Posted on 05/03/2022 5:30:37 AM PDT by Red Badger
Published draft opinion shocks officials in Washington, prompts speculation about leaker's motive.
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The CIA's "Family Jewels." Edward Snowden's revelations on surveillance and a FISA warrant. Former President Donald Trump's private conversations with world leaders. And now a purported draft Supreme Court opinion on abortion.
Two decades of endless and consequential leaks have left behind a trail of institutional betrayal that have rocked Washington, and sometimes the world.
Some believe the most recent leak was an effort to sabotage the Supreme Court's final opinion on what may be a landmark abortion case if the documents published Monday night by Politico are true.
"I think it's plainly an attempt by the left to try and change the outcome in this case and corrupt the process, and the court must not allow that to happen," Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) declared to Fox News' Sean Hannity.
Shocking confidential revelations to the media date to the Watergate era, when military analyst Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers detailing the U.S.'s involvement in Vietnam on the front page of The New York Times in 1971.
The "Family Jewels" were slowly leaked from 1974 until their formal release in 2007. The CIA files documented a quarter-century of U.S. assassination attempts and infiltration of radical groups, among other things.
In 2013, National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden released documents detailing the surveillance of law-abiding U.S. citizens.
Trump was plagued by leaked phone calls throughout his time in office, including a call with the Ukrainian president that led to Trump's first impeachment.
On Monday, Politico published a purported draft of the majority opinion from the Supreme Court that suggests the court voted to overturn the landmark abortion precedent Roe v. Wade. This would be the first-ever major leak from the Supreme Court.
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told Hannity on Monday night that he thinks that the opinion was leaked by someone seeking to change the case's outcome.
"I strongly oppose overruling Roe vs. Wade after 50 years, but I think it will be overruled," he said, adding that he was "less skeptical" of the opinion than host Sean Hannity.
"I have a theory, and it's only a theory," said Dershowitz. "I think this was leaked by a liberal law clerk who was trying to change the outcome of the case, either by putting pressure on some of the justices to change their mind, or by getting Congress to pack the court even before June, which is very unlikely, or to get Congress to pass a national right-to-abortion law, which would apply to all the states, and that would have to come to the Supreme Court to see whether that could be upheld under the Commerce Clause.
"But I think this is real, and ... my theory is that it was leaked by somebody who wants to change the outcome," the liberal attorney said. "Look, I've been watching Supreme Court for 55 years. And this has all the hallmarks of reality and it does not have the hallmark of a decision that's likely to be changed. Maybe Chief Justice Roberts will go with the minority, but I think they seem to have five votes at this point to overrule Roe vs. Wade."
Other commentators agreed with Hawley and Dershowitz.
"The leak of the alleged early draft opinion from the Court to Politico continues the Marxist war on the Constitution and the civil society," radio host Mark Levin wrote.
The director of the pro-court-packing group Demand Justice applauded the leak and speculated that it could be an attempt to have the SCOTUS majority change its mind.
"Is a brave clerk taking this unpredecented step of leaking a draft opinion to warn the country what's coming in a last-ditch Hail Mary attempt to see if the public response might cause the Court to reconsider?" Brian Fallon tweeted.
The opinion, if factual, would completely change abortion laws across the country.
Justice Samuel Alito, on behalf of the majority in the Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health, reportedly wrote: "We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. The constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey now chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
The vast majority of “leaks” have been to inflict damage on constitutionalists.
This leak is about getting Dems to the polls to vote Dem.
This leak isn’t about abortion rights any more than CoupFlu is about public health.
The American form of government was designed for a moral people. It has failed because we are no longer a moral people.
People were “shocked” — and yet they had already planned the demonstration and printed up the signs.
AND everybody just decided to show up simultaneously.....................
Yep, and once again women will ruin the day.
Chief “justice” Epstein Roberts says SCOTUS
will now institute a new TAX on its
captive Americans and the Trans-Humans
because of this, with ALL money to go
to his controllers in Malta.
BUMP
I’m a chick.
I don’t resemble that remark.
And if women still were reliably ‘Rat, Deep State wouldn’t have to resort to Kabuki theater and wouldn’t have to steal elections, would it...?
A. Breyer.
And Deep State wouldn’t be so keen on keeping that pic of Hillary with the muzzled black guy kneeling at her feet off the enemedia.
As a FR female, you know women vote more for Democrats than men, yes?
You know largely women vote with regards to pro abortion?
Do you not find this leak and timing odd?
When speaking in generalities, it doesn’t mean every single one. I think you know that.
Even the SC has now been tainted by this first of its kind leak in our History.
Why isn’t Chief Justice Roberts calling for an investigation? Why isn’t he calling
for the arrest of the leaker or leakers?
Moral also implies veracity, which Rats don’t give squat about.
SIMPLE: 1) Pressure justices 2) Activate the pro-abortion activist mob who will garner 24/7 media attention and the media will scare people ( covid strategy) to get out and vote in the midterms to support dems ad stop the destruction of the universe.
I’m gonna go with this. It all seems wonderfully convenient doesn’t it? The Dems are drowning in a sea of unpopularity. Poof!! Suddenly the “war on women” appears to save the day. Or so they think.
Leak? I am going with elaborate and coordinated hoax. Written in the form of an opinion to sound like Alito, footnotes and all. It isn’t hard to do this. Any appellate lawyer that has ever clerked could.
Sounds too authentic you say? Ok, but didn’t Russian Collusion or the “science” behind backing lockdowns?
What evidence do we have towards either conclusion, leak vs. hoax?
Usually an elaborate hoax has some kind of screwup in the details. So far I haven’t heard of a single one. Also, SCOTUS is silent -—> they wouldn’t be silent if it were a hoax. Look at how they act: Are they aghast at the first leak in SCOTUS history, or are they scratching their heads at an obvious forgery?
The hyper corruption of all institutions started in earnest with Obozo and the fundamental transformation in 2009.
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