Seven Months Later, We Still Don’t Know Identity of Who Leaked Dobbs Decision

Conservative News DailyDecember 21, 2022

The Supreme Court has yet to identify the person who leaked the draft opinion of the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade, more than seven months after the leak.

On May 2, Politico published a draft of the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the major abortion case that would eventually overturn Roe v. Wade. The unprecedented leak triggered protests across the country and at the justices’ homes that continued for months.

In a rare statement on May 3, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said the court would investigate how the opinion got out and said the leak “was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here.”

But nearly eight months into the investigation, the identity of the leaker has yet to be revealed.

MORE THAN 100 PRO-LIFE ORGS, CHURCHES ATTACKED SINCE DOBBS LEAK

As the new year and new congressional session approach, we still don’t know who leaked the draft opinion of the Supreme Court case that overturned Roe v. Wade this summer.
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In October, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the unprecedented leak made him and other majority justices into targets of possible political violence from those who opposed it.

“The leak also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us,” Alito said at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation.

But Alito did not appear to have knowledge of the leaker’s identity.

ALITO SAYS SUPREME COURT LEAK MADE HIM A ‘TARGET FOR ASSASSINATION’

Justice Samuel Alito said the unprecedented leak made him and other majority justices into targets of possible political violence from those who opposed it.
(Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

In September, Justice Elena Kagan said she was hopeful for an update on the investigation by the end of the month.

Also in September, Justice Neil Gorsuch said at a conference that he hopes the committee overseeing the investigation into the leaker has a report “soon,” according to a Wall Street Journal report. It’s unclear if that investigation report would be made available to the public even if it did determine who leaked the decision.

DATA SHOW THERE HAVE BEEN 22 TIMES MORE ATTACKS ON PRO-LIFERS THAN PRO-CHOICE GROUPS SINCE SUPREME COURT LEAK