If The Dobbs Leak Investigation Were As Rigorous As The J6 Probe, Maybe We’d Know Who The Leaker Is

As part of her investigation into leaks of information at the United States Supreme Court, the marshal interviewed all nine justices. Dobbs Draft opinion, she confirmed Friday. Marshal Gail Curley’s belated statement followed a flurry of concerns raised by reporters who noted that the detailed 20-page report On the leak, Curley failed to mention any investigative efforts focusing on justices. While Curley’s clarification is helpful, further transparency and more rigor are needed.

Last Thursday, the high court issued a statement along with Curley’s report that followed the eight-month investigation into the leak of the draft opinion destined to overturn Roe v. Wade. Politico published This draft was published on May 2, 2022. It reported that the majority of justices in this case were Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Had “voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision…” 

“The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision — Planned Parenthood v. Casey — that largely maintained the right,” Politico wrote, quoting from the draft opinion Justice Samuel Alito’s pronouncement that “Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.”

As a result of the leak, abortion activists immediately mobilized. launching Protests at various locations across the country and outside the Supreme Court were held. In addition to the legal demonstrations, there were also protests by abortion apologists illegally screamed vulgarities, and descended upon the homes of the originalist justices. marching Through the private neighborhoods in which Chief Justice John Roberts is located and where Justices Brett Kavanaugh, AlitoAmy Coney Barrett,, and their families live. 

The illegal protests were meant to intimidate justices who were likely to sign off on this draft. Dobbs opinion, eventually escalated into an attempt on Kavanaugh’s life, when a mentally unstable man appeared near the justice’s Maryland home with a gun and a knife before turning himself into police.

Chief Justice Roberts also issued a statement following the publication of the draft opinion by Politico. Roberts condemned the leak after acknowledging the authenticity and stressing that it was not the court’s final opinion. “betrayal of the confidences of the Court,” He called it “a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here.” Roberts also announced Curley, he was his director “to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.”

In its statement from last week announcing the results of Curley’s investigation, the court began by reiterating the “grave assault on the judicial process” the leak represented — something the court described as “one of the worst breaches of trust in its history.” Then, after summarizing Curley’s handling of the investigation, the court declared the investigative “team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible [for the leak] by a preponderance of the evidence.”

The court attached to its statement a public version of the marshal’s investigative summary, along with a statement issued by former Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge and former

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