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Back in 2019, when CNN reported that Chief Justice John Roberts had changed his mind on a decision about the U.S. Census, Supreme Court watchers lined up said these sorts of leaks almost never happened:
The U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t leak. It just doesn’t.
Except when it does.
Compared to other branches of government, the work of the highest court in the land is notable for the degree to which the justices are able keep their deliberations private.
So when information seeps out, like it did this week, court watchers pay attention, to say the least. Former clerks describe a strict culture of confidentiality and observers express alarm about the sanctity of a cloistered court.
A Sept. 12 CNN report gave a rare glimpse behind the curtain, alleging that Chief Justice John Roberts changed his mind from his initial vote in June’s hotly contested opinion involving the 2020 census.
Roberts ultimately cast the deciding vote to reject the Trump administration’s controversial attempt to add a citizenship question to the census, but he was initially going to go the other way, according to Joan Biskupic’s report citing “sources familiar with the private Supreme Court deliberations.”
It’s “super rare” for something like this to happen, said Leah Litman, a University of Michigan law professor who clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
Such deliberations are steeped in secrecy, and are subject to constant speculation from court watchers. That makes this new report illuminating not only for its content, but for the fact that insiders opened up to the outside world.
The report also said justices flipped their votes in another case last term, involving sex offender registration and the separation of governmental powers.
A 2012 CBS report, another notable entry in the rarefied genre of 21st century Supreme Court leaks, also featured Roberts’ apparent change of heart in a blockbuster case involving Obamacare.
Supreme Court clerks are generally known to observe something of a code of silence when it comes to their bosses’ work.
“One of the things the Court impresses on clerks the most is the clerks’ obligations of confidentiality,” Litman said. “Leaking the Court’s internal deliberations is just not something clerks do, and they know it.”
“Clerks are told to maintain secrecy about the workings of the Court, and they may risk harm to their careers by leaking information about specific cases,” said Matthew Tokson, a law professor at the University of Utah who clerked for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter. Some law firms pay U.S. Supreme Court clerks six-figure signing bonuses at the conclusion of their clerkship.
The CNN report doesn’t specify whether the information came from clerks, other staff, or elsewhere.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-leaks-super-rare-serve-ulterior-purposes
The U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t leak. It just doesn’t.
Except when it does.
Compared to other branches of government, the work of the highest court in the land is notable for the degree to which the justices are able keep their deliberations private.
So when information seeps out, like it did this week, court watchers pay attention, to say the least. Former clerks describe a strict culture of confidentiality and observers express alarm about the sanctity of a cloistered court.
A Sept. 12 CNN report gave a rare glimpse behind the curtain, alleging that Chief Justice John Roberts changed his mind from his initial vote in June’s hotly contested opinion involving the 2020 census.
Roberts ultimately cast the deciding vote to reject the Trump administration’s controversial attempt to add a citizenship question to the census, but he was initially going to go the other way, according to Joan Biskupic’s report citing “sources familiar with the private Supreme Court deliberations.”
It’s “super rare” for something like this to happen, said Leah Litman, a University of Michigan law professor who clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.
Such deliberations are steeped in secrecy, and are subject to constant speculation from court watchers. That makes this new report illuminating not only for its content, but for the fact that insiders opened up to the outside world.
The report also said justices flipped their votes in another case last term, involving sex offender registration and the separation of governmental powers.
A 2012 CBS report, another notable entry in the rarefied genre of 21st century Supreme Court leaks, also featured Roberts’ apparent change of heart in a blockbuster case involving Obamacare.
Supreme Court clerks are generally known to observe something of a code of silence when it comes to their bosses’ work.
“One of the things the Court impresses on clerks the most is the clerks’ obligations of confidentiality,” Litman said. “Leaking the Court’s internal deliberations is just not something clerks do, and they know it.”
“Clerks are told to maintain secrecy about the workings of the Court, and they may risk harm to their careers by leaking information about specific cases,” said Matthew Tokson, a law professor at the University of Utah who clerked for Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David H. Souter. Some law firms pay U.S. Supreme Court clerks six-figure signing bonuses at the conclusion of their clerkship.
The CNN report doesn’t specify whether the information came from clerks, other staff, or elsewhere.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/supreme-court-leaks-super-rare-serve-ulterior-purposes
T. A. Gardner
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Nobody trusts a rat. One might be celebrated for ratting, but nobody trusts a rat.
Tell that to Vince Foster and Jefferey Epstein.
T. A. Gardner
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They are the end product of that, the perfect solution to being a rat...
What's the body count so far?
that doesn't sound like prison time. This is a prison time kinda thing.
he no longer has federal pardon power.
T. A. Gardner
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No, this is a you fucked away your career sort of thing. Renquist told his clerks that back in the day. Whoever did this, if they're found, they won't be able to buy a job in the legal profession.
A PRISON STAY HAS THE SAME EFFECT.
T. A. Gardner
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No, a rat in prison who has a law degree ends up in the prison law library helping all the other inmates file appeals for cup of ramen and tuna fish packages from the prison commissary...
He pulls Sleepy Joe's puppet strings.
It's not.