Legal experts said that the justice’s disclosure of the sale, which came right after the justice’s appointment, did not violate the law but underscored the need for ethics reforms.
In the leaked draft, Justice Samuel Alito made assertions about fetal development, abortion procedures and international laws that were disputed or omitted context.
No law or written code of conduct prescribes how an investigation into the leak of a draft opinion should proceed, or whether journalists will be swept into it.