Republicans want investigation of SC leak, Dems mostly mute

 NBC News:

Republican lawmakers are demanding a federal investigation into who leaked an apparent draft of a majority opinion showing that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision that has protected a woman’s right to an abortion for the past half century.

The leak of the 98-page document — an extraordinary occurrence for the highly guarded institution — has rocked Washington and infuriated conservatives who said the breach was designed to intimidate the court and called for the person responsible to be caught and prosecuted.

“This is an attack on the court. This is someone who’s done something that is unprecedented. They decided to leak this,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., a member of the Judiciary Committee, told reporters Tuesday.

She said she's certain Chief Justice John Roberts and the FBI "have worked all night long trying to find out who did this, and I have no doubt that the justices were assembled early this morning to come together and address this.”

In a statement on Tuesday, a Supreme Court spokesperson said that the document is “authentic” but “does not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.” Calling the leak a “betrayal,” Chief Justice John Roberts said he directed the marshal of the court to investigate the source of the breach.

GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, a former Texas solicitor general who has argued cases before the Supreme Court, called for an FBI investigation into the leak and said the person responsible "should be prosecuted and should go to jail for a very long time."

“It is utterly stunning that anyone at the court would leak a draft opinion. In over 200 years of our nation’s history, this has never happened and I’m appalled,” Cruz told reporters Tuesday.

"This is the most egregious breach of trust at the Supreme Court that has ever happened," he added. "Presumably, some left-wing law clerk angry at the direction the court is going decided to betray his or her obligation, the trust that clerk owed to the justice and to the court."

Politico, which posted its bombshell story and the leaked document Monday night, did not identify its source, or whether the individual or individuals were conservative or liberal.

Pressed on how he was certain the leaker was a liberal, Cruz replied: "Because I'm not a moron, because I live on planet Earth."
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Notice that no Democrat is quoted as condemning the leak?  That suggests they support the leak and plan to use it for political purposes.  Roe was a poorly reasoned opinion that made up a constitutional right that never existed.  Overturning the decision will mean the states will make their own judgment on the issue.