Yeah sure. The Supreme Court of the United States asserts today that after a nine-month investigation [SEE HERE] they just cannot find the person who leaked the draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
The draft opinion on the abortion issue was leaked to Politico from inside the court in May 2022 in what the court calls “one of the worst breaches of trust in its history.” However, despite their efforts to get to the bottom of the leak and find the leaker, they cannot find out who it was.
The court then delivers a two-page memo explaining the situation, and a 23-page report from former Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff.
(Source)
This reminds me of the Carter Page FISA leak on March 17, 2017, when the FBI investigator found the leaker, James Wolfe, but when push came to shove into court the DOJ official position evolved into the FISA was never leaked. Obviously, Senate Intelligence Committee (SSCI) Vice-Chair Mark Warner (D-VA) breathed a sigh of relief. Similarly, whoever the leaker of the Dobbs decision was/is also safe now.
It’s odd how DC always finds a way to protect itself. Something akin to “prosecution was declined” whenever FBI unlawful conduct is discovered.
In the SCOTUS leak example, we are supposed to pretend every possible avenue of investigation was exhausted and yet the rascal leaker couldn’t be found. The “Marshal of the Supreme Court” did her earnest best but came up empty. Probably because the leaker is hiding with the January 6th pipe bomber. Yeah, gottabe.
Hey man! Leaks happen.
It always goes in one direction,
but leaky pipes leaks.
Ima plumber. Trust me.
Depends.
I remember when one of my toilets was leaking water out of the base.
Many here might have that problem.
Heres the fix: Switch out the the flange and closet bolts. New wax ring..
Lots of times the subfloor is soft, so make sure your flange/ring/closet is in line and tight.
Thatll, do it,
Yessiree..discovered a leak in a basement closet..actually my floor guy did..he went upstairs, analyzed the problem, replaced the wax ring..bingo..
Politicians make for really crappy plumbers.
They cost a lot of money, but don’t fix your problem.
And they do more leaking than the pipes.
Ya those Depends diapers leak too
Depends on the flow rate…!
All puns aside, the SCOTUS statement seems to be overly sincere. Too self righteous.
Hillary, Nadler, Biden.
They sure do!
Cherthoff is another 911 special
I am sure one or two of the justices knows who it was, maybe even told them to do it.
Yes, and most likely one of the leftists or one of their staff.
If I were one of the conservative justices, I would have no trust in any of my staff until this is resolved.
That means they may have to change how they do business.
What a terrible work environment where you can’t trust anyone, because of leftism.
They won’t be changing the way they do business. This is the way our government “governs” us now.
Which underscores why it never works to have an investigation that depends on liars telling the truth.
Or investigations run by doctors of information disorder:
https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/about-us/advisory-council/
And married to an Aspen Institute executive director with access to the SCOTUS and the press:
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/the-cases-are-complex-says-supreme-court-justice-stephen-breyer/
…”Even an opinion drafted as a dissent, Breyer noted, can at the end of the day turn into a majority opinion if enough Justices can be persuaded. And dissents can have other roles – by providing a roadmap to the Court for the future.”…
Meryl Chertoff
July 2018
Another by Mrs. Chertoff:
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/will-election-ensure-ninth-supreme-court-justice/
Mrs. Chertoff on the Dobbs decision:
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3536720-the-right-to-travel-to-seek-an-abortion-in-a-post-dobbs-world/
Also at the Aspen Institute, the former editor of Politico, Garrett Graff.
Graff was also the board chair of the NCoC, National Conference on Citizenship, a stakeholder of the Stanford Election Integrity Partnership, that censored Twitter and social media platforms.
Both Graff and Mrs. Chertoff have affiliations with Georgetown U.
And of course, Michael Chertoff is a board member of the Atlantic Council, whose Defending Digital Democracy Project is also a stakeholder 0f the Election Integrity Partnership.
Small world.
And an incestuous one.
Sharon: Yeah, why is that?
Roberts or one of his clerks is the guilty party
Pretty sure most everybody on the Court–including the clerks–knows or has a good idea who did it. The reason the leaker cannot be identified is because the leaker is too big to identify.
A clerk may have done it, but it was with a Justice’s knowledge, approval or even active support.
“The reason the leaker cannot be identified is because the leaker is too big to identify”
Astute, Maximus
I salute you, Sir!
Hmmm, maybe it’s time for another Justice to perfect Justice and to allow for a new leak of who the Dobbs Leakers are,… to put a stop to this High Court Treachery,… perhaps Justice Thomas to balance the scales of justice now?
Unfortunately, treachery and deviousness only works one way. Justice Thomas cannot get anywhere near a leak in retaliation as it would absolutely result in his outing. Nearly everyone in DC would love nothing better than to drum him out of office.
To me its clear that Roberts and a perhaps a few other justices know who leaked Alitos’s draft opinion, but can’t afford to out them as it would result in the outing of one of the leftist justices–assuming it wasn’t a leftist justice who leaked the draft.
you have an insightful point
Then everyone is fired. Simple as that.
I like the way you think.👍
What if it was a justice? Or, what if it was with the support and encouragement of a justice?
Sorry to say, can’t fire Supreme Court Justices.
Maybe that is why the leaker wasn’t fingered.
It’s probably Breyer. What are you going to do to a retired Associate Justice?
Yeah, he strikes me as a sly old puss.
Means, Motive, Opportunity. And zero punishment.
This is the same group that saw no reason to question the fraudulent election.
One and the same.
Nothing to see here.
And even if we Supremes believe there were, you voters have no standing.
Liars, cheats & thieves. Sad how an amazing country has been destroyed from within.
So … this suggests to me that one of the leftist Judges actually leaked it. Soto- mayyorrr is my guess.
No the new black one. Dumb as a box of rocks. Apologies to rocks.
What’s a rock?
We’re going to need a geologist to answer that.
Call in the petrologists!
She wouldn’t know, because she’s not a geologist.
Lol! Good one!
Easy answer … rocks are genderless
An inanimate object higher on the evolutionary scale than liberals.
Shh wasn’t on the bench yet, not that I think she’d be above such an act.
It’s obvious the leak came from one of the three liberal Justices but, if it came out, it would destroy the reputation of the court. If it were a clerk or secretary, they would have been thrown under the bus in two seconds. My money is on the Justice who retired two months after the draft opinion was disclosed: Stephen Breyer. Case closed.
Well … the Chief Justice did lecture PDJT that the SCOTUS is a-political … free of political bias. How such an ignorant statement … nay, LIE … emanate from the highest legal office in the nation only certifies what deep shit our country is in.
That the court is free of political bias is simply the official narrative, as it were – I’m sure neither the Chief Justice nor anyone else with ten-cents worth of brains believes anything of the sort.
That the Chief Justice felt the “need” to take to the airwaves to REBUKE the sitting President of The United States … says it all. The Chief Justice believes he is “above” the voters. Above the people of the US who are sooooo unwashed as to actually believe SCOTUS Judges are politically biased. Puhleeeze.
“Reputation of the court”- like the old phrase “she’s got a reputation”!
Soto’ll retire soon, it’s been talked about for a while, and walk off, maybe private jet off, the map of relevance.
Nope. The Pretender. The swinger who calls balls and strikes, but hit a home-run for Team Obama wanted the decision watered down. Tried to pressure the squishy “conservatives.”
Yes, it was a (biological) female clerk who worked for Breyer – she was a pro-abortion fanatic and her husband (a biological male) knew and worked with the journalist who was the original source of the leak.
It’s possible she was the cut out for Justice Breyer himself, but at the very least was a willing or enthusiastic accomplice.
YES! Best theory in my opinion.
I read that there also was a fanatical clerk for Sotomayor who many Supreme Court insiders felt pretty sure was the leaker from day one.
These “investigators” are idiots. The answer is obvious if they pull their heads out of their butkiss: it’s either, Kagan, Sotomayor, Roberts, Breyer (on his way out), or “I don’t know what a woman is unless it benefits me getting on SCOTUS.” If it had been one of Trump’s 3 appointees, Alito, or the much-maligned Thomas they’d have bus tire tracks up one side and down the other already.
These people think we’re stupid. If one applies the “cui bono? test the answer is glaringly obvious.
The “investigators” are not idiots. Rather, they are useful, Barr’s proteges.
I agree with Charles Carroll – IMHO they investigators knew early on who the leaker was – an independent investigator easily identified a female law clerk who was a known pro-abortion fanatic and whose journalist husband was a colleague and friend of the journalist who leaked the story. Their investigation was merely a sham, and not to be taken seriously.
Just like the total non-investigation of the clearly fraudulent 2020 election.
Makes no sense!
Liars!
I don’t expect equal justice under the law until the cold civil war is over.
Equal justice is the product of a functioning society based on the Constitution and universal acceptance of our traditions and founding principles.
We don’t currently have that, in America. The visions of who we will be in this nation are in competition, and not at all compatible with each other. Equal Justice vs Political Justice is but one example.
Then fire everyone.
Yep. When I was a kid, along with my other 7 siblings, if someone did something worthy of a spanking,mom didn’t know who it was, she would say, “Okay, you’re all going to get a spanking unless someone fesses up.” We all took the spanking…thick as thieves! 🤣
All employees need to get the spanking.
Reminds me of my sister. Dad found lipstick on a towel in my sisters bathroom and asked who put it there. Said if nobody admitted it both of us would get a whipping (back then you didn’t get spanked) Sister denied, I looked befuddled because I didn’t do then as now, lipstick. So I got my ass beat, sister got hers…then admitted she did it. Dad lit her up again and she never did that again.
Nice dad.
I mean I thought my dad was tough. What did she do, smash lipstick all over everything?
When a team loses, it’s the manager that gets fired.
Yeah, the question is who’s the manager.
Requires impeachment by the house and trial in the Senate to remove a Justice. Only one SCOTUS Judge has been impeached: Samuel Chase in 1804. He was acquitted by the Senate. Good luck!
It is hard for Roberts to investigate LEAKER Roberts!
Joe’s lawyers seem pretty good at sniffing things out. Send them in!
Hey, as soon as I read: some clerks, employees, shared this information with their spouses….The End!
Fuggetaboutit!
Personal note:
I’ve been on a jury, my husband has been on several juries and has served as jury chairman from local to federal court.
During our time serving, never, ever, ever did we speak about the case to each other E.V.A.H.!
If these court employees, court clerks have no higher ethical standards than to believe it’s a.o.k. to discuss cases and opinions with their spouses, something is really awry.
This is beyond believable from the world in which we evolved and lived for many decades.
I cannot believe the bar has been lowered to this standard.
Pathetic!
Those who violated the court’s protocol for confidentiality by discussing the matter with their spouses, etc., should be summarily fired. BS on “more training” and these other CYA actions – these employees all knew or should have known the rules.
It sounds like they’ll all skate – what a shock /sarc.
Absolutely!
When I was working and affiliated with a court system; that in fact did happen.
It was done quietly but it was done!
This is BS!
Once an employee goes home and tells the spouse, then who does the spouse speak to and so on…
It doesn’t take a genius to figger this shit out.
Those employees, regardless of their past loyalty and sterling background and “work ethic”, love, devotion to the “law”…summarily fire them. P.E.R.I.O.D.!!!
This will never happen again.
The fact that nobody will be dismissed is all the more reason to believe it was from a liberal justice or aa staff member of one of them. Liberals/leftists always avoid accountability for their misprisions.
Which side of the court would do such a thing? Constitutionalists or Progressives? Shucks… I really wonder!
Corrupt court. Shame on all of them.
My guess is roberts.
I’m going to go with Elizabeth Deutsch for $300 Alex.
Is “she/her” a nickname? How does this work?
those are her “pronouns”
all Leftists must announce them … conspicuously
it’s like a secret insignia, a secret lapel pin, a secret handshake, “I am a Liberul”
So true!!
Was she one of the employees/clerks who “so notated” that they told their spouses?
If not, you’re barking up the wrong tree, unless you can get the reporter to confirm.
This is beyond absurd.
Ah, I see at least one other fellow reader is aware of who the leaker is – I’m not sure about the rules of posting here so I didn’t identify her by name in my comments.
But yes, IMHO she’s painfully obviously the leaker.
In other words, the leaker was not in the offices of Justices Alito, Thomas or Gorsuch.
You don’t know that, if one of their employees or clerks happened to be the ones who “so notated” that they told their spouses.
Anyone who told their spouses is suspect!
I guess you did not get the nuance. If the leaker was in one of those offices, I am willing to bet he/she would have been “found”.
I got the nuance but it is irrelevant. Unless you know those employees who so “notated” they told their spouses, which I don’t, therefore it matters not what SCJ you reference.
Those employees who notated they told their spouses are suspect and should be summarily dismissed.
Only one person was hoping to benefit from it. Chief Justice Robert’s.
A few of the these justices… well, I will say it anyway… I just wonder if they really believe in America and the principles it was founded upon and the rule of law? A couple of them are, well…I question if they believe in our constitution…
You’re in good company.
CAN’T lives on WON’T street.
Someone is taking a leak on WTP.
They are protecting their institution’s reputation just like all the rest.
Just like they can’t find the person who killed Burnell Trammel in Milwaukee. Yet they know every person who stepped on the Capitol grounds on January 6th.
If I was a clerk there, I would be very angry because they are all going to be tarnished. It will affect all of their reputations and career paths.
I think this shows great weakness and incompetence in our investigatory agencies. They are due for an overall.
How so?
Those who jabbered to their spouses, should be suspect. If they didn’t jabber to their spouses, then those employees should raise HELL!
Fire those who told their spouses. It’s all notated. They should be summarily fired!
What if the leaker was the chief just is.
Biden said when it comes to the top secret docs found at 4 locations there is no there there.
No there there with supreme leak and no there there when it comes to biden mr no there there himself.
Its neither here nor there.
We must just accept the fact our “govment” is no there there.
Don’t care…feds handed murdering unborn back to the states.
Kansas-Nebraska redo.
I do believe the NSA could track the phone call from SCOTUS to the reporter who leaked the opinion. However, they could have used a burner phone, or met in the DC garage like Deep Throat.
voice recognition software
Or used an intermediary; deep state actor. Maybe Ray Epps, or Seth Rich’s “robber.”
‘The investigators preserved, collected, and reviewed any forensic information that could be found on the Court’s IT systems’
Love to hear more about review of the forensic evidence.
There ‘s investigative electronic tools and there’s investigative electronic investigative tools.
Ditto tool users.
Yes just like bombs – think Christopher Wray explosive devices and Cesar Sayoc Jr. (Florida man in white van with Trump stickers).
Just like any government involvement in the Kennedy assasinations or anything else. Any evidence will be classified for 50 years or indefinitely if they want, if it still matters in 50 years.
Expect more assassination attempts against conservative Supreme Court Justices.
It’s probably the same character responsible for Seth Rich, Epstein, JFK & RFK, Bidet’s misplaced documents, and so forth. We’re putting our best people on it. Right. Go to commercial!
They call it “one of the worst breaches of trust in its history” because they refuse to acknowledge others.
And they refuse to go after those who told their spouses.
It was Kagan, and she knew she would be immune from prosecution or condemnation.
Who would have a motive to leak? The known liberals would of course. The Conservatives would appear to have no motive. So the motive was to get someone squishy to change their opinion. We know the squishiest is the chief(who claims to call balls and strikes)and upheld the health insurance mandate by deeming it a tax, no? The Pretender.
Contrarian that I am, I have to point out, its NOT easy, to catch a leaker.
They don’t WANT to be caught, so certainly aren’t going to admit it, and unless you feed them documents to leak (for a serial leaker) that you put certain tell-tail ‘facts’ in, and see which version gets leaked, exactly HOW are you going to catch them?
That said, the whole “classification” process has gotten rediculous, and “leaking” is a THING in D.C.
EVERYBODY does it, and nobody ever pays a price for it.
Well then, if that is the case, then why did Chief Justice Roberts go to such great lengths to ‘find the leaker’ and blah, blah, blah.
I could narrow it down very quickly, if I was in charge. Anyone who told their spouse, is suspect and would have to prove their innocence or be fired. OR I would recommend firing all who told their spouses.
I’ve seen both approaches and both worked just fine.
There’s another end to investigate… the recipient of the leak.
The recipient would have much to lose should he disclose the outfit.
He might all of sudden die “unexpectedly” or find himself swimming with the fishes.
Woodward and Bernstein kept he Deep Throat secret for over 30 years until FBI Associate Director Mark Felt revealed he was Deep Throat in 2005.
Politico
Sotomayor, Kagan, Meyer and the one that isn’t a biologist.. start there.
Shame Trump’s DNIs didn’t leak like seives. COWARDS. Could have claimed the shame.
The ussc is going to have to get used to being looked at, as a corrupt and or compromised institution. This court has lost all credibility and has disgraced itself.
The original Roe v. Wade ruling was leaked, too
https://www.npr.org/2022/05/03/1096097236/roe-wade-original-ruling-leak
REMINDER: SLEAZY CHERTOFF!!!!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/05/wow-biden-regime-hires-michael-chertoff-previously-targeted-gateway-pundit-breitbart-lead-disinformation-board-another-hunter-biden-laptop-truther/
Sorry if I forget the Chief Justice’s name who “Died Suddenly” whilst he was attending a hunting trip at the Cheney sprorting event either.
If you can’t trust one you can’t trust any. Fire them all. Somebody who wants to save their clerkship will come forward.
92 individuals sign a “affidavit” claiming in essence..”I di du nuthin. I know nuthin and saw nuthin”. Case closed. How about requesting ALL 92 submit to a polygraph examination? Those who REFUSE are now suspects in furtherance of the investigation.
They know who did it.
The Supreme Court cannot find true justice let alone one of their own who committed crimes.
Maybe the secret FISA court is responsible.
Calling John Roberts to the Lolita express
You gotta be joking.
You seriously have to be joking.
This is most comical thing about our government that I have read today. Something tells me that it was a SC judge that gave the orders to leak it. But it would be too embarrassing for the court to admit that. Pretty awful. Looks like they are protecting their ranks.
SCOTUS majority is a bunch of cowards and that includes most of Trump appointees.