{"id":1465050,"date":"2022-05-05T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465050"},"modified":"2022-05-05T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T16:30:41","slug":"bill-barr-says-scotus-may-need-special-counsel-to-out-leaker-floats-criminal-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bill-barr-says-scotus-may-need-special-counsel-to-out-leaker-floats-criminal-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Barr Says SCOTUS May Need Special Counsel To Out Leaker, Floats Criminal Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbill-barr-says-scotus-may-need-special-counsel-to-out-leaker-floats-criminal-charges%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1465050&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/Bill-Barr.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former Attorney General Bill Barr said that Chief Justice John Roberts may have to arrange for a special counsel to investigate and identify who leaked a Supreme Court draft decision this week.<\/p>\n<p>Barr appeared on SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=G_1TFY4O0VA\">show<\/a> on Tuesday to discuss the Monday leak of a Supreme Court draft potentially overturning Roe v. Wade, a controversial 1973 decision that created federal protections for abortion procedures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was flabbergasted,\u201d Barr said, reacting to the leak. \u201cIt really is unprecedented. Our institutions have become increasingly politicized, but I never imagined this could happen to the Supreme Court, which has always protected its confidentiality. And for someone to let this out in order to influence the final decision is really beyond the pale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr said that Roberts, who confirmed the authenticity of the draft document on Tuesday, may need to appoint a special counsel to identify the leaker. The former attorney general said he believes that criminal charges are likely necessary in order \u201cto compel the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barr said that the leaker could potentially be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. \u201cObstruction means you\u2019re attempting to influence, you know, through some kind of wrongdoing. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a stretch\u201d to prosecute the leaker under that charge, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the chief would have had the option, and perhaps he still will, to appoint a special counsel. Not in the classical criminal sense, but the court can appoint a counsel and he could bring in a former U.S. attorney or someone with a criminal law background. And I\u2019m sure he would get the support he needed from the FBI or any other law enforcement agency,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also guessed that the leaker is most likely the clerk of a liberal court justice.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI suspect it was a law clerk,\u201d he said, before explaining why a conservative justice\u2019s clerk is unlikely to be the leaker. \u201cI don\u2019t think a conservative clerk would have put this out with the idea that this would somehow shore up a wobbly judge. This is gonna be a controversial decision if it came out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The leaked draft, a decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson\u2019s Women\u2019s Health, if made final, would overturn the decision in Roe and send greater authority over abortion laws to state legislatures and Congress. Barr said that many have misunderstood the impact of such a decision to mean that abortion would be banned nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat opinion, if it were to be the final opinion, isn\u2019t saying you have to prohibit abortion, it\u2019s saying this is a matter for the states to decide, and a very high proportion of our states are going to permit abortions. There may be reasonable regulation and time periods, but it\u2019s not going to prohibit it nationwide,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd what we hear is, well, somebody in Idaho is going to have to go to California to get an abortion. Well, that\u2019s what we get living in a federal republic where states are sovereign and can set the rules for the people of their state,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd if people don\u2019t like the rules in Idaho, they don\u2019t necessarily have to move, but they might have to go to California to get an abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the price we pay for federalism and it\u2019s well worth the price. The alternative, which is to say the law has to be exactly the same throughout the country, as I say, that creates a pressure cooker and that\u2019s one of the problems we have today,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Attorney General Bill Barr said that Chief Justice John Roberts may have to arrange for a special counsel to investigate and identify who leaked a Supreme Court draft decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":1481726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1465050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1481726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1465050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1465050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1465050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}