"... including law clerks, but officials have yet to conclusively identify the alleged culprit, people familiar with the matter said...."
The Wall Street Journal reports.
A leak about the leak. Great.
By early summer, investigators had significantly narrowed the field of suspects, the people said. The interviews were sometimes short and superficial, a person familiar with the matter said, consisting of a handful of questions such as “Did you do it? Do you know anyone who had a reason to do it?”...
Law clerks—recent law-school graduates who win coveted one-year positions assisting a justice—are drilled in the court’s culture of confidentiality and warned to avoid reporters, lest secrets slip....
The leak came amid rumors that Chief Justice Roberts was seeking to persuade some members of the court’s conservative majority to join him in a half-step that would partly curb access to abortion, rather than fully eliminating the right....
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So 'tis with Christians, Nature being weak,
While in this world, are liable to leak.
(William Balmford, The Seaman's Spiritual Companion).
"Including law clerks". But have they ruled out all of the Justices?
I don't believe they don't know. I think someone with basic IT skills and proper access could have figured it out within the first week.
It will be the clerk married to the ex politico reporter who was friends with the reporter who broke the leak. But the leaking clerk will get a job at a white shoe firm and a spot on CNN.
Such horseshit.
He/she could have been caught the first day by any competent law enforcement officer.
He/she could have been caught the first day by any competent law enforcement officer.
How long has it been since the leak, 9-10 months? What’s the holdup? The time wasted on investigating all the things drives me crazy. Regulations and processes wreck building things and learning the truth about things in real time. And they keep getting longer and longer.
We sentence they to life imprisonment at Hotel Zena welded to a facial jig that forces the condemned to focus solely on a mural of Ruth Bader Ginsburg made of tampons.
It is a horrifying punishment when you think about it. Long term vs short. Kind of like where else would we eat on Christmas but Chinese water torture.
Sadistic.
Wow, so it took them 9 months to "narrow the inquiry"? That's great detective work, given their are about a million suspects. There are a million right? And not like 20 people?
I really wonder why this "Investigation" is still on-going. This struck at the heart of the SCOTUS and the "Trust between the justices". Why shouldn't this have been a top priority? But it obviously wasn't, probably because the Justices know exactly which SCOTUS judge and/or their clerks leaked it.
So why all the pretense that they're still looking for the REAL leaker? Sounds like their going to spend years trying to find them. I suspect OJ will find the real killer of Nicole first.
Jess Bravin covers the U.S. Supreme Court for The Wall Street Journal... His books include Squeaky: The Life and Times of Lynette Alice Fromme.
"Squeaky?"
Pre-dawn raids for all of them.
Let Roger Stone supervise...
did you do it?
Althouse said...
A leak about the leak. Great.
The Squeaky reporter gets the leak?
Whatever the result, this should have been wrapped up in two weeks. What sort of new information could possibly come to light?
I'm sticking with my theory: it was Sotomayor, who leaked a copy to the White House as a heads up of what was coming. The White House chose to leak it to Politico.
So they've not found the drip that leaked after all this time>
Total and unmitigated BS.
People familiar with the matter could be authorized to speak off the record. They aren’t necessarily leakers. Last year’s law clerks would have moved on to new jobs. They might not feel that this personnel matter falls within their duty of confidentiality. And what’s a small number, 3, 9, 27?
"So 'tis with Christians, Nature being weak,
While in this world, are liable to leak.
(William Balmford, The Seaman's Spiritual Companion)."
Sorry, but I love that. Christians are a hull that takes water, they can't resist sin without caulk and must pump the bilge of guilt accumulated over time. Therefore sin is the derivative of acts and guilt is the derivative of acts. Pain is the integral of sin from birth to death. I could get this published next month.
Water Closet? Obama is like Biden's Cache? That said, in what sense was the leaching a viable, Americans first, strategy? #HateLovesAbortion
I think that the best way to undermine the Supreme Court isn't to leak their unreleased opinions in an attempt to influence the eventual outcomes.
Maybe that was possible here. Somebody obviously thought it might be possible.
No, the best way to undermine the authority of the Supreme Court would be this ... leaving the Court twisting in the winds. Letting people know that the court is so bereft of experience in modern day life that it can't even identify those within it who are undermining it and manipulating it. Like the FBI, when they submitted all those false FISA applications.
What a bunch of losers.
That's the way you undermine the institution. You make it obvious they're a bunch of morons.
"Did you do it?" might be more effective than first appears. If a clerk answers in the present tense, or quibbles about the definition of "it" there's your man/woman/whatever pronoun.
I predict they will not determine who made the disclosure.
Took The FBI about 6? weeks to catch that guy that killed the Idaho students? They would of made short work of it. But Roberts knows the shit the FBI has been pulling. So maybe best to keep it in house.
is this first time ever that USSC have had to find facts and evidence?
once there is something to chew on who has jurisdiction on 'events in sanctorum'
We will never hear who did the leaking.
Just like we will never know who planted the pipe bombs at the RNC and the DNC.
Just like we will never know what really happened with the crazy man who shot all the people at the Las Vegas country western concert.
Just like we will never know exactly who hired Ray Epps at J6.
If a Justice was involved and the results of the investigation were published and she refused to resign, it would create enormous problems. Impeach the her? Maybe the evidence is clear and yet complicated - the offending Justice might be an instigator but not THE leaker - so that the media could obfuscate her guilt. She could sue. Then the accuser, say Roberts, might be more damaged than the guilty party. So, do nothing. Stasis. And stasis is what we have.
PS I say "she" but I mean the universal she which includes men.
<>But Roberts knows the shit the FBI has been pulling. So maybe best to keep it in house.<>
Facts not in evidence.
What paminwi said...@1:27am
Hint: Wise _______.
They had such a large pools of suspects to start with: 9 justices, their clerks, and the IT department. One of whom not only leaked, but was probably connected to the same people able to launch protests outside the homes of Justices - which garnered zero support from D.C. police or national political leadership. A true dilema.
Michael: "Just this once, you can ask me about my affairs."
Kay, tearfully, after a long pause in which we all relive Michael's anger of thirty seconds ago and all that led up to it: "Did you do it?"
Michael, after another long pause: "No."
Kay: "Okcool, let's have a drink!"
This scene sprang immediately to my mind for both this post and the one about how Twitter clearly wasn't colluding with the government to silence conservatives, but only sort of disorganizedly... doing something other than silencing conservatives, and by the way, now Musk is deamplifying progressives, so there.
(Which of course he is not, except in relative terms.)
Just go ahead and admit you don’t really care, because the speed of your “investigation” shows that you don’t really care, it was useful to keep democrats in power.
Just go ahead and admit you don’t really care, because the speed of your “investigation” shows that you don’t really care, it was useful to keep democrats in power.
"... rather than fully eliminating the right...."
That is funny. We have abortions up to our eyeballs in Illinois.
Human rites performed for social, redistributive, clinical, political, criminal, and fair weather causes are imperative to sustainable social progress. Keep women affordable, available, and taxable, and the "burden" of evidence aborted, perhaps cannibalized, and carbon pollutants sequestered in forward-looking sanctuary states.
That said, men, women, and "our Posterity" are from Earth. Feminists are from Venus. Masculinists are from Mars. Social progressives are from Uranus.
PS I say "she" but I mean the universal she which includes men.
The is no such thing as the "universal she". Made-up feminist wannabe bullsh*t.
Guimo said...
He/she could have been caught the first day by any competent law enforcement officer.
Good luck finding any in DC.
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