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America hasn't been lacking in abortion discourse in awhile. The leak potentially effected the outcome of both the decision and November's election -- more undermining of democracy.
It certainly influenced the election and undermined the judiciary, but I'm not sure it undermined democracy .
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"all employees who were requested to do so voluntarily provided call and text detail records and billing statements for their personal devices for a defined period to the best of their abilities. The investigators reviewed the call and text logs retrieved but found nothing relevant in the limited logs." All the other references that I can find look like they are limited to the Court's IT systems. That seems like it m…
Don’t the WaPo and NYT have anonymous submission sites for exactly this kind of thing?
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It is not the duty of the Supreme Court to follow public sentiment.
It’s the duty of the court to maintain the public’s trust in the institution: without that trust the law doesn’t matter very much. This court has not been doing that very well, as evidenced by sharp changes in the opinion polling. This leak, evidence that justices are sharing unpublished opinions with interested parties, and the current weak-tea investigation are only part of the problem. But they’re big problems.
However, there has been a growing push among some of our population that whatever is deemed popular today should be declared constitutional. That's just not how our system works - by design and for good reason.
The founders went to great lengths to ensure a populism movement could not change our federal government on a whim.
Populism movements, often based on emotional arguments rather than reality, change too rapidly and easily to form a stable platform for a long-lived government.
The erosion of public trust in the institution that is the SCOTUS is based purely on populism movements of late. Without going into specifics - the particular issues that are said to be causing this alleged erosion of trust are simply not Constitutional issues. Yet, the people demand it be so regardless... kind of the hallmark of a modern populist movement.
I remain convinced Alito leaked it himself to create a distraction
When I clerked for a judge (not on the Supreme Court), she sometimes asked me to write two draft opinions -- one where one side wins -- and another where the other side wins -- and she used those materials in drafting her ultimate opinion. There are so many different things going on in how judges write. I hope that they can get some _sense_ of security again so that they feel the freedom to be as open-minded as possi…
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Because he's done it before https://www.axios.com/2022/11/29/supreme-court-alito-ethics-...
I couldn’t find any evidence in that article? Just Alito and the Court denying he was responsible?
That's evidence. Testimony is evidence.