Supreme Court Releases Final Report On Investigation Into Who Leaked Case Overturning Roe v. Wade

On Thursday, the Supreme Court released a statement announcing that investigators could not determine who was behind last year’s leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade.

“In May 2022, this Court suffered one of the worst breaches of trust in its history: the leak of a draft opinion,” an unsigned statement from the Supreme Court Justices said. “The leak was no mere misguided attempt at protest. It was a grave assault on the judicial process.”

Notably, the leak led to a surge in violence against pro-life facilities, and motivated an armed man to allegedly attempt to assassinate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

“For these reasons and others, the Court immediately and unanimously agreed that the extraordinary betrayal of trust that took place last May warranted a thorough investigation. The Chief Justice assigned the task to the Marshal of the Supreme Court and her staff,” the statement continued. “After months of diligent analysis of forensic evidence and interviews of almost 100 employees, the Marshal’s team determined that no further investigation was warranted with respect to many of the ’82 employees [who] had access to electronic or hard copies of the draft opinion.’”

“In following up on all available leads, however, the Marshal’s team performed additional forensic analysis and conducted multiple follow-up interviews of certain employees,” the statement added. “But the team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence.”