The Supreme Court of the United States announced Thursday that its internal probe failed to find who leaked the draft Dobbs opinion by Justice Samuel Alito, indicating the court would overturn Roe v. Wade.
The opinion was leaked to the media in May 2022. One month later, the Supreme Court overturned Roe with the court's majority opinion authored by Alito.
The court stated that although it “has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence,” investigators believe it is unlikely to have resulted from a computer hack.
Per CNN:
Investigators said they conducted 126 formal interviews of 97 employees, all of whom denied disclosing the opinion.
The leak – the worst breach of confidentiality in the court's history – became public on May 2 when Politico published a draft opinion reversing the landmark 1973 decision that established a constitutional right to abortion. The disclosure rocked the court and left some justices with a sense of paranoia inside the confines of the marble-lined hallways. Shortly thereafter, on May 3, Chief Justice John Roberts issued a statement directing the marshal of the court, Gail Curley, to investigate the leak.
Curley oversees about 260 employees, including the court's police department which has the power to arrest people on the grounds.
In the report Thursday, Curley concluded that “whether or not any individual is ever identified,” the court should implement better policies concerning sensitive information.
A bill to boost security for Supreme Court justices and their families passed the Senate with bipartisan support around the same time as the foiled assassination plot against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. However, the emergency funding faltered in the House in the face of opposition from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others.
AOC took a victory lap on social media after blocking the legislation, which eventually passed. Her self-congratulatory video came after authorities charged Nicholas Roske with attempting to murder Justice Kavanaugh.
As American Liberty News' Paul Crespo reported at the time:
While many claim protesting is a protected right, doing so outside the home of a judge is not; it is illegal.
Federal law — Section 1507 of Title 18 of the U.S. Code — clearly states that it is unlawful to protest near a “residence occupied or used by [a] judge, juror, witness, or court officer” with the intent of influencing “the discharge of his duty.”
It adds that anyone who “resorts to any other demonstration in or near any such building or residence, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.”
Why? Because harassing justices and their families in their homes is obstruction of justice.
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This is a federal statute, so it's Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland's responsibility to enforce it. And he hasn't.
Crespo continued, contending that the White House not only downplayed the threat posed by far-left extremists but enabled their behavior by refusing even to condemn the doxxing of conservative Supreme Court justices' home addresses:
White House press secretary Jen Psaki at the time said: “We want people to protest peacefully if they want to,” adding that she didn't have “an official U.S. government position on where people protest.”
But again, there is an “official U.S. government position on where people protest” — it's 18 U.S.C. 1507.
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