OMG. NYT Pitchbot is satirical, mocking the Times' attempts to be "even handed". But this feels like it could happen
Now I am back to thinking it was a leak from the Right, given that the investigation appears to be quietly forgotten. Shroud of slience on Supreme Court leak - Tampa Bay Times
The leak investigation is complete and the leaker is ..... unfound I totally agree with Elie Mystal. Said so somewhere earlier in this thread
Perhaps notable that they don't seem to say they don't have one or more suspects but that they can't prove it by a preponderance of the evidence.
Trump Calls For ‘Arrest’ of Politico Reporters and Editors Who Published Supreme Court Draft Leak to Force Them to Reveal Source Per Dear Leader, just throw the journalist who ran the story in jail. Screw freedom of the press, lock them up. #enemy of the people # authoritarian trash
Of course they were never going to find out who leaked it because it was one of the conservative justices, likely the author of the opinion.
Agree, probably the same Justice who leaked the opinion in the Hobby Lobby case. After Alito's Hobby Lobby Leak, It's Official—The Supreme Court Has Been Compromised Ethical Storm Clouds Continue to Darken the Door of the Supreme Court
So they hired a firm that had been paid over $1M in other consulting fees by the USSC to review the report that said they couldn't identify the leaker to give the non report report some legitimacy. They required everyone except the USSC justices to sign sworn affidavits. Maybe a conflict of interest that the firm would never implicate one of the judges in the majority and risk losing future business? duh...just reaffirms my belief that it was leaked by one of the authors Questions raised after Supreme Court hid financial ties to expert who validated leak probe (msn.com) Before the release of a report on the investigation into who at the Supreme Court was responsible for leaking the Dobbs draft ruling, that for all intents and appearances gutted Roe v. Wade, an outside expert was brought in to validate its findings and now there are questions about that review. ............. After its release, legal experts raised their eyebrows after it was revealed that Supreme Court clerks and staffers testified under oath but the Justice themselves were subjected to questioning but not asked to sign affidavits that what they stated was true. CNN is now reporting that an outside agency run by former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, with long-term financial ties to the court, did the appraisal raising questions of conflicts of interest. ............... According to CNN, "The estimated payments to Chertoff’s risk assessment firm, for consultations that extended over several months and involved a review of the justices’ homes, reached at least $1 million. The exact amount of money paid could not be determined. Supreme Court contracts are not covered by federal public disclosure rules and elude tracking on public databases," adding, "The justices have long cloaked themselves in secrecy to the point of declining to respond to questions about potential conflicts of interest, or to reveal information about some court rules and ethics codes; or to release timely information about the justices’ health and public appearances." "The court’s decision to keep secret the prior arrangements with Chertoff, whose professional path has intersected over the years with Chief Justice John Roberts and other court conservatives, as it used him for a seal of approval, adds to controversy over the leak investigation itself," CNN's Joan Biskupic wrote.
That was my guess too when it happened. She's already shown that the ends justify the means and she doesn't care about potential ethics issues. She's a hard-right political operative.
Beginning to believe the whole federal government is one big cesspool of corruption. Anyone not would be a "needle in a haystack".
Deep dive from NYT on the internal workings behind Dobbs. Not paywalled. Two obvious takeaways. No more limits on leaking. As in its rulings, the Court is confirming that it is just a straightforward political actor. The supposed breach of decorum of the first leak, the thought that accounts of internal deliberations like those detailed here will not be publicly disclosed for decades, is no more. The leak was from the far right wing, to block attempts to turn Kavanaugh or Barrett, both of whom are obvious sources, directly or indirectly, trying to reputation cleanse.
