The Supreme Court said it has not determined who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights
, the court said its investigative team “has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence.”
Investigators “conducted 126 formal interviews of 97 employees, all of whom denied disclosing the opinion” in sworn statements, the court said inSome employees had to amend their written statements after they “admitted to telling their spouses about the draft opinion or vote count,” the report said. The investigation concluded that it “is unlikely that the Court’s information technology systems were improperly accessed by a person outside the Court,” following an examination of the court’s computers, networks, printers, and available call and text logs.
Roberts also asked former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, himself a onetime federal judge, to assess the investigation. Chertoff, in a statement issued through the court, described it as thorough.published the draft decision on May 2. Less than 24 hours later, Roberts confirmed the draft’s authenticity and said he had directed the court’s marshal, former Army Col. Gail Curley, to lead the investigation.
Responding to protests outside the court, officials ringed the building with hard-to-climb fencing, the same barrier that was in place for months following the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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