Possible Identification of the SCOTUS Leaker (Via Twitter)

Twitter feed of Will Chamberlain ^ | May 3, 2022 | Will Chamberlain

[Yo-Yo]

[Yo-Yo Note: This is a compilation of several Twitter threads by Will Chamberlain. I have created links to the images that he originally had in his posts. I didn't put the actual images into this post because it made Will's naration too hard to follow. Just click on the links to see the images that he is revering to in each segment.]

https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1521685968939630592

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Will Chamberlain
@willchamberlain

Meet Elizabeth Deutsch. She's currently a law clerk for Justice Breyer.

And, in my humble opinion, she's the most likely person to have leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs, purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade.

But first, a disclaimer:

I have no inside information. This thread is speculation, based almost entirely on publicly available information. I could easily be wrong.

Cool? Cool.

Her academic background isn't that uncommon for Supreme Court clerks. Yale undergrad, Yale law, and 2 British Master's degrees, from LSE and Cambridge.

Do note the Master's degree in Gender.

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Here's where things start to get interesting. Every law student has to write a note - a long legal research paper, usually making a novel argument about the law.

Elizabeth Deutsch wrote hers about reproductive rights and abortion.

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Specifically, she argued that Obamacare's non-discrimination provision should be interpreted to *force* Catholic hospitals to perform "emergency abortions."

Aggressive argument - and hey, law students make aggressive arguments.

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While in law school she wrote a NYT op-ed about reproductive rights. Sensing a theme here.

Her career page on LinkedIn doesn't reveal that much...until we start digging a little further.

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First, thanks to her NYT wedding announcement (of course), we know that she clerked for judge Nina Pillard.

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Pillard was one of the DC Circuit judges appointed by Obama and forced through by Harry Reid blowing up the filibuster.

She's stridently pro-choice. Perhaps not shocking.

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After her clerkships, she got a Gruber fellowship at the ACLU for a full year.

What was she working on?

You guessed it. Abortion and reproductive rights.

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But none of this proves anything. Yes, Deutsch's career seems pretty focused on abortion. But without some connection to Josh Gerstein (the journalist who received the leak opinion) there would be no reason to suspect her.

Let's go back to that NYT wedding announcement.

"The bride and groom met at Yale. She is a lawyer. He is a journalist.

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Isaac Arnsdorf just got hired by the Washington Post as a national political reporter. (Of course he's on the Trump beat).

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But where has he written in the past?

Oh, look. He wrote for POLITICO.

SHARING A BYLINE WITH JOSH GERSTEIN.

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Looks like Gerstein and they are still bros - chatting on Twitter, interacting as recently as last year.

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So, to conclude:

We have a currently-serving Supreme Court law clerk whose career has been almost solely focused on abortion.

She wrote her law school note on abortion.
She wrote op-eds about reproductive rights.
She spent a year working on abortion for the ACLU.

She clerked for a stridently pro-choice appellate judge.

And it just so happens that her husband is a journalist, who shared bylines with Josh Gerstein at Politico, and it looks like they are still buds.

I don't know that Elizabeth Deutsch leaked the draft opinion.

But I certainly think someone who has spent much of their academic and professional life fighting to expand the right to get an abortion could be desperate enough to do so.

FIN

[Yo-Yo]

One person's speculation as to who the SCOTUS leaker might be, but Will does present some interesting circumstantial evidence for his theory.

[VeniVidiVici]

Very good!

[TnTnTn]

Soon to be ensconced into the bust hall of fame in the Rotunda by the rats…

[The_Media_never_lie]

Do note the Master's degree in Gender.

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How does one become a master of one's gender?

[BluH2o]

Well researched. Good possibility the author is on to something ... since no one is claiming responsibility up to this point ... this might point Roberts in the right direction.

[Yo-Yo]

How does one become a master of one's gender?

I'm still working on my undergrad in gender.

[1Old Pro]

How does one become a master of one's gender?

I dunno, I'm not a biologist

[Buttons12]

“Master’s degree in Gender”

I hope it won’t take too long...got a busy day ahead of me...but I simply have to know what that means.

[TigerClaws]

She learned the 57 genders. They gave her a degree for that.

With every device and email recorded by DS it’d be easy to find the leaker.

Leaker also looking at a seven-figure book and movie deal.

[Carl Vehse]

Mr. Waterboard has another potential interviewee.

[The Louiswu]

So what...even if this “leaker” is identified it won’t make a bit of difference, they won’t be prosecuted, they’ll be defended and idolized by the left, this is the state of the Right, always barking up any tree making themselves look stupid.

[Buttons12]

Does she have children? (Can journalists and lawyers breed?)

[HighSierra5]

If it truly is her then dox the crap out of her.

[EEGator]

It better be correct, or this is F’d up.

[Midwesterner53]

Possibly. However, if we depend on the FBI, we will find that Donald Trump leaked the info.

[Yo-Yo]

It means what you probably think it means. Her degree was from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and here is the school's web page on the Gender degree:

https://www.lse.ac.uk/gender

Department of Gender Studies

LSE Gender pioneers intersectional, interdisciplinary and transnational teaching and research, addressing the tenacity of gendered power relations and gendered inequalities in times of global transformations. Established in 1993, LSE Gender is the largest Department of Gender Studies in Europe.

[Krosan]

Maybe I am too optimistic, but I really think if the leaker is a clerk and gets caught they’ll be at least disbarred for life. Probably some prison time too, that likely will be turned into probation.

[farmguy]

‘I’m still working on my undergrad in gender.’

I studied gender while I was an undergrad
Well, actually I only studied one gender
... ever chance I got.

[Yo-Yo]

Maybe I am too optimistic, but I really think if the leaker is a clerk and gets caught they’ll be at least disbarred for life. Probably some prison time too, that likely will be turned into probation.

They may well get disbarred for life, but they will also become the darling of the Left and will soon get rich from the speaking fees and book deals that will be thrown at them.

I forget who said it, but I heard someone on Fox News say that they will inherit the "James Dean Chair."

[KierkegaardMAN]

We have a comprehensive list of criminals from ballot stuffing, to suicide by a .25 behind the ear to fabricated subpoenas by a federal judge. Consequences? Hells to the no.