Who Had Access To The Leaked SCOTUS Draft Overturning Roe? - TPM – Talking Points Memo

Let’s go to the theater, Mr. Lincoln   ; - )

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Bingo.

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Probably not but if the identity is ever revealed then that legal career is pretty much toast to the point of ash. Unless it’s Ginni T then it’s just another day in the life of a SCOTUS Wife.

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I’ll guess someone spearfished Thomas with an email link to a porn site, and got access to SCOTUS servers.

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I mean it did bump Russian murderous war in Ukraine off the front page…

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WTAF?

Is she really that stupid?

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No doubt, but when republicans clutch their pearls and say it was ‘lawless’ they are shockingly not being honest with their words.

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But there’s a question key to understanding the range of possible answers: who in the Supreme Court has access to draft opinions?

Line 1 on any such list should read:

  1. The author
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Along the same line, I thought I heard a sub-host on The View claim that President Biden can end the filibuster with an Executive Order…?

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Trust me, I’ve met people this stupid. THEY WALK AMONG US. :scream:

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Kav should be prime suspect.

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Or maybe it’s the husband—Justice Thomas. I see him as possibly eager to please his rabid wife, whose history shows a lust for achieving long term radical goals. Leaking Alito’s draft opinion would be apt to lock in as many as possible of the majority’s Yes votes for the draft opinion. In other words, the Thomases could’ve aimed to secure the votes of everyone except CJ Roberts. This would also preempt Roberts from possibly still recruiting Gorsuch or Kavanaugh or Barrett to his written opinion, which is probably gonna be contra Alito’s tendentious tract.

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I agree that the circumstances behind the leak are a story as well. Not as big as the draft , but, hey: we can walk & chew a gummy at the same time

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Here is their list,

  • It was a leak from the right to stop Kavanaugh from defecting

  • It’s designed to make the ruling as drastic as possible

  • It’s a leak from the left to influence Roberts

  • It was Roberts

  • It’s designed to blunt the liberal reaction to the final decision — or serve as a distraction

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It’s what she would try to do, ergo…

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“Eliminate all possibilities…” are, I believe, the words of Arthur Conan Doyle, uttered by his character Sherlock Holmes

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Re: Blackburn

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@ralph_vonholst

Jacobs is a semi retired wrestler.

It’s Tennessee

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Voila!

who dunit

Thinking here… which political party demonstrates a habit of breaking long-held national traditions…

Hard choice.

I figure it’s either the Republican Party or the Donald Trump “Oh So Healthy” World Event Party. Could be either.

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