

In a recently released report, the Supreme Court announced that through their internal investigation, they have been unable to identify the individual responsible for leaking the draft of the controversial Dobbs decision.
Page 17 explains,
“At this time, based on a preponderance of the evidence standard, it is not possible to determine the identity of any individual who may have disclosed the document or how the draft opinion ended up with Politico. No one confessed to publicly disclosing the document and none of the available forensic and other evidence provided a basis for identifying any individual as the source of the document.”
BREAKING: Supreme Court announces its investigation into the Dobbs opinion leaker has come up short. The Court is "unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence." pic.twitter.com/AgVbwOIvXu
— Steven Mazie (@stevenmazie) January 19, 2023
Here’s a link to the full report.
I can’t help but notice the inclusion of the word “available” in there. None of the available forensic and other evidence led to discover the leaker. So is there, perhaps, evidence that is unavailable to them, either by choice or by force? I’m always skeptical. And I notice language like that.
It’s pretty incredible that we’ve been able to identify every single grandma who stepped foot on Capitol grounds on January 6th, but we are unable to identify the person responsible for leaking a whole draft of one of the most politically charged Supreme Court decisions in the history of this country. One could argue that the release of this draft decision begat more political violence than we saw on January 6th, what with the church and pregnancy support centers that were vandalized and bombed as a result. Seriously, wow. This paper pusher is good.
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I agree with MikeLemon. I think one of the three lib justices leaked it. I also think the investigator knows which one, but has decided against making it public because of the tsunami of controversy and chaos it would surely cause in the court.
SCOTUS is already skating on thin ice for many Americans, and I think outing the leaker would cause irreparable harm to the court’s reputation and credibility.
Knowing who leaked the Dobbs ruling and keeping it “in the house” would do a lot less harm to the court than revealing it to the world would.
I think Stu Burguiere’s “conspiracy theory” makes some sense. The Court doesn’t want to impugn its honor and integrity, so if the leak came from one of its Justices, they would want to keep that in house. None of the six that voted for it would leak, Kagan and Breyer look at the world a bit different but are reasonable. That leaves one, seemingly stupid, incredibly Progressively ideological, Justice.
Surely you don’t mean it’s the “Wise Latina”? Probably, and I won’t call you Shirley. Anymore.