On 5/3/2022, during senate hearing, “We’re about to find out what our Department of Justice is made of,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) said. “We have had an unprecedented leak. As despicable as it is dangerous.”
Republican Senator John Kennedy said he wants the DOJ to investigate whoever leaked the document and described that person as a “misguided zealot”. The leaker should be investigated by the FBI and criminally prosecuted. Sen Whitehouse said that executive branch has no jurisdiction has over Supreme Court and likely no law was broken anyway.
Politico said a draft opinion was circulated in February by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. The report said Alito, along with Justice Clarence Thomas and all three of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the court — Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — voted to overturn the precedent. The leak was an extreme breach of court protocol.
On 5/3/2022, Chief Justice John Roberts confirmed the draft’s authenticity — emphasizing that it was not a final opinion — and said he had ordered the marshal of the Supreme Court to investigate the “betrayal of confidence.”
Authored by conservative Justice Samuel Alito, an appointee of George W. Bush, the draft opinion amounted to rejection of Roe. Some legal scholars pointed out that it would raise significant questions about a slew of other Supreme Court precedents. Politico said a draft opinion was circulated in February by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. The report said Alito, along with Justice Clarence Thomas and all three of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the court — Justices Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett — voted to overturn the precedent. The leak was an extreme breach of court protocol.
The breach of a draft opinion is an unprecedented departure from the norms on the normally airtight court, which has stood out among government institutions as relatively impervious to unauthorized disclosures even in tumultuous times.
Democrats largely took an inverse approach, acknowledging concerns about the breach but pivoting quickly to the details of the opinion. They argued that their GOP colleagues’ laser focus on the disclosure itself is an acknowledgment that GOP views on abortion are unpopular with voters.
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