BREAKING: Supreme Court says it has been unable to identify the person who leaked an unpublished draft of an opinion indicating that the court was poised to roll back abortion rights.
of an opinion indicating the court was poised to roll back abortion rights.
In an attached report, Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley, who is in charge of the investigation, said that 97 court employees were interviewed and all denied being the leaker. She said it was unlikely the court's information technology systems were compromised. "If a court employee disclosed the draft opinion, that person brazenly violated a system that was built fundamentally on trust with limited safeguards to regulate and constrain access to very sensitive information," she added.
Washington was rocked in May of last year when Politico published a draft opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alito that indicated the court, which has a 6-3 conservative majority, was about to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark abortion rights ruling.
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