Investigating the SCOTUS leak
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@Horace said in Investigating the SCOTUS leak:
I have no trouble believing it is true, but irrelevant to the current subject people actually care about.
That was more or less my conclusion.
@jon-nyc said in Investigating the SCOTUS leak:
@Horace said in Investigating the SCOTUS leak:
I have no trouble believing it is true, but irrelevant to the current subject people actually care about.
That was more or less my conclusion.
Irrelevancy to the Hobbs leak is at odds with the New York times story and your posting of a link to it in this thread.
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Well it could be that the NYT put the story in play so it'll be in the news for a couple days whether we like it or not, and I came here to comment on it, and communicate my skepticism that even credible evidence of an earlier leak by Alito didn't really point to him being the culprit given that vast differences in the scenarios.
Or it could be that I secretly looked at this as the smoking gun implicating Alito, and my version of 4D chess is to say the opposite of that when I post about it.
I'll report, you decide.
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Well it could be that the NYT put the story in play so it'll be in the news for a couple days whether we like it or not, and I came here to comment on it, and communicate my skepticism that even credible evidence of an earlier leak by Alito didn't really point to him being the culprit given that vast differences in the scenarios.
Or it could be that I secretly looked at this as the smoking gun implicating Alito, and my version of 4D chess is to say the opposite of that when I post about it.
I'll report, you decide.
@jon-nyc said in Investigating the SCOTUS leak:
Well it could be that the NYT put the story in play so it'll be in the news for a couple days whether we like it or not, and I came here to comment on it, and communicate my skepticism that even credible evidence of an earlier leak by Alito didn't really point to him being the culprit given that vast differences in the scenarios.
Or it could be that I secretly looked at this as the smoking gun implicating Alito, and my version of 4D chess is to say the opposite of that when I post about it.
You enjoyed the political valence of the transparently tribal “news” story. It’s not complicated. But yes duly noted that you respectfully disagree with the absurd connection with the Hobbs leak.
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You’re going to figure large in the things I’m grateful for this thanksgiving,
LucyHorace. Without you, how would I know what I think and why?@jon-nyc said in Investigating the SCOTUS leak:
You’re going to figure large in the things I’m grateful for this thanksgiving,
LucyHorace. Without you, how would I know what I think and why?You’ve been calling people tribally motivated for years and years here. Meanwhile in your dotage you’ve become maybe the most emotionally invested tribalist on this board. Even if your tribe is more based on hate for the right than it is on respect for the left.
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An investigation into the leak of a bombshell Supreme Court ruling overturning the federal right to abortion — weeks before it was officially released — failed to identify the culprit, the court said Thursday.
The inconclusive end to the probe was another embarrassment for the Supreme Court, which called the leak “one of the worst betrayals of trust in its history” and “a grave assault on the judicial process.”
Investigators interviewed nearly 100 court employees in the probe, 82 of whom had access to electronic or hard copies of the draft majority opinion by conservative Justice Samuel Alito.
But neither Alito nor the court’s other eight justices were eyed in the investigation, according to an official report.
Wouldn't it have been a kick if one of the justices leaked it?
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An investigation into the leak of a bombshell Supreme Court ruling overturning the federal right to abortion — weeks before it was officially released — failed to identify the culprit, the court said Thursday.
The inconclusive end to the probe was another embarrassment for the Supreme Court, which called the leak “one of the worst betrayals of trust in its history” and “a grave assault on the judicial process.”
Investigators interviewed nearly 100 court employees in the probe, 82 of whom had access to electronic or hard copies of the draft majority opinion by conservative Justice Samuel Alito.
But neither Alito nor the court’s other eight justices were eyed in the investigation, according to an official report.
Wouldn't it have been a kick if one of the justices leaked it?
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Justice Alito says he has ‘pretty good idea’ who was behind leak
Justice Samuel Alito said that he has a “pretty good idea” who was responsible for the unprecedented disclosure of a draft opinion of a Supreme Court ruling last year, suggesting it was someone who opposed reversing the Roe v. Wade precedent that protected abortion rights nationwide.
In an interview published Friday by The Wall Street Journal in its opinion section, Alito dismissed the idea that the draft was leaked by one of the five conservative justices who were in the majority of the ruling.
“That’s infuriating to me,” Alito said of the speculation. “Look, this made us targets of assassination. Would I do that to myself? Would the five of us have done that to ourselves? It’s quite implausible.”
He acknowledged in the interview, which took place in mid-April, that he didn’t have the level of proof about who was behind the leak that would make it appropriate to name the person he thinks was responsible. The final opinion overturning Roe in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization largely tracked with the draft.
“It was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft … from becoming the decision of the court,” Alito said. “And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside – as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.”
Alito has previously condemned the leak, as have other justices. The Supreme Court in a January statement called the disclosure a “grave assault on the judicial process.”
The statement was issued with a public version of a report summarizing the investigation into the leak conducted by the marshal of the court, Gail Curley. The release said that the investigative team had “to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence.”
Politico obtained and published the draft in early May, several weeks before the court released the final opinion at the end of its term.
In his latest comments to the Journal, Alito said the marshal “did a good job with the resources that were available to her” and agreed with her decision not to publicly identify a culprit. He condemned the threats and hostility facing the court, including an alleged assassination attempt against Justice Brett Kavanaugh last summer.
Alito took swipes in the interview at those he said have criticized the court “unfairly,” and he griped about how some pockets of the legal profession were playing a role in the criticism rather than defending the high court.
“The idea has always been that judges are not supposed to respond to criticisms, but if the courts are being unfairly attacked, the organized bar will come to their defense,” he said, adding, “If anything, they’ve participated to some degree in these attacks.”
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