{"id":2567417,"date":"2026-02-07T14:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-courts-new-anti-leak-measures-are-a-good-start\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T14:12:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:12:31","slug":"supreme-courts-new-anti-leak-measures-are-a-good-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-courts-new-anti-leak-measures-are-a-good-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court&#8217;s New Anti-Leak Measures Are A Good Start"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fsupreme-courts-new-anti-leak-measures-are-a-good-start%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=2567417&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>The piece discusses the U.S. Supreme court\u2019s handling of leaks and threats surrounding Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health organization and argues for stronger safeguards, accountability, and congressional action to protect the judiciary\u2019s deliberative process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It describes the 2022 leak of a draft Dobbs opinion, the public outrage, threats against justices, and protests at judges\u2019 homes, highlighting the risk to the court\u2019s deliberations and the peopel involved.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It notes a separate violent incident in which Nicholas Roske attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home; Roske was sentenced to eight years by Judge Deborah Boardman, a decision the piece endorses as necessary given the threat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; the article reports that the leaker remains unidentified, while Chief Justice John Roberts implemented nondisclosure agreements for clerks and Supreme Court staff to curb future leaks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It questions how enforceable these agreements are, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >potential legal remedies<\/a> the Court could pursue, and whether 28 U.S.C. \u00a7 455 recusal requirements or injunctions could address leaks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The author argues for stronger criminal penalties for leaks, including penalties for leakers within the Court, and even contemplates impeachment and removal of justices if they violate their oath by leaking confidential details.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; It emphasizes the importance of deliberate, confidential deliberation for the judiciary and criticizes attacks on justices and their families, including protests and threats, urging additional protections and accountability.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The piece concludes by underscoring the judiciary\u2019s essential role and endorsing further steps to safeguard the deliberative process, with the author, Will Chamberlain, noting his position as Senior Counsel at the article III Project.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Supreme Court has a plumbing problem: leaks all over the place. In May 2022, a traitor within the Supreme Court family leaked a draft opinion in&nbsp;<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&rsquo;s Health Organization<\/em>, the case that&nbsp;properly restored&nbsp;the issue of abortion to its rightful place: the states. <\/p>\n<p>Outrage erupted from leftists after the leak. Justices received death threats, and protesters even came to justices&rsquo;&nbsp;homes. Some degenerates hit a new low by agitating for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/pro-choice-group-ruth-sent-us-suggests-targeting-amy-coney-barretts-children\/#:~:text=protesters%20to%20show%20up%20at%20Amy%20Coney%20Barrett's%20children's%20school&amp;text=Justice%20Amy%20Coney%20Barrett%20with%20protests%20against%20the%20court's%20leaked\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">protests<\/a> at the school of Justice Amy Coney Barrett&rsquo;s children.<\/p>\n<p>The direst consequence came about when Nicholas Roske, a deranged, gender-confused leftist, tried to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-issues-crushing-ruling-against-j6-prosecutors-vacates-judgement-of-dc-circuit-court\/\" title=\"SCOTUS Issues Crushing Ruling Against J6 Prosecutors, Vacates Judgement of DC Circuit Court\">justice&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s&nbsp;home <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/ag\/media\/1414626\/dl?inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">with his family present<\/a>. Judge Deborah Boardman, a rabid leftist Biden appointee, made the Roske affair even worse when she imposed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/nicholas-roske-sentenced-over-eight-years-prison-attempted-murder-supreme-court-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pathetic sentence<\/a> of eight years, about a quarter of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/department-justice-issues-sentencing-memo-2022-attempted-murder-supreme-court-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">what the prosecution had requested<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/07\/congress-should-impeach-the-judge-who-gave-would-be-mass-scotus-assassin-just-eight-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">because<\/a> Roske &mdash; who calls himself Sophie &mdash; will have to serve his time in a men&rsquo;s prison (as he should).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The leaker has not been found, but Chief Justice John Roberts has acted to curtail future leaks by implementing a policy requiring clerks and Supreme Court staff to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maricopa-county-audit-observers-to-sign-nondisclosure-agreements\/\" title=\"Maricopa County audit observers to sign nondisclosure ...\">sign nondisclosure agreements<\/a>. Employees are forbidden from&nbsp;disclosing&nbsp;confidential material, such as drafts of opinions and memoranda through which justices communicate during the deliberative process. It is shameful that we have sunk so low that these agreements are necessary. Every clerk and SCOTUS employee takes a solemn oath. That oath meant nothing to the scoundrel who&nbsp;leaked&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;draft. It also means nothing to the individuals who leak material about court deliberations to the media. Chief Justice Roberts&rsquo;&nbsp;heart is in the right place, but he can only do so much.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How will these agreements be enforced? Will the Supreme Court sue anyone who leaks? All justices may well need to recuse under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/28\/455\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">28 U.S.C.&nbsp;&sect;&nbsp;455<\/a> if such a suit were to reach the Supreme Court. Would the justices issue injunctions to prevent leaks? Without enforceability mechanisms, agreements are mere paper tigers. <\/p>\n<p>Those who place no value on an oath and who have seen no accountability for the&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;leaker may well decide that the risk of leaking is worth it. First, they may not get caught. The&nbsp;<em>Dobbs<\/em>&nbsp;traitor has&nbsp;remained&nbsp;at large for more than three years. Second, what would the consequences be&nbsp;were&nbsp;a leaker caught? Because of federalism, the Supreme Court cannot force states, for instance, to&nbsp;disbar&nbsp;leaking former clerks who are licensed to practice in those states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Congressional intervention is&nbsp;appropriate in&nbsp;this area. Criminal penalties are&nbsp;warranted&nbsp;for these leakers. The corrupt bureaucrat who leaked President Trump&rsquo;s tax returns during his first term <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/01\/30\/1227826718\/ex-irs-contractor-sentenced-to-5-years-in-prison-for-leaking-trumps-tax-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received five years<\/a> in prison. The same punishment should befall any Supreme Court leakers, if not a harsher one. The illegal disclosure of President Trump&rsquo;s tax returns was disgraceful, but it did not nearly cost a justice and his family their lives.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The agreements also do not bind justices, who can leak freely to the media. Chief Justice Roberts can do little about&nbsp;a justice&nbsp;who does so. Congress can, however,&nbsp;starting&nbsp;with impeachment and removal from office. The criminal penalties that apply to leakers should include&nbsp;justices.&nbsp;Justices must not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/czechs-warned-they-could-be-jailed-for-supporting-russia-on-social-media\/\" title=\"Czechs Warned They Could Be Jailed for Supporting Russia on Social Media\">face criminal liability<\/a> for their decisions; those acts are absolutely immune from criminal and civil liability.&nbsp;There should be no immunity, however, if a justice violates his or her sacred oath by leaking confidential information for any reason. The horrific episode involving Justice Kavanaugh amply justifies these harsh remedies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has august power. From our Second Amendment rights to abortion to affirmative action,&nbsp;the justices&nbsp;shape our society in countless ways. Deliberation is an essential&nbsp;component&nbsp;of the judicial process. We have nine justices so that the court reaches decisions after careful discussion.&nbsp;Justices should feel free to deliberate without fear that their communications will wind up on the front page of the paper. Justices should not be deluged by protesters at their homes, a crime that the Biden administration shamefully refused to prosecute&nbsp;pursuant to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/18\/1507\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">18 U.S.C.&nbsp;&sect;&nbsp;1507<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Justices&rsquo;&nbsp;children should not have their school days ruined by maniacs who disagree with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-alito-moves-up-deadline-for-supreme-court-briefing-in-pennsylvania-lawsuit-to-flip-the-election\/\" title=\"... Alito Moves Up Deadline For Supreme Court Briefing in Pennsylvania Lawsuit to Flip the Election\">court&#038;rsquo<\/a>;s decisions. Justices and their families should not be forced into a situation where they need 24-hour security because a leaker is angry at a pending decision. Justices and their families should never have to fear for their lives because of vermin like Roske, who wanted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/ag\/media\/1414626\/dl?inline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to kill three justices<\/a> to reshape the balance of the court. The judiciary is essential to the republic, and Chief Justice Roberts has taken an excellent step in safeguarding the hallowed deliberative process. More, however, can and must be done.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Will Chamberlain is currently Senior Counsel at the Article III Project and the Internet Accountability Project. Follow him on X at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/willchamberlain\">@willchamberlain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTUS leaks threaten deliberations after Dobbs draft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2981,"featured_media":2567418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Copy-of-Untitled-17.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[73261,13952,32275],"class_list":["post-2567417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-anti-leak-measures","tag-leaks","tag-supreme-court"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Copy-of-Untitled-17.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567417","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\/2981"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2567417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2567422,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567417\/revisions\/2567422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2567418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2567417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2567417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2567417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}