Posted on 04/30/2023 8:40:14 AM PDT by Morgana
Justice Samuel Alito has a “pretty good idea” who leaked the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health organization draft, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Alito revealed in an interview with the WSJ that he believes he knows who is responsible for the Dobbs decision leak that sparked months of protests outside conservative justices’ homes and an attempt to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, though he said that is “different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody.”
The motive, he said, was to prevent the draft from becoming the decision: “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.”
As to left-wing accusations that the leaker was a conservative trying to lock in a favorable majority, Alito told the WSJ the argument is “infuriating.”
“Look, this made us targets of assassination,” he said. “Would I do that to myself? Would the five of us have done that to ourselves? It’s quite implausible.”
“It was rational for people to believe that they might be able to stop the decision in Dobbs by killing one of us,” Alito told the WSJ.
Nevertheless, Alito said the marshal tasked with investigating the leak “did a good job with the resources that were available to her” and said he does not feel physically unsafe “because we now have a lot of protection.”
After interviewing nearly 100 employees, the marshall of the Supreme Court said in her January findings that investigators had been “unable to determine at this time, using a preponderance of the evidence standard, the identity of the person(s) who disclosed the draft majority opinion.”
Alito also addressed increased attacks on the Court’s legitimacy, though he would not speak directly to accusations that Clarence Thomas violated ethics rules.
“We are being hammered daily, and I think quite unfairly in a lot of instances,” he said. “And nobody, practically nobody, is defending us.”
I do too but want to hear it confirmed.
Puts Roberts in the Leftist bloc.
I wish he’d leak the name so we all would know. I’ve got an idea who it is also.
What is infuriating is that the Biden DOJ refused to make any arrests of protesters at the Justices’ homes, or to investigate who was responsible for leaking the addresses of the Justices to begin with.
Why is it that people on the right are so passive and meek when it comes to exposing the left?
The Supreme Court leaker...nothing.
Epstein’s client list...nothing
J6 tapes...nothing
The Nashville trans-terrorist manifesto...nothing
Las Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock (2017)...nothing
It seems to never end.
If it was up to G W MORON, Harriet Miers would be sitting in that seat instead of Alito.
https://lawandcrime.com/supreme-court/chief-justices-year-end-report-has-a-heavy-focus-on-security-but-it-says-nothing-about-the-dobbs-leak/
"In the report, which is released every year as the Supreme Court’s answer to the State of the Union, Roberts focused heavily on the importance of judicial security — but he said exactly nothing about the biggest security scandal in recent high court history."
Alito knows exactly who did it. He has known for months and he is frustrated Roberts is sitting on it and letting the little rat get away with it. It could even be Roberts. It is worth noting he put Roberts in with the Marx sisters.
Alito should have picked a trustworthy journalist, and arranged to be called away from his desk during the interview, leaving the journalist to browse through the file he left on his desk.
Why is it that people on the right are so passive and meek when it comes to exposing the left?
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Great question. The Right is big on talk but small on actions.
The Left is more determined to get their way.
In any struggle, those with the greatest will to win usually do. Just saying.
Libtards fbi doj etc leak with impunity day in day out using their buddies in the fake media
There was a liberal SCOTUS’ clerk that was ID’ed as the source when it came out. She had links to the journalist that released it through her husband. Don’t remember the name now, but it was all over twitter until it was censored.
“...she’s the Judge formerly known as
The Wise Latina. Sonia Sotomayor, Remove Your Mask!!”
If that person is named, that person and their offspring gets martyred by the Left and job security for the rest of their lives. Just think “deep throat.”
I wish to hear the name confirmed as well.
Perhaps I’m too cynical, but if he is sure, I would leak the name of the leaker.
Let them have a taste of media focus and abuse for a while. Maybe the taint will even destroy their future legal career.
When self-restraint, mutually accepted common culture and civil discourse are destroyed, at least there is mutually assured destruction that can keep the peace.
We know this much - if the person leaking had been a Republican the corrupt thugs in the FBI would have found the person and leaked the information to 'the press' within the first 24 hours...
Then the corrupt 'DNC owned' press would have run with the story as long as democrats wanted them to run with it...
Schiff!
Okaaaaaaaaaay, so, tell the rest of us.
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