A Supreme Disgrace at the High Court
Plus more on the increasingly Maoist modern academy
A Supreme Disgrace at the High Court
Last spring, the American system of government suffered a grievous blow when someone leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion that would ultimately prevail in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, overturning the infamous Roe v. Wade abortion precedent.
The brazen act threatened the internal deliberative process on which the Court relies for its day-to-day functioning and spurred illegal protests outside the homes of justices. Those protests attempted to cow the justices into deciding Dobbs the way the pro-abortion mob wanted, culminating in an assassination plot against Justice Brett Kavanaugh. The damage done to the Court as an institution was incalculable, and perhaps irrevocable.
At the time, Chief Justice John Roberts called the leak a "singular and egregious breach" and a "betrayal of the confidences of the Court," and ordered an investigation into its provenance.
As the weeks passed with no update on the Dobbs leaker to speak of, I was highly critical of the Court, dumbfounded by its selection of the Court's marshal to lead the investigation, and skeptical of the probe's thoroughness. If the breach of the Court was as egregious as the the chief justice stated, why wouldn't he put an authority with commensurate experience and capability on the case?
Over eight months after the leak, the verdict is in, and our concerns have been more than vindicated.
I write about the pathetic and inexcusable inability—or unwillingness—to find and bring the Dobbs leaker to justice in a new piece at Newsweek.
I also cut a related video for Straight Arrow News:
Separately, wanted to share a couple recent long-form interviews I gave in connection with my reporting at RealClearInvestigations and Newsweek on the Maoist environment on college campuses, and the political and cultural ramifications. You can find them below: