{"id":1497935,"date":"2022-05-31T10:59:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497935"},"modified":"2022-05-31T10:59:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:59:57","slug":"scotus-turning-up-the-heat-in-probe-of-roe-draft-opinion-leak-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-turning-up-the-heat-in-probe-of-roe-draft-opinion-leak-report\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS Turning Up The Heat In Probe Of Roe Draft Opinion Leak: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fscotus-turning-up-the-heat-in-probe-of-roe-draft-opinion-leak-report%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=1497935&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--><p>Officials affiliated with the Supreme Court are reportedly intensifying their investigation into the leak of the draft opinion that would overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, allegedly causing law clerks working for SCOTUS justices to consider obtaining legal counsel.<\/p>\n<p>New steps taken by the Court reportedly include obtaining law clerks\u2019 cell phone records and signed affidavits, according to sources providing information to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/31\/politics\/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-leak-phone-records\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChief Justice John Roberts met with law clerks as a group after the breach,\u201d CNN reported, \u201cbut it is not known whether any systematic individual interviews have occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think an attorney, in the course of representation, could decide to speak to the press to promote his client\u2019s interests,\u201d Josh Blackman pointed out at <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2022\/05\/31\/cnn-scotus-investigation-demands-phone-records-from-clerks-who-must-sign-affidavits\/\">Reason<\/a>. \u201cBut there is an open question: does the attorney-client privilege survive in light of a duty of confidentiality to the Court? That is, could a clerk tell her attorney about some internal information in order to prepare a legal strategy? Could the Chief fire a clerk who confides in this lawyer?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is headed by the Supreme Court marshal, Colonel Gail Curley, who is \u201cin some ways constrained in her investigation by her position, which was created just after the Civil War, in 1867,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-leak-investigation-gail-curley-48623ac2a3bafe36f39bbf5f68257dbf\">AP<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExperts say leaking the draft opinion likely wasn\u2019t a crime, and Curley\u2019s investigative tools are limited,\u201d AP continued. \u201cShe could theoretically hire an outside law firm to assist, and in other judicial records cases the FBI has been called in. But it isn\u2019t clear if she or others have the power to issue subpoenas to get material from journalists or the fewer than 100 people in the court \u2014 including justices \u2014 with access to a draft opinion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the leak of the draft opinion on May 3, Chief Justice John Roberts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/03\/chief-justice-roberts-draft-abortion-opinion-00029593\">harshly criticized<\/a> the leak, calling it \u201ca singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here,\u201d adding that he had \u201cdirected the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the draft opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote bluntly:<\/p>\n<p><em>We hold that\u00a0Roe\u00a0and\u00a0Casey\u00a0(Planned Parenthood v. Casey) must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey chiefly rely \u2014 the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. \u2026 It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people\u2019s elected representatives.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials affiliated with the Supreme Court are reportedly intensifying their investigation into the leak of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, allegedly causing law clerks working for SCOTUS justices to consider obtaining legal counsel. 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