Posted on 05/03/2022 9:35:58 AM PDT by dennisw
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said Tuesday that the leaked draft opinion proposing to overturn Roe v. Wade is authentic but not final, and that he is opening an investigation into how it became public.
“To the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the Court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed,” Roberts said. “The work of the Court will not be affected in any way.”
While Roberts’s statement said the draft provided to Politico was genuine, “it does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.”
Supreme Court is ready to strike down Roe v. Wade, leaked draft opinion shows The Politico report said that five justices had decided to uphold a Mississippi law that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, and overturn the decision that established a constitutional right to abortion nearly 50 years ago.
Roberts’s news release was another extraordinary deviation from the court’s normal procedures, which generally entails paying no attention to outside influences. It was a sign that Roe v. Wade is too important, and the breach of Supreme Court operations too monumental, to ignore.
Majority of Americans say Supreme Court should uphold Roe, new Post-ABC poll finds Republican politicians in particular have called for an investigation into the leak, which some have seen as an attempt to put pressure on justices who may be inclined to strike down Roe instead to modify their decisions.
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The purpose of this is to give the Democrats an issue for the midterm elections.
Politically this is a terrible time for the right to be bringing this up because it distracts from Biden's incompetence which is why I think Roberts himself decided to bring the case before the court and then to leak it
This is the best way to help the Democrats
It has become impossible to have a fair judiciary in America.
They are overrun by a bunch of crooks and extremist lunatics. You cannot continue a representative form of government when the laws are “made” by unelected judges who ignore the clear language of statutes and the U.S. Constitution.
You can’t elect people to govern when they are ignored by lifetime-appointed extremist-activists in robes who have seized power they were never granted.
You also cannot have a voice in government when elections are rigged as they are now in America.
Funny story —
Years ago I heard about a security audit where I worked. The auditor asked a guy to log into a particular system to verify some data. The guy stretched out his hand to a drawer on his desk ...
Auditor: “Are you reaching for the password that you have written down?”
Guy: “Uhhhhhhh ...”
Auditor: “If you are writing down your passwords, it’s bad. If you lie about writing down your passwords, it’s VERY bad.”
Guy: “I write down my passwords.”
Auditor: “Okay. Now please log into that system and we’ll see what else we find.”
“We’re opening an investigation into how Sotomayor leaked this opinion.”
Can’t trust him and it would not surprise me if the final vote ends up not overturning RvW. I pray not but look at what Robert’s did with Obamacare.
Russia. Russia. Russia.
They better check all the clerks from the R justices. Who else would have a reason to leak this to Politico? This could remain a mystery.
Perhaps. But the execution of their plan, IMO, was timed to do the most damage—the day before the Ohio primary
Good point. Thanks.
We all know it was leaked by a corrupt libtard 🤪
So Roberts is the leaker?
The buck stops with him.
He’s definitely responsible, it’s his court, but did he actually leak it or have someone else do it? If so, time to step down.
What would be an appropriate punishment?
I believe that any judge or justice has the unquestioned ability to lock anyone up for contempt of court for as long as it takes to remedy the contempt.
If congress has the power to lock up people freely admitted into the Hallowed Halls for a perceived slight, the Supreme Court has the same sort of authority for deliberate and malicious disclosure of privileged documents.
But only until the contempt is remedied, of course.
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Roberts only needs to ask old flipper.
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“Opens investigation.”
Maybe the FBI, Peter Strozk, and the FISA court will help him get to the very bottom of this . . .
Maybe the timing was to allow them to pack the court before they lose control of all three branches in November.
My theory is that Roberts or someone on his staff leaked the opinion at the "request" of the Deep State.
Somehow I think one or more of the liberal justices “leaked” this information when they saw they would lose. If this is so and discovered, the leakers should ALL be removed.
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