Alito says Supreme Court leak made justices 'targets for assassination'

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Alito says Supreme Court leak made justices 'targets for assassination'
by Jack Birle, Breaking News Reporter |
October 25, 2022 09:35

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the leaked draft opinion in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization case that went public in May made the justices "targets for assassination."

The conservative member of the high court shared his assessment at an event hosted by the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday.

"It was a grave betrayal of trust by somebody. And it was a shock because nothing like that had happened in the past. So it certainly changed the atmosphere at the court for the remainder of last term," Alito said.

"The leak also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority and supportive of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us, and we know that a man has been charged with attempting to kill Justice [Brett] Kavanaugh. It's a pending case. So I won't say anything more about that," he added.
 
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Just a reminder from 2020:

In rare rebuke, Chief Justice Roberts slams Schumer for 'threatening' comments
"You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," the senator from New York said of Trump appointees to the bench.
March 4, 2020, 5:09 PM EST / Updated March 5, 2020, 7:11 AM EST
By Pete Williams

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts publicly chastised Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer on Wednesday over comments Schumer made outside the Supreme Court as the justices were hearing a case on abortion rights.

Schumer, D-N.Y., suggested that President Donald Trump's court appointees, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, "won't know what hit" them if they vote to uphold abortion restrictions. He spoke during a rally on the sidewalk in front of the court building.

"I want to tell you, Gorsuch, I want to tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price," Schumer said.

In a highly unusual written statement issued late Wednesday, Roberts said, "Statements of this sort from the highest levels of government are not only inappropriate, they are dangerous." ...

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Schumer, like everyone else on the left (apparently), is just itching for an assassination.

 And why hasn't the leaker yet been identified?

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UPDATE

Wall St. Journal reporter tweets:

Sadie Gurman
@sgurman
NEW: Supreme Court investigators probing the May leak of the draft opinion overruling Roe v. Wade have narrowed their inquiry to a small number of suspects including law clerks, but have yet to conclusively identify the alleged culprit.

With its own police having little experience in complex investigations, the court brought in assistance from outside government investigators, people familiar with the matter said. By early summer, investigators had significantly narrowed the field of suspects, the people said.

The interviews were sometimes short and superficial, a person familiar said, consisting of a handful of questions such as “Did you do it? Do you know anyone who had a reason to do it?” Investigators relied in part on publicly available information on employees to develop theories.

I can't get to the story because you have to register at WSJ, but here's the link to what she's written:  https://www.wsj.com/articles/supreme-court-investigators-have-narrowed-leak-inquiry-to-small-number-of-suspects-11673635774?mod=panda_wsj_author_alert