Latest SCOTUS leak a gift to liberals ‘salivating’ over control of high court narrative: experts
Experts say the decade-old memos were leaked to damage Chief Justice Roberts and the court's credibility
By Ashley Oliver Fox News
Published April 22, 2026 6:00pm EDT
A Supreme Court leak is giving liberals new ammunition in their long-running criticism of the emergency docket after recently published internal memos showed how the high court fast-tracks major cases, a process that critics say has served to advance key parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda in his second term.
"The liberals are salivating over this. They're very happy because it reinforces their narrative," South Texas College of Law professor Josh Blackman told Fox News Digital.
The memos, published Saturday by The New York Times, offered a rare look at how Chief Justice John Roberts pressed the court in 2016 to quickly block President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan.
But the immediate concern now is not about what the documents revealed about the Supreme Court’s emergency docket but rather the leak itself, according to experts, who said it was a deliberate attempt to damage the court's credibility.
"The bigger issue is people are leaking stuff to try to hurt the court," Blackman said. "That's the bigger story. This was done to try to make the court look bad. Roberts, I think, doesn't come out looking very good in this one. ... I think it's designed to hurt the chief in particular."
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