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Supreme Court Leak Inquiry Exposes Gray Area of Press Protections
“The norms of confidentiality at the court, they’re not gentle or subtle,” said Allison Orr Larsen, a professor at William and Mary Law School who clerked for Justice David H. Souter. “They are strongly and repeatedly emphasized.” As blunt and terrifying as those warnings may be, they are informal. So are the rules that apply […]
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As Leak Theories Circulate, Supreme Court Marshal Takes Up Investigation
WASHINGTON — Maybe it was a liberal law clerk who leaked the draft opinion in the Supreme Court’s biggest case in years, hoping to gin up outrage among Democrats at the prospect of an end to legal abortions. Or it was an anti-abortion court employee fearful that the justices would end up backing away from […]
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Inside Politico’s Roe v. Wade Scoop
Politico’s top editors and executives spent Sunday morning sipping Bloody Marys and nibbling bite-size waffles and wienerschnitzel as they chatted with top Washington officials, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary, at an annual brunch hosted at the opulent Georgetown home of Robert Allbritton, a Politico founder. What […]
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Leaked Supreme Court Draft Would Overturn Roe v. Wade
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that has guaranteed the right to abortion for nearly a half-century, according to a leaked draft opinion from February published online Monday night by Politico. In the draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., a majority of […]
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