"Worse Than Dobbs:" Leftwing of Court Illegally Leaks to Damage Majority Again

Is Roberts once again going to call for a deliberately-toothless investigation with no power to compel people to disclose their cell-phone records? With no one swearing, under oath, they're not the leaker?

That's what I imagine he'll do.

The latest leaks about the Supreme Court's internal deliberations on three major cases involving former President Donald Trump could be coming from a high level member of the minority, former clerks and long time court observers told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Drawing on "details from the justices' private memos, documentation of the proceedings and interviews with court insiders, both conservative and liberal," a Sunday report published by The New York Times offered a window into the the justices' decision making process on three major cases, including Trump v. United States, where the Supreme Court held former presidents are immune from prosecution for official acts taken in office. The report mainly targets Chief Justice John Roberts, highlighting his efforts to secure a consensus on controversial cases.

"This is another disturbing leak from the Court, and Congress should look into it because clearly a member of the minority is conspiring with the Left to destroy the Court," JCN President Carrie Severino told the DCNF.

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South Texas College of Law Houston professor Josh Blackman argued in Reason that the New York Times' report was "far worse than the Dobbs leak" in 2022, when Alito's draft decision overturning Roe v. Wade was leaked to Politico. He noted the latest leaks are "systematic and thorough," requiring insights from "so many different people."

"Moreover, all of this comes after the Dobbs leak when Chief Justice Roberts (apparently) put strict limitations on access to Court information," he wrote. "What did all of those measures accomplish? Apparently not much."

Blackman wrote that he believes Justice Elena Kagan's absence from the reporting suggests she or her surrogates are behind the leaks.

"If Kagan is willing to publicly undermine her colleagues in a speech at the Ninth Circuit, why would she do any less off-the-record?" he wrote. "Moreover, this entire story is consistent with Kagan's MO, and describing the Court as bending over backwards for Trump."

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Ilya Shaprio, director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute, told the DCNF the leaks are "a further reflection of the left's discontent at having lost control of the Court."

"This is all part of a campaign to smear and pressure justices, and ultimately to delegitimize one of the few remaining institutions that hews to the rule of law and can resist progressive fascism," Shaprio said.

Carrie Severino
@JCNSeverino

Terrible leaks of confidential Court documents like this are deliberately aimed at intimidating and pressuring the originalist justices into changing their opinions on key cases in the future.

And if they don't -- their reputations will be dragged through the mud and they will subjected to targeted harassment and even potential violence.

We are at this unprecedented and dangerous moment because the Left is waging a full-blown political campaign to delegitimize and destroy the Supreme Court so they can exert total control over it.

posted by Ace at 03:19 PM

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