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.
Tag: Roberts, John G Jr
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How the Supreme Court Became ‘Intoxicated With Its Power’
Three lawyers discuss what the leak says about the politics of the Supreme Court — and predict where we may go from here.
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Draft Opinion Overturning Roe Raises a Question: Are More Precedents Next?
The legal reasoning that the Supreme Court’s conservative bloc is considering to end abortion rights could uproot a series of other past rulings that created modern rights.
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Roberts and Alito, Once Close Allies, Have Taken Divergent Paths
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. have become emblems of a stark divide at the Supreme Court as it confronts whether to overturn Roe v. Wade.
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Supreme Court Marshal Takes Up Leak Investigation as Theories Swirl
Not since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein refused for decades to disclose the identity of their Watergate source has Washington been as eager to unmask a leaker.