Welcome back to “Forgotten Fact-Checks,” a weekly column produced by National Review’s News Desk. This week, we recap the mainstream media’s silence on the foiled assassination attempt against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, highlight the threat a single praying coach poses to American democracy, and hit more media misses.

Media Look Away from Kavanaugh Attempted Assassination Plot

A California man traveled to the Maryland home of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh last week with the intent to murder the conservative justice, and if you haven’t been tuned into explicitly conservative media, there’s a legitimate chance that this is the first time you’re hearing about it.

Many news outlets and Democratic lawmakers carried on, business as usual, even after news broke that police detained 26-year-old Nicholas John Roske early Wednesday morning after he exited a taxi in front of Kavanaugh’s home in Maryland wearing black clothes, according to a criminal complaint. The man told authorities he called 911 because he was having suicidal thoughts. He told a dispatcher he had come “from California to kill a specific” Supreme Court justice, the affidavit said.

Authorities found a Glock 17 handgun with two magazines and ammunition, a tactical knife, pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, a screwdriver, and other gear in Roske’s backpack.

Roske told authorities that he was motivated by the leaked majority draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that would overturn Roe v. Wade. He said he was contemplating “how to give his life purpose” when he decided to kill Kavanaugh after finding his address on the Internet, according to the complaint. (The pro-abortion group Ruth Sent Us created a website to advertise the home addresses of the Court’s conservative justices, though it’s unclear exactly where online Roske found the address.)