The Supreme Court Leaker Gets Away

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

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🗓️ 20 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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An internal investigation, including interviews with nearly 100 Supreme Court staff, has failed to discover who leaked the draft of Justice Samuel Alito's Dobbs abortion decision, while revealing how lax security protocols let it happen. Plus, the share of the workforce that's unionized drops to the lowest on record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	3, 2, 1
0:03.0	What will the world look like 10 or 20 years from now?
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0:15.5	From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.
0:24.4	Supreme Court fails to find the leaker of the draft Dobs abortion ruling as new figures
0:30.2	show that the unionized share of the workforce has fallen to its lowest level on record.
0:35.6	Welcome on Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.
0:38.4	We are joined today by my colleagues, columnist Kim Strassel and editorial board member,
0:43.6	Meneh Uquay-Barroua.
0:45.6	Welcome happy Friday to one and all.
0:48.2	The leaking of Justice Samuel Alitos' draft decision in Dobs, the case that overturned
0:54.3	Roby Wade last year shook American politics.
0:57.1	It apparently also prompted an unstable man to show up in the middle of the night outside
1:02.0	Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house before he turned himself in.
1:05.9	He had a pistol ammunition, zip ties, a crowbar, and other such things with him.
1:11.8	But Kim, it seems after months and months of investigation, we are no closer to figuring
1:17.0	out who done it, who leaked the draft.
1:19.9	On Thursday, the court released a 20 page report by the Marshall of the Court gale curly.
1:26.6	And Kim, I wonder if a place to start would be to give us a sense of what this document
1:30.0	says.
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