Once a leaker, always a leaker. From 2012: Did a justice's wife leak Supreme Court drama?

[Nevilledog]

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NPR legal reporter Nina Totenberg spoke to Bloomberg Law yesterday about the Supreme Court's recent healthcare reform decision and the subsequent series of stories on the deliberations based on leaks to reporters from court insiders. She made this interesting observation:

"[The leaks] had the earmarks of somebody -- somebody or two bodies -- who are very angry. Now that's not necessarily a justice. Could be a justice, could be a law clerk, could be a spouse of a justice."

Totenberg goes on to say that of course she never tries to learn the identities of other reporters' sources, but that's still an interesting bit of ... fairly specific speculation, there.

Of course, there is only one "spouse of a justice" that anyone has ever heard of, and it's America's Sweetheart, Ginni Thomas.

We already know her husband, Clarence Thomas, is an extraordinarily angry and bitter person, thanks to his memoir, "I Am Still an Incredibly Angry and Bitter Person on Account of That Time Anita Hill Told the Complete Truth About Me." (And Clarence Thomas is apparently buddies with CBS's Jan Crawford.) And Ginni made a living, for years, touring the nation telling everyone how awful and unconstitutional healthcare reform was, which means she was probably pretty upset when her husband told her John Roberts voted to kill liberty forever. She's also known for having really poor impulse control, if her still-hilarious early Saturday morning voice mail for Anita Hill is any indication. So let's all just assume she's leaking everything, because she and her husband are so mad and crazy.

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[UTUSN]

1. K&R

[Stuart G]

2. K and R. Thanks for posting.

[Pas-de-Calais]

3. Completely forgot this one!!! Yupyup

Thanks!!!

[soldierant]

4. I don't think it's necessarily true that once a leaker, always a leaker,

because some - many - people are capable of mental and emotional growth. But then, this is Ginni Thomas we are talking about here.

[dlk]

5. I've thought it was Ginny Thomas from the beginning

She’s a zealot.

[BComplex]

6. My husband said that the minute it was leaked.

He's always spoiling the "who dun it" movies, because he spots the "bad guy" instantly. It's like he reads the actor's mind or something! And he always nails it!!

But he said "Ginny Thomas" the minute Chris Hayes announced it on MSNBC that night while we were watching.