George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley criticized the Supreme Court on Jan. 19 over its failure to determine who leaked a draft of the court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization opinion. After a months-long investigation sparked by the May leak, the court released its much-anticipated investigative report (pdf) on the matter Thursday, finding…
Supreme Court’s Failure to Identify Dobbs Leaker Is ‘Chilling’: Jonathan Turley
Deafening Silence on Dobbs Leak Undermines Supreme Court as an Institution
Commentary Chief Justice John Roberts is said to see defending the Supreme Court as an institution as pivotal to his role on it. On its face then, the Court’s silence some two months after Justice Roberts announced an investigation into what he termed an “egregious breach”—the assault on the institution of the Court that was…
Protesters Finalizing Plans For Blockade of Supreme Court on June 13
Protesters planning to blockade the Supreme Court say they expect to be arrested for their actions but would break the law anyway. In an online meeting organized by Shut Down D.C., several activist groups joined forces to plan how to prevent justices from entering the U.S. Supreme Court on June 13. The protest is a…
Police Will ‘Monitor’ Abortion Protests Near Supreme Court
Washington police say they’re aware of proposed protests near the Supreme Court and will plan accordingly. Protest organizing group Shut Down D.C. has said that it will blockade the court on June 13 in response to a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that suggests the justices might overturn Roe v. Wade. In Roe v. Wade,…
Police Will ‘Monitor’ Abortion Protests Near the Supreme Court
Washington police say they are aware of proposed protests near the Supreme Court and will plan accordingly. Protest organizing group Shut Down D.C. has said that it will blockade the court on June 13 in response to a leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that suggests the justices might overturn Roe v. Wade. In Roe v. Wade,…
Washington Faith-Based Pregnancy Center Vandalized
A faith-based pregnancy center just blocks from the U.S. Capitol was vandalized with red paint and eggs, and spray-painted with the words “JANE SAYS” and “REVENGE,” sometime between late Thursday night and Friday morning. Washington Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) officers responded Friday morning to reports of damaged property at the Capitol Hill Pregnancy Center—a faith-based…
Dobbs Leaker’s Legacy: Lifting Mob Rule Over Rule of Law
Commentary The most charitable interpretation of the gambit by a still unnamed individual to leak Justice Samuel Alito’s draft Dobbs opinion is that the leaker felt it to be his or her righteous duty to destroy justice in a desperate bid to “save” it. Regardless of whether done under a perverse sense of good faith,…
Draft Opinion Overturning Roe v. Wade Won’t Have Ripples, Legal Experts Say
News analysis Conservative legal experts consulted by The Epoch Times reject predictions by left-wing lawmakers that if the Supreme Court formally adopts the leaked majority draft opinion striking down Roe v. Wade, the high court’s conservative majority will follow up by overturning precedents protecting same-sex marriage and civil rights. Roe v. Wade is the seminal…
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