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ck4829

(35,038 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2023, 08:30 PM Jan 2023

Well, I'm disappointed

The Supreme Court says it has been unable to identify "by a preponderance of the evidence" who leaked the Dobbs opinion last year.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/press/Dobbs_Public_Report_January_19_2023.pdf

In that leaked opinion, Samuel Alito cited Matthew Hale, a jurist who believed that dreams counted as evidence and had women executed for witchcraft as part of his legal reasoning.

https://jezebel.com/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-draft-cites-sir-matthew-hale-1848872890
https://historyofmassachusetts.org/spectral-evidence/

So Michael Chertoff and the Supreme Court used:
* Formal interviews
* Follow-up interviews
* Looking at electronic data
* Searching of logs
* Collections of laptops and mobile devices

But nobody felt comfortable using spectral evidence to find the leaker? Nobody wanted to use what their dreams told them? Nobody felt right suspecting witchcraft?

Come on Chertoff; if that's what (poor) (minority) women have to deal with now, why not the Supreme Court, right?

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Well, I'm disappointed (Original Post) ck4829 Jan 2023 OP
If it was a Democrat we would know. So for sure pwb Jan 2023 #1
Happens every time. 2naSalit Jan 2023 #3
Yeah Sure Ya Betcha Faux pas Jan 2023 #2
It really doesn't matter. J_William_Ryan Jan 2023 #4
Chertoff should have tried to find Alito bird that would talk rurallib Jan 2023 #5

pwb

(11,246 posts)
1. If it was a Democrat we would know. So for sure
Thu Jan 19, 2023, 08:34 PM
Jan 2023

it is a puke and they are circling the protection wagon for the guilty. IMO.

J_William_Ryan

(1,748 posts)
4. It really doesn't matter.
Thu Jan 19, 2023, 09:06 PM
Jan 2023

The irreparable damage is done, as is the Court – at least for the next four decades.

Conservativism destroys everything it touches, in this case the judiciary.

rurallib

(62,379 posts)
5. Chertoff should have tried to find Alito bird that would talk
Thu Jan 19, 2023, 09:34 PM
Jan 2023

Alito bird might have spilled the beans (trying for a little joke, folks)

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