Posted on 04/29/2023 3:07:40 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said that he has a “pretty good” idea who was behind the leak of the court’s decision on overturning Roe v. Wade — and that the leak made the justices targets for possible assassination.
Alito, who authored the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision that ruled there is no constitutional right to abortion, made the comments in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
“I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible, but that’s different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody,” Alito said: “It was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft … from becoming the decision of the court. And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.”
Alito said that the Supreme Court “did a good job with the resources that were available,” but said that the evidence was not strong enough for an official designation of guilt.
The conservative justice added that the leak not only brought an environment of “suspicion and distrust,” but also danger.
“Those of us who were thought to be in the majority, thought to have approved my draft opinion, were really targets of assassination,” Alito said. “It was rational for people to believe that they might be able to stop the decision in Dobbs by killing one of us.”
He also called it infuriating that some people believed a conservative justice may have leaked the decision. “Look, this made us targets of assassination. Would I do that to myself? Would the five of us have done that to ourselves? It’s quite implausible.”
The court was ultimately undeterred by the pressure and voted to overturn Roe.
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“...report it...”
He appears to be withholding his conclusion based on the facts that the investigators were able to uncover.
Not that he is withholding any salient facts.
You are being way too tough on Alito IMHO. Which makes you Epps-like.
For every last one of the clerks and staff. Deny them references.
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Roberts
Stop defending government, and also accusing everyone of being a glowie. This is another example of .gov getting away with privilege, why the Justices weren’t part of the investigation. Such a double standard. Now the leaker gets away with it, and everything is forgotten.
“ You seem to be advocating for the abandonment of the rule of law.”
How cute. You still think we have the rule of law.
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He just said, by means of a question, that he and those of his colleagues that constituted a deciding majority in Dobbs are not responsible for the leak of the Dobbs draft.>>> The case was decided 6 -3 he said the five of us leaving one of the other 4 as the possible leaker. That might include Roberts in the 4.
I thought it was Roberts who yelled "YOU LIE!" to Obama.
” and that the leak made the justices targets for possible assassination.”
At least Alito seems to understand how dangerous the Left is and how they would resort to murder to replace justices. Maybe he thinks that is what happened to Scalia?
You did not actually advocate administrating an extra-legal death penalty, but instead are only unfairly maligning a justice, perhaps this non-denial denial on your part can be taken at face value.
SCOTUS Justices constitute a distinct branch of the Federal Government, coequal with the other branches. Leaking the draft Dobbs decision was a violation of the court’s internal procedures that Alito (its author) is saying was deliberate and strategic. He and his nine colleagues, together constituting an entire branch of the U.S. government, are without question the absolute, unappealable bosses of the investigators. As such they are fully within their rights to refrain from obliging themselves to answer investigators’ questions. Alito has now gone further and effectively publicly denied complicity, not only for his part, but also for the part of Justices Gorsuch, Thomas, Kavanaugh and Barrett. He has thus helpfully narrowed the list down to the Chief Justice, Kagan, Jackson and Sotomayor. Asking more of him at this point seems to be tantamount to unfairly isolating and targeting him—the very Justice whose life has been in most danger. That seems completely wrong and unfair.
Agree. See my #39.
All you are doing is defending .gov and every point. Not only is the SC not a coequal branch of .gov, they are subject to certain Congressional conditions. Those aren't a topic for now, but the SC Marshal, on Roberts command did a investigation. The Justices were not part of that investigation. That is a example of a lawless country.
Alito has chosen to not reveal anything, even after his family was in danger. He's a loser.
Congressman said “you lie” Alito said “not true”
And you can count on the justices defending their staff.
I worked for a state appellate court for over 30 years, I know how this works. The Supremes are just more so.
A SCOTUS justice knows this and there’s no one to follow up on it?
My bet is on Sotomayor. Kagan’s politics and view of the law are reprehensible in my opinion, but she does have an understanding of the rule of law. Sotomayor has not demonstrated that she has any such fundamental principles.
“Not only is the SC not a coequal branch of .gov, they are subject to certain Congressional conditions.”
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SC is indeed a coequal branch of the Federal Government.
The President (Branch II) nominates, and the Judiciary Committee of the Senate (half of Branch I) advises and consents, but once an SC Justice is sworn in, they are independent and in office for life, subject only to being removed by means of impeachment (as is the President), and having his vote diluted by means of subsequent expansion of SCOTUS to include more total members (similar to members of the House via an increase in the U.S. population, and members of the Senate via an increase in the number of states in the union).
Yes, it is a scary prospect....a crazed leftist murders one of the conservative justices and Biden names the replacement.
Would we allow this or would we stand together against such a fabricated event?
You know it would be orchestrated by the FBI.
If they get away with it, abortion is restored, firearm ownership ends and nothing matters.
NFN but Justice Jackson admits that she does not know what a Woman is...
So there’s that. 🤔🤨
Especially considering, it states that the Constitution that Chief Justice shall preside over a impeachment, thus the SC was outside the coequal powers of the Constitution, for good or bad.
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