Court releases report on eight-month investigation into May leak of draft opinion that overturned Roe v Wade
On 2 May, the bombshell leak was made public after Politico published the draft opinion of justice Samuel Alito that overturned Roe vWade. Within 24 hours, chief justice John Roberts confirmed the draft’s authenticity and ordered court marshal Gail Curley to investigate the leak.
The court said it could not rule out that the opinion was inadvertently disclosed, “for example, by being left in a public space either inside or outside the building”. Hard copies of the draft opinion were also distributed to some chambers. Thirty-four employees confirmed printing out copies of the draft while four were unsure. Several printed out more than one copy, the report said.
More people working from home, “as well as gaps in the Court’s security policies, created an environment where it was too easy to remove sensitive information from the building and the Court’s IT networks”, it added.
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