Place your bets on who leaked the Roe v. Wade decision ...

[aggiesal]

Here is the betting sheet with odds
https://abovethelaw.com/2022/05/taking-bets-on-who-leaked-the-supreme-court-opinion/

Couldn't fit them all in the poll, so here are the remaining
Kavanaugh, Barrett, Gorsuch Clerks (+350)
David Souter (+1500)
Ketanji Brown Jackson (+30000)

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	Conservative Clerks (+155)
	2 (7%)
	John Roberts (+400)
	2 (7%)
	Samuel Alito (+450)
	9 (31%)
	Stephen Breyer (+500)
	0 (0%)
	Retired Justice Clerks (+550)
	0 (0%)
	Kagan, Sotomayor (+600)
	0 (0%)
	Clarence Thomas (+650)
	0 (0%)
	Ginni Thomas (+650)
	16 (55%)
	Kavanaugh (+1000)
	0 (0%)
	Barrett, Gorsuch (+1000)
	0 (0%)
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[AZSkiffyGeek]

1. Went w/ Clarence

If it was Ginni, she had to get it herself from somewhere, so Clarence would've had to provide her with a copy, which would make him responsible.

[WestMichRad]

2. My suspicion is that they'll never announce a culprit...

… to avoid embarrassing a key someone. But Roberts will channel his inner Susan Collins and express his deep concern about it.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. The RW base was calling for a criminal arrest and imprisonment. We should ask for no less.

[TheRealNorth]

7. +1

We should be doing FOIA's on the investigation. Make them answer.

[aggiesal]

9. Yup, Ted Cruz said it was ''Presumably some left-wing law clerk ...'' ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/former-supreme-court-law-clerks-worry-roe-leak-sow-distrust-justices-s-rcna27380

[TheBlackAdder]

3. Where's the stepford wife?

[Sympthsical]

5. The clerk whose husband worked with the Politico reporter is my guess

It's a fairly straightforward A to B to C chain of knowledge. I mean, that relationship is some hell of a circumstantial coincidence.

And it doesn't require crystal balling to divine intentions based on political bias.

That's if I had to guess. Who knows. They'll probably never say.

[unblock]

6. Surely the actual leak was done by a conservative clerk, but that misses the point

I can't imagine a clerk going rogue to do this. Jeopardizing everything they worked for for an unclear purpose.

Surely one of the justices, or Ginni Thomas, convinced them to do it.

I don't think a justice would personally do it; too visible. Why would they risk getting exposed by a journalist or even by accident.

But I can see a justice thinking there might be a strategic reason to leak it, perhaps thinking they need to break it slowly so the people don't riot. And then having a clerk do the dirty work.


So the question is, whose clerk?

[Midnight Writer]

8. Alito did the dirty deed-o.

[Ritabert]

10. My vote is Roberts

He wanted the 4 ultra-right wingers to get a glimpse of the public outcry if they didn't just agree with Dobbs but proceeded to overturn Roe as well.

[PlanetBev]

11. If one of the conservatives did it, we'll never find out about it

They protect each other. My money is on Ginni Thomas. If it is her, let me guarantee you that Clarence the giggling Clown knew about it.

[mvd]

12. I read that..

Roberts was trying to convince Kavanaugh to not overturn Roe v Wade, and after the leak, that become impossible. I think a conservative leaked it. Could have been a clerk but I chose Ginni Thomas.