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turbinetree

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Sat Nov 19, 2022, 04:08 PM Nov 2022

Supreme Court accused of leaking 2014 anti-choice ruling to religious leaders weeks before it was ma

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Supreme Court accused of leaking 2014 anti-choice ruling to religious leaders weeks before it was made public: report

By Tom Boggioni
Published November 19, 2022

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According to a letter obtained by the New York Times, a former anti-choice religious leader informed Chief Justice John Roberts back in June that the leak of Associate Justice Sam Alito's majority draft opinion gutting Roe v Wade was not the first time the court's vaunted secrecy was breached.

According to the report, the Rev. Rob Schenck wrote the letter to Roberts in light of the Dobbs leak, claiming information on the 2014 Burwell v. Hobby Lobby ruling also made its way into the hand of religious leaders who used it to conduct a PR campaign.

As the Times' Jodi Kantor and Jo Becker wrote, "Schenck said he was told the outcome of the 2014 case weeks before it was announced. He used that information to prepare a public relations push, records show, and he said that at the last minute he tipped off the president of Hobby Lobby, the craft store chain owned by Christian evangelicals that was the winning party in the case."

Paywall....

https://www.rawstory.com/supreme-court-abortion-2658722781/


Just reading the 6 paragraphs without the paywall means that we really need to expand the court......the country has been forced to for 8 years on this ruling and now the overturning of Roe.....what a corrupt court being bought and sold by the federalist society....and the zealots......

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Supreme Court accused of leaking 2014 anti-choice ruling to religious leaders weeks before it was ma (Original Post) turbinetree Nov 2022 OP
Headline bogus. Only Alito leaks and he whines hypocritically about lack of respect for the Court.nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2022 #1
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