they’d happily take care of the paperwork.
They might have suggested that she first talk a little more with her parents about what she was feeling and give us a chance to listen and help her work through these things. But no one — not the school officials, not the doctors she eventually talked to — ever suggested anything like that.
To them, what we as her parents thought and felt was irrelevant. Our love for our child and our authority to influence her life choices didn’t matter at all. All of these strangers just assumed they knew best and had the right to keep her parents out of the conversation.
For that matter, they didn’t include our daughter much, either.
At no time did anyone at school or in the medical facilities our daughter visited ever suggest that there might be a healthy alternative to her social transitioning. They never suggested that she might just be struggling with the kinds of things lots of boys and girls have trouble with — dealing with the pains and awkward changes of puberty and the problems of fitting into a sometimes-crazy teenage culture.
That’s why my husband and I <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/tf-and-bf-v-kettle-moraine-school-district/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped">sued</a> our Wisconsin school district with the help of our attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom. As parents, we have had to really fight for what should be a given — our basic legal right to be involved in our child’s life. And — with our love and support — she had to find her own way out of the confusing jungle of emotions she was dealing with.
We’re glad she was able to do that, but we still wonder how much easier it might have been if someone with the right skills had just been there to help her find the trail — and if her school officials hadn’t tried so hard to block her from finding it.
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That’s also why we’re so interested in another ADF client, Kaley Chiles, and <a href="https://adflegal.org/case/chiles-v-salazar/?utm_source=dailywire&amp;utm_medium=oped">her case</a> being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court today. Ms. Chiles is a counselor who wants to offer help to young people like our daughter, who are going through the kinds of things she’s been going through.
We’ve read a lot about her. She does what it seems like a counselor ought to do. She listens. She asks thoughtful questions. She helps young people figure out where they want to go and how to get there. She’s there to walk with them — not push them through a pre-chosen door or force her own ideas on their disturbed minds and hurting hearts.
To me, that’s what every young person going through what my daughter went through needs. But in Ms. Chiles’ home state of Colorado, it’s actually against the law for a counselor to help a minor that way.
My own state has a similar law. And these laws allow counselors to point the way to transitioning and encourage it, but they can’t offer an alternative or do anything to support a young person who leans toward another conclusion.
That reminds me so much of what my daughter has experienced these last few years. People — professionals — with no interest in helping her, just in changing her.
Ms. Chiles’ attorneys will be making good arguments for why that’s a terrible approach … one that can be life-changing for children and teens in all the wrong ways.
I just hope the justices know how to listen.
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Tammy Fournier and her daughter reside in Wisconsin.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
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When My 11-Year-Old Daughter Began Hating Herself, The School Told Her To Change Her Pronouns

Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF)

Gender Identity

LGBTQ

Parents rights

Pronouns

Schools

The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a case centered on a counselor in Colorado who could be punished under state law for helping gender-confused children become comfortable with their own body instead of pursuing irreversible transgender medical procedures.
The case pits the State of Colorado against counselor Kaley Chiles, who is challenging a Colorado law that <a href="https://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/files/2019a_1129_signed.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prohibits</a> counseling that “attempts or purports to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.” Chiles said that the law violates her First Amendment rights and has prevented her from taking several clients.
“When my young clients come to me for counsel, they often want to discuss issues of gender and sexuality. Yet my home state only allows my clients to pursue state-approved goals like gender transition,” she said. “Colorado’s law harms kids and censors speech. I’m hopeful the Supreme Court will do the right thing — for me, other counselors, and most importantly, kids everywhere.”
Chiles is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), which argues that Colorado’s law, passed in 2019, is a direct attack on professional speech.
“This case is about censorship. The state of Colorado is censoring counselor speech on the issue of gender ideology,” Alliance Defending Freedom lawyer Kate Anderson said on a press call attended by The Daily Wire. “Colorado is saying that if a counselor is going to speak with a minor, have a private, voluntary counseling session with a minor, and that minor is dealing with any kind of gender ideology, confusion, then that counselor has to encourage transition.”
“They can&#8217;t have conversations with that minor to help them become comfortable in their own body and align their feelings with their biology, even if that&#8217;s what that minor wants,” Anderson added.
She pointed to the 2018 Supreme Court ruling where the court sided with the National Institute of Family and Life Advocates, which had challenged a California law that mandated that crisis pregnancy centers provide information on how to obtain abortions.
Anderson said she expected this past ruling to come up during oral arguments, as well as the science demonstrating the lack of scientific support for transgender procedures.
Colorado’s law was previously upheld by the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, while the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down similar laws implemented by cities in Florida. The Supreme Court has been skeptical of transgender ideology in recent years and has allowed states to ban transgender procedures on minors.

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Supreme Court Takes Up Challenge To Colorado Law That Pushes Kids Into Transgender Procedures

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The Supreme Court on Monday <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/100625zor_5368.pdf">rejected</a> Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal of her criminal conviction for her part in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of underage girls.
Maxwell is serving a 20-year prison <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ghislaine-maxwell-sentenced-20-years-prison-conspiring-jeffrey-epstein-sexually-abuse">sentence</a> after being convicted on three counts, including sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking of a minor. Despite the setback at the Supreme Court, Maxwell’s lawyer, David Oscar Markus, said that “this fight isn’t over,” NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-epstein-associate-ghislaine-maxwells-appeal-crim-rcna233281">reported</a>.
In his appeal to the Supreme Court, Markus contended that Jeffrey Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement with the Southern District of Florida — which shielded him and his potential co-conspirators from federal charges — should also apply to one of Ghislaine Maxwell’s three counts prosecuted in New York. The Justice Department urged the Supreme Court to reject the appeal. The Justice Department noted that Alex Acosta, then the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Florida, would have needed authorization from his superiors for Epstein’s non-prosecution agreement to apply beyond that district. However, there is no evidence that such permission was obtained.
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Solicitor General D. John Sauer said that Maxwell’s argument was “incorrect,” adding that she failed to “show that it would succeed in any court of appeals,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/us/politics/supreme-court-ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-appeal.html#:~:text=In%20a%20response%20to%20Ms,in%20any%20court%20of%20appeals.%E2%80%9D">reported</a>.
Maxwell has been seeking any way to have her prison sentence shortened, including an appeal to President Donald Trump, since her sentencing in June 2022.
Just days after Maxwell petitioned the Supreme Court, she agreed to be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ghislaine-maxwell-reveals-whether-she-believes-epstein-committed-suicide">interviewed</a> by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who asked the convicted sex trafficker numerous questions about Epstein and his associates. The interview was conducted in July, as the Trump administration continued to face backlash over its handling of the Epstein case. Blanche is a former personal attorney of President Trump.
During her interview with Blanche, Maxwell stated that she had never seen any high-profile Epstein associates, including President Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton, engage in anything “inappropriate.”
“I actually never saw the president in any type of massage setting. I never witnessed the president in any inappropriate setting in any way,” she said of Trump. “The president was never inappropriate with anybody. In the times that I was with him, he was a gentleman in all respects.”
Along with the appeal to the Supreme Court, Maxwell’s lawyer also <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/28/trump-ghislaine-maxwell-pardon-jeffrey-epstein-00479862">said</a> that they were asking “the President himself to recognize how profoundly unjust it is to scapegoat Ghislaine Maxwell for Epstein’s crimes.” Trump told reporters in late July that “nobody&#8217;s approached me” about a pardon for Maxwell.
“Well, I’m allowed to give her a pardon but nobody&#8217;s approached me with it, nobody&#8217;s asked me about it,” said Trump, adding, “I&#8217;m allowed to do it, but it&#8217;s something I have not thought about.”
One week after sitting down for the interview with the DOJ, Maxwell was moved from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison in Texas.

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SCOTUS Slams Door On Ghislaine Maxwell Appeal

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GREENBELT, Md.—The man who planned to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh in 2022 in an attempt to change the court’s balance of power was sentenced by a Joe Biden-appointed judge on Friday to 97 months in prison, granting the defendant&#8217;s request for an eight-year sentence.
Judge Deborah Boardman, a Joe Biden appointee to Maryland federal court, acknowledged there was &#8220;a whopping 22-year difference&#8221; between that and the minimum of 30 years called for by federal sentencing guidelines. Prosecutors had asked for sentencing guidelines to be followed.
The Department of Justice plans to appeal the sentence, The Daily Wire has learned.
Nicholas Roske traveled from California to Kavanaugh’s Maryland home armed with cache of weapons after a leaked document showed that the court planned to rule against liberals on abortion. Although he had meticulously planned the assassination for months, he had a change of heart outside the conservative justice’s home and called the police to turn himself in.
He has been detained in the three years since, so with time served and good behavior, Roske&#8217;s sentence would mean he could be out four years after being sentenced on the charge of Attempt to Assassinate a U.S. Justice. The sentence also included lifetime court supervision.
Boardman said &#8220;Under the law I must consider the sentencing guidelines. The guidelines in this case are 360 months to life. It&#8217;s important to understand the Supreme Court stance on guidelines&#8230; They used to be mandatory, but in [a case called] Booker the Supreme Court held that they were advisory.&#8221;
The judge acknowledged that &#8220;this crime did involve domestic terrorism,&#8221; but undid most of the &#8220;terrorism enhancement&#8221; created by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to increase recommended punishments in terrorism cases.
&#8220;I have not seen evidence that the Sentencing Commission relied on evidence that it would reduce recidivism,&#8221; she said. She said recent research in the Georgetown Law Journal said terrorists are not uniquely incapable of being rehabilitated.
The sentencing took more than seven hours, with much of the time dedicated to discussing how Roske&#8217;s transgender identity meant he should get a lighter sentence.
In a more than hour-long speech justifying the light sentence, Boardman said &#8220;Ms. Roske came out to herself as transgender in 2020 but kept it secret. Ms. Roske&#8217;s sister came out as gay two years prior but Ms. Roske saw that their parents struggled to reconcile her sexuality with their religious beliefs.&#8221;
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<h1>“I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family… accept their daughter for who she is,” Judge Boardman said.</h1>
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“I am heartened that this terrible infraction has helped the Roske family… accept their daughter for who she is,” Judge Boardman said.
His mother Colleen told the judge on Friday that “I have attended PFLAG meetings and learned about the LGBTQ+ community. I am committed to going on this journey with Sophie&#8230; She was frustrated with what was going on in the world, and we weren&#8217;t a safe place to process it.&#8221; As his mother wept, Nicholas Roske also choked up, his Adam&#8217;s apple bobbing up and down.
Boardman said &#8220;Any prison time is punishment for her. The length doesn&#8217;t need to be particularly long&#8230; unduly harsh conditions make a difference, too.&#8221; The judge continued, &#8220;She will be imprisoned in a male facility even though she is a transgender prisoner, pursuant to an executive order from the president. Before the executive order, that wasn&#8217;t the case.&#8221;
Roske and his mother, father, and sister all spoke in court, emotionally describing how hard it has been on the family. Kavanaugh&#8217;s relatives did not address the court, but left the courtroom abruptly after the judge issued the light sentence.
Earlier in the hearing, Boardman lashed out at prosecutors and President Donald Trump, saying &#8220;Let&#8217;s not hide the fact that President Trump issued an executive order saying transgender inmates would be assigned to prisons with their biological sex.&#8221; The prosecutor replied that there was an injunction holding up much of the enforcement of that executive order, and the judge later state that Roske could, in fact, get hormone replacement in prison, at least while the injunction was in effect.
In court, Roske appeared as a tall man with a deep voice. His online posts show that even as a transgender, he is attracted to women, not &#8220;cis men.&#8221;
The judge opined about giving a shorter sentence because of Roske&#8217;s transgenderism even as she said that thanks to a court injunction, Roske may get female hormones in federal prison. &#8220;With the injunction in place, Ms. Roske could receive gender affirming care, but if that injunction goes away, she could be denied it. So when I sentence her, I take into account that she is a transgender woman.&#8221;
Prosecutor Coreen Mao said &#8220;A single-digit sentence will say the ends justify the means, it&#8217;s a gamble one will take to assassinate a Supreme Court justice.&#8221;
Boardman said &#8220;Why do you think that Ms. Roske, sitting here three years later, poses a danger to the public? &#8230; We can agree Ms. Roske neeeds intensive therapy. Will she be provided that in the Bureau of Prisons? We both know about the significant shortcomings by BOP in providing therapy.&#8221;
Roske&#8217;s lawyer said, and Boardman agreed, that Roske should get significant credit for calling the police and telling them about his plan. Prosecutors said he was spooked when he saw deputy U.S. Marshalls guarding Kavanaugh&#8217;s home.
His lawyer said &#8220;What makes this case unique is not that Ms. Roske tried to kill a political figure, it&#8217;s that she stopped and turned herself in.&#8221;
Boardman interjected: &#8220;Judges are not political!&#8221;
During the trial, the judge referred to the defendant by female pronouns, sometimes calling him by male pronouns and then correcting herself. Prosecutors avoided pronouns and called him &#8220;the defendant.&#8221; As The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-attempted-kavanaugh-assassin-identifies-as-transgender-woman-legal-filings-show">reported</a> last month, Roske&#8217;s legal name remains Nicholas and the case is captioned United States vs. Nicholas Roske. His legal team telegraphed ahead of the trial that much of the argument at sentencing would be based around this transgender identity.
READ MORE: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/would-be-kavanaugh-assassin-should-be-let-off-easy-because-he-identifies-as-transgender-family-says?author=Mary+Margaret+Olohan&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Would-Be+Kavanaugh+Assassin+Should+Be+Let+Off+Easy+Because+He+Identifies+As+Transgender%2C+Family+Says">Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Should Be Let Off Easy Because He Identifies As Transgender, Family Says</a>
A Daily Wire review of Roske’s postings on Reddit before the shooting shows that he is one in a string of violent trans-identifying individuals who are obsessed with video games and leftist politics. In one, he said he was a “Trans Gamer Girl Seeking Friend.” In another, he said he was “Seeking Daddy to Have Complete Sexual Control Over Me.”
Still another post said “Dating: I am into androgynous or feminine people who use she/her pronouns&#8230;. Play Partners: Pretty kinky, have a fet account and everything&#8230;. If you are not a cis man, chances are I am interested in playing with you :).”
Like the boyfriend of Tyler Robinson, who allegedly assassinated Charlie Kirk, Roske was apparently a “furry.”
He put out a classified ad calling himself a “MtF Pet For Owner.” It said, “I want to wear nothing but a collar, ears, and tail plug and communicate only through my body what I want.”
In one Reddit post, he explained that “I am pro-abortion (in favor of aborting fetuses, not pro-choice).” He said that all babies should be aborted, because they cannot give consent to being born. “This would require no deaths of people already in existence, it would simply prevent new people from coming into existence. Over time, resources would become more plentiful, another benefit of this method,” he wrote.
On May 20, 2022, he asked Reddit users, “The Roe v Wade leak has brought a lot of attention to the supreme court and what it is capable of. If going into the future the supreme court retains the same members, what is a realistic expectation for the future? On the other hand, if a conservative judge were replaced by a liberal judge, thus changing which party has the majority, what would change?”
The next day, he posted in Reddit’s “forensics” forum, claiming to be a novelist: “Writing a killer who is obsessed with not leaving evidence. What methods could they use?”

Transgender Man Who Planned To Assassinate Brett Kavanaugh Will Serve Just 8 Years

Maryland

President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to review the legality of his bid to limit birthright citizenship in the United States, teeing up a major test of one of his most contentious policies that could alter how the U.S. Constitution has long been understood on the subject.
The Justice Department filed two appeals of lower court rulings that blocked Trump&#8217;s executive order, which the Republican president signed on his first day back in office in January as a key part of his hardline approach toward immigration.
&#8220;The lower court&#8217;s decisions invalidated a policy of prime importance to the President and his Administration in a manner that undermines our border security. Those decisions confer, without lawful justification, the privilege of American citizenship on hundreds of thousands of unqualified people,&#8221; the Justice Department wrote in the appeals.
The department asked the Supreme Court to take up and resolve the case in its new term, which begins on October 6.
Trump&#8217;s executive order directed federal agencies to refuse to recognize the citizenship of children born in the United States who do not have at least one parent who is an American citizen or lawful permanent resident, also called a &#8220;green card&#8221; holder.
His action drew a series of lawsuits arguing among other things that the order violates a right enshrined in the Constitution&#8217;s 14th Amendment that provides that anyone born in the United States is a citizen.
After multiple lower courts halted the order as unconstitutional, the administration took the disputes to the Supreme Court in an effort to challenge the power of federal judges to issue so-called &#8220;universal&#8221; injunctions preventing presidential policies from applying against anyone, anywhere.
That action led the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, to issue a landmark ruling in June blunting the power of judges. But that ruling left open the possibility for courts to grant broad relief to states or to individual plaintiffs through class action lawsuits.
Two challenges to Trump&#8217;s order are at issue in Friday&#8217;s appeals. One was filed by the state of Washington and three other states, and the other by a group of individuals who sued in federal court in New Hampshire.
In July, the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the states, while U.S. District Judge Joseph Laplante in Concord, New Hampshire, let the plaintiffs in that case proceed as a class, allowing Trump&#8217;s order to be blocked nationally.
&#8220;This executive order is illegal &#8211; full stop &#8211; and no amount of maneuvering from the administration is going to change that. We will continue to ensure that no baby&#8217;s citizenship is ever stripped away by this cruel and senseless order,&#8221; Cody Wofsy, an attorney for the New Hampshire plaintiffs, told Reuters on Friday.
The administration is asking the justices to hear the New Hampshire dispute even before a Boston-based federal appeals court has ruled in the case.
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The 14th Amendment&#8217;s citizenship clause states that all &#8220;persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.&#8221; The 14th Amendment was ratified in 1868 in the aftermath of the Civil War of 1861-1865 that ended slavery in the United States.
The administration contends that the 14th Amendment, long understood to confer citizenship to virtually anyone born in the United States, does not extend to immigrants who are in the country illegally or even to immigrants whose presence is lawful but temporary, such as university students or those on work visas.
In Friday&#8217;s filings, the Justice Department said that a policy of universal birthright citizenship &#8220;operates as a powerful incentive for illegal migration&#8221; and has &#8220;spawned an industry of modern &#8216;birth tourism,&#8217; by which foreigners travel to the United States solely for the purpose of giving birth here.&#8221;
Since Trump returned to office, his administration has repeatedly asked the Supreme Court to intervene on an emergency basis to implement his policies even as their legality is tested in court, after judges blocked them.
The Supreme Court has sided with the administration in nearly every case it has been asked to review &#8211; including several related to Trump&#8217;s efforts to restrict migration and accelerate deportations.
The latest decision favoring Trump came on Friday, when the court allowed him to withhold about $4 billion in foreign aid authorized by Congress for the current fiscal year.
(Reporting by Andrew Chung in Washington; Editing by Will Dunham)

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