Supreme Court suffers ANOTHER LEAK, now to the liberal New York Times

[mystery-ak]

https://twitter.com/EricLDaugh/status/2046287208592666992

[BobfromWB]

Any information what the leak was?

[Hoodat]

Who was it last time?  Sotomayor?

[Cyber Liberty]

This is what Roberts deserves for not ferreting out and punishing the leaker who exposed Alito's Decision on Dobbs.

[Cyber Liberty]

Any information what the leak was?

Roberts will protect him/her again, just watch....

[rustynail]

Any information what the leak was?

The latest Supreme Court leak involves confidential internal memos about the court’s use of the “shadow docket,” published by The New York Times in April 2026. The leaked documents, dating back to 2016, reveal how justices, particularly under Chief Justice John Roberts, began using emergency procedures to issue major rulings without oral arguments or detailed public explanations—most notably in West Virginia v. EPA, where the court halted the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.

The leak exposes a shift in the court’s operations, with Roberts portrayed as actively pushing for rapid intervention despite objections from justices like Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, who questioned the unprecedented speed and lack of lower court review.  The memos suggest the shadow docket has evolved from a tool for urgent matters into a mechanism for shaping significant policy, raising concerns about transparency and accountability.

Additional context includes:

The leak follows Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s speech criticizing conservative justices for using the shadow docket to issue “utterly irrational” decisions.
This marks the second major breach under Roberts, after the 2022 Dobbs draft opinion leak that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Chief Justice Roberts has faced growing pressure to involve the FBI in investigations, as prior internal probes failed to identify leakers.
A forthcoming book by Mollie Hemingway also reveals internal tensions, including Justice Kagan allegedly screaming at Justice Breyer over dissent strategy after the Dobbs leak. (ai)

[Cyber Liberty]

Apparently this leak involves the Voting Rights Act, and if it's being leaked it's to stop a Decision that's good for our side.  DoJ had better step up security for the Justices, or there will be another assassination attempt!  Garland sat back and let it happen last time.

[mystery-ak]

JONATHAN TURLEY: Chief Justice Roberts could learn from baseball great Ted Williams when it comes to leaks
The New York Times published internal memos from justices on the use of the shadow docket to issue rulings
 By Jonathan Turley Fox News
Published April 19, 2026 8:06am EDT

The legendary baseball player and manager Ted Williams once wrote a letter to Angels outfielder Jay Johnstone on improving his hitting. Among his pieces of advice was that "with two strikes, you simply have to protect the plate."

Williams' advice on not striking out came to mind this week when another leak of confidential information rocked the Supreme Court. (The prior leak of the Dobbs decision went unsolved.) For Chief Justice John Roberts, the message is clear: it is times like these when you have to protect the plate.

Roberts, of course, is famous for his own baseball analogies. In his confirmation, he declared that "judges are like umpires. Umpires don't make the rules. They apply them... Nobody ever went to a ballgame to see the umpire."

Yet, justices do make rules not only in new precedent, but in the operation of the court system. Those rules are being broken.

In the same week as the new leak, Justice Sonia Sotomayor attacked her colleague Brett Kavanaugh as essentially an out-of-touch prig who had never even met an hourly wage worker. It was an unfair insult and a departure from the court's long-standing rules of civility. (Sotomayor later apologized.)

Additionally, a forthcoming book by Mollie Hemingway on Justice Samuel Alito contains an embarrassing account of how Justice Elena Kagan allegedly screamed at Justice Stephen Breyer so loudly before the Dobbs opinion that the "wall was shaking." (The book suggests that Kagan was upset with Breyer agreeing to spur along the dissents to get out the final opinions in light of rising threats against conservative colleagues after the leak.)

For an institution that prides itself on its confidentiality and insularity, the court is looking increasingly porous and partisan in these leaks. Worse yet, people are indeed coming to the court "to see the umpires."

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https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/jonathan-turley-chief-justice-roberts-could-learn-baseball-great-ted-williams-comes-leaks

[Sighlass]

Any information what the leak was?

Source Wiki: In April 2026, the New York Times released and reported on internal memos from 2016 between justices regarding West Virginia v. EPA, before a 5-4 Court controversially issued a stay, in what is now considered to be the first shadow docket decision.[50] Law professor Stephen Vladeck had previously expected the memos to stay secret "until our grandkids can read the justices’ internal papers from that time period".

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We can bet that the big liberal "news" is reading more than we are privy to. They may selectively leak it when pressed to make a "splash".

[Cyber Liberty]

Turley seems to think this leak is about an old case about "shadow dockets," but I don't see the point in that unless it's to affect a pending Decision.  Somebody is trying to influence Justices on the SCOTUS, possibly with violence.

[Bigun]

Turley seems to think this leak is about an old case about "shadow dockets," but I don't see the point in that unless it's to affect a pending Decision.  Somebody is trying to influence Justices on the SCOTUS, possibly with violence.

I couldn't agree more! There is purpose behind it and that purpose cannot be good.

[Cyber Liberty]

I couldn't agree more! There is purpose behind it and that purpose cannot be good.

Roberts brought this on the Court with his unserious treatment of the leak of the Dobbs Decision!  We'll see more leaks in the future if Roberts lets this one go too.

[Polly Ticks]

Roberts brought this on the Court with his unserious treatment of the leak of the Dobbs Decision!  We'll see more leaks in the future if Roberts lets this one go too.

100% correct.

[BobfromWB]

The latest Supreme Court leak involves confidential internal memos about the court’s use of the “shadow docket,” published by The New York Times in April 2026. The leaked documents, dating back to 2016, reveal how justices, particularly under Chief Justice John Roberts, began using emergency procedures to issue major rulings without oral arguments or detailed public explanations—most notably in West Virginia v. EPA, where the court halted the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.

The leak exposes a shift in the court’s operations, with Roberts portrayed as actively pushing for rapid intervention despite objections from justices like Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan, who questioned the unprecedented speed and lack of lower court review.  The memos suggest the shadow docket has evolved from a tool for urgent matters into a mechanism for shaping significant policy, raising concerns about transparency and accountability.

Additional context includes:

The leak follows Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s speech criticizing conservative justices for using the shadow docket to issue “utterly irrational” decisions.
This marks the second major breach under Roberts, after the 2022 Dobbs draft opinion leak that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Chief Justice Roberts has faced growing pressure to involve the FBI in investigations, as prior internal probes failed to identify leakers.
A forthcoming book by Mollie Hemingway also reveals internal tensions, including Justice Kagan allegedly screaming at Justice Breyer over dissent strategy after the Dobbs leak. (ai)

Thanks!!!

[DefiantMassRINO]

So much for the Supreme Court being "non-partisan".

[Wingnut]

Roberts proved he was incapable of finding the Dobbs leaker(s).  Bring in the A Team.

[Smokin Joe]

Roberts proved he was incapable of finding the Dobbs leaker(s).  Bring in the A Team.

For a guy who could find a 'tax' where only penalties existed, that's pretty sad.

[Bigun]