https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096097236/roe-wade-original-ruling-leak
This really truly needs to be investigated. If we do not find the source of the leak, as long as there is a majority of conservatives on the bench there will continue to be leaks. Politico is a liberal Media source, no conservative Justice or Law clerk would have leaked the FULL draft opinion to POLITICO! Morning Edition reported that the leak was not a crime but that “it’s a career-ender for whoever did” and I would add put the entire court in unnecessary danger and at risk of being compromised.
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The news site Politico sent shockwaves across the country last night when it published what appears to be an initial draft majority opinion — written by Justice Samuel Alito and reportedly circulated inside the court — suggesting that the U.S. Supreme Court intends to strike down Roe v. Wade.
Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the authenticity of the document in a statement on Tuesday morning, but says it does not represent the court's final position. He's also ordered the Supreme Court marshal to investigate the leak.
Leaks of any kind are rare at the Supreme Court, and Totenberg says there hasn't been such a massive breach in modern history. She called it a "bomb at the court" that undermines everything the body stands for internally and institutionally, including its members' trust in their law clerks and in each other.
"No fully-formed draft opinion has been leaked to the press or outside the court," Totenberg says. "Once or twice there may have been leaks that say how is something going to turn out, or after-the-fact that somebody may have changed his or her mind. But this is a full-flown, Pentagon Papers-type compromise of the court's work."
In 1973, the original Roe decision was leaked to the press before the court had formally announced it.
Totenberg had predicted on Morning Edition that the court would try internally to figure out who leaked the document, noting that while such a leak isn't a crime, "it's a career-ender for whoever did."
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