Marco Rubio bill proposes ‘serious penalties’ for SCOTUS leakers

[libertybele]

AG Garland does nothing .....

Marco Rubio bill proposes ‘serious penalties’ for SCOTUS leakers

A Florida Senator co-introduced legislation that would impose criminal penalties on those leaking Supreme Court confidential documents, including draft Supreme Court rulings, such as in an abortion rights case currently under review.

Sen. Marco Rubio teamed up with Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy and Mississippi’s Cindy Hyde-Smith to introduce the “Stop Supreme Court Leakers Act.”

This bill mandates a $10,000 fine and up to 10 years of prison time per count for those who leak confidential opinions, notes, communications, and non-public personal information, such as addresses, of Justices and staff. It would also ban leakers from profiting from their breach of court confidentiality.

“You shouldn’t receive a badge of honor or financial reward for leaking confidential documents from one of our nation’s most sacred institutions — you should face serious penalties,” Rubio said.

“The leak of a draft opinion of Dobbs not only undermined the integrity of our judicial system, but also continues to spur threats of violence against Supreme Court Justices and crisis pregnancy centers. This bill would ensure that leaked confidential information from the Supreme Court is a criminal offense.”

The legislation comes after weeks of grim warnings about people menacing conservative Justices in the hopes of shaking their draft position in the current Mississippi case testing that state’s ban on abortion after 15 weeks. That measure is a model for Florida law that recently took effect.

“My sense is that this leak was a strategically planned one, designed to get ahead of something and to generate exactly what you’re seeing, primarily to try to intimidate these Justices,” Rubio told Fox Business Network viewers in May, predicting the leaker would be hailed as a “hero on the left.”

Rubio wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland a week later.................

https://floridapolitics.com/archives/534827-marco-rubio-bill-proposes-serious-penalties-for-scotus-leakers/

[Hoodat]

What's the point when the current penalties for SCOTUS leakers aren't being enforced?  Every single SCOTUS staffer should have been subjected to a polygraph by now.  A list of those who had access to the draft should already be known.  Yet we are no closer to knowing the identity of the leaker than we were when it happened.

They damn well know who leaked it, and they are protecting him/her.

[Wingnut]

Maybe the Wise Latino leaked it.

[GtHawk]

What's the point when the current penalties for SCOTUS leakers aren't being enforced?  Every single SCOTUS staffer should have been subjected to a polygraph by now.  A list of those who had access to the draft should already be known.  Yet we are no closer to knowing the identity of the leaker than we were when it happened.

They damn well know who leaked it, and they are protecting him/her.

Just like democrats and RINOs pushing more gun laws when they refuse to enforce the ones already on the books. It's showtime with Water Boy!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITwvxx1yedA

[Kamaji]

It's entirely possible that the leak was intentional, in order to precondition the public to the release of the actual opinion.