Anti-abortion zealots target Sotomayor aide as source of leak: Their threats are no joke

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Almost as soon as Politico published its explosive story on Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's leaked draft opinion, which strongly suggests the court is about to overturn Roe v. Wade, conservatives responded by focusing not on the content of the news, but how it was obtained. Online Monday night, there were nearly immediate calls to find and punish the leaker. In a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell insistently told reporters that the prospect of recriminalizing abortion was "not the story for today," but rather the supposedly dangerous precedent of the leak.

Also on Tuesday afternoon, Operation Rescue, the notorious anti-abortion activist group responsible for some of the movement's most outrageous tactics, joined the fray, issuing a press release declaring that the leak had most likely come from the office of Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

That claim traced back to pretty thin sourcing: a Twitter thread posted by a Republican political strategist who, about an hour after Politico published its story Monday night, suggested he'd solved the mystery: One of Sotomayor's staffers had joined hundreds of classmates in opposing the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh and, at an earlier point, had been quoted in Politico regarding a case on which he'd assisted.

Within hours, the staffer's name had become a hashtag and his picture was plastered across Twitter, along with abundant calls for the individual's disbarment, incarceration for life or prosecution for treason.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/anti-abortion-zealots-target-sotomayor-aide-as-source-of-leak-their-threats-are-no-joke/ar-AAWU9jH

[Achilleaze]

1. This seems like staged outrage

...as if they were lying in wait to PROJECT the blame on to an innocent justice.

The right-wing track record of lies and evil foul trickery causes me to immediately suspect that this attack on an aide to Sotomayer is an EVIL FUGGING REPUBLICAN PLOT.

Are the russian bot farms helping to amp this up? Likely. We know they work skank-in-skank with the Repubes to undermine truth, democracy, and America -- and to promo fasicsm.

[Deuxcents]

2. Nah. It was Ginnie Thomas

See? It’s easy to point out others n start rumors n maybe destroy someone’s reputation or worse, bring harm to an innocent. All they care about is the leaker. Someone. Anyone.

[Jilly_in_VA]

5. It was almost certainly

some right-winger close to or even on the court. My money's on Miss Ginni too.

[Takket]

3. i don't understand why the right is so upset about this?

a leak occurred but it was a leak of information they have literally be salivating for for 50 years. i mean, if the leak had been a majority draft opinion from Sotomayor that Roe would be upheld, well I'd be mildly upset that a leak occurred but i'd be THRILLED that it was the result I was hoping for.

The outrage on this is like if my favorite baseball team just won the world series but we found out someone on the other team was using steroids. okay, not cool they cheated, but we won, so who gives a damn?

[Frustratedlady]

4. Prosecution for treason? Really?

I find it amazing that a Repuker knows that treason is a word. They certainly try to avoid it.