[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."

[EEGator]

Clerks are not lawyers.

[Krosan]

“will soon get rich from the speaking fees and book deals”

A lot of competition in that circle already. They’d have to push some existing player out and Ivy law-nerds don’t have the charisma for that.

[Reno89519]

I think this goes beyond the pale and should rightfully bother all justices and party hacks that their private deliberations are exposed. What if next it is Sotomayor's deliberations revealed, maybe showing overt bias and bigotry trumping legal reasoning? It will only confirm what we already know, but putting it on public display would be damaging, maybe lead to calls for her to recuse herself or resign.

Someone violated the trust they were given, they need to be found and held fully accountable. Otherwise, they system and trust fail and we will see repeats.

[DiogenesLamp]

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.

A lot of states have passed laws which prohibit a criminal from getting wealth as a consequence of their crimes.

If the US Congress has not passed such a law, then when Republicans take over, I think they should.

No money for her. This is how you fight. You *hurt* the enemy and thereby discourage other people to be your enemy.

"Let us conduct ourselves so that all men wish to be our friends and all fear to be our enemies.

Alexander the Great