Dobbs was probably leaked by Sotomayor
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Glenn Beaton
Original Article
Posted By: Big Bopper,
4/30/2023 10:18:31 AM
The Supreme Court decision last year in Dobbs v. Jackson overruled Roe v. Wade, their 1973 decision that purported to find an abortion right in a U.S. Constitution that never mentions or alludes to it. Abortion is now rightly governed by the people’s elected legislators, and, sadly, to some extent by unelected bureaucrats, but, in any event, not by judges.
The Dobbs decision was leaked a couple of months in advance of its issuance.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/30/2023 10:25:01 AM (No. 1459652)
Eeeeee-yep. It was the self-identified "wise Latina woman" (sic), a tautology since every Latina is a woman. What she said would have been remarkable only if she had called herself a "Latino."
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hazymac 4/30/2023 10:26:44 AM (No. 1459654)
Or, better still, a "Latin-X."
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 4/30/2023 10:35:52 AM (No. 1459659)
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest. I have never trusted that woman, and the Brown woman is far worse.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
formerNYer 4/30/2023 10:38:01 AM (No. 1459663)
I nailed it!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
JayD 4/30/2023 10:39:46 AM (No. 1459666)
Sotomayor was my suspicion from the start. If it has been anyone other that a justice it would have been revealed. CJ Roberts is such a squish that he is afraid to "upset the balance" of the court. With all his other failings, GW Bush made an indelible mark with Roberts' nomination.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/30/2023 10:54:09 AM (No. 1459703)
A lawyer experienced in the Supreme Court, Beaton lays out a good case against Sotomayor. She has bern a toxic justice and now she is old and sick.. As Beaton suggests, will she issue her last blow against the conservatives by retiring when a Dem president will nominate her successor?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
David Key 4/30/2023 11:09:25 AM (No. 1459725)
Any body hear that she's being investigate by DOJ? Just asking for someone who's curious. Can you say hypocrisy, sure you can I know you can. Can you say double standard, sure you can I know you can.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chance_232 4/30/2023 11:12:26 AM (No. 1459730)
Beaton has concluded that Satomayer is "probably" the leaker. He, himself has no actual evidence to support his conclusion.
From the article: "I rule out the law clerks, for several reasons. One, a law clerk would be jeopardizing a lucrative and powerful career as a lawyer, a career he’d worked toward for many years. The kind of people who graduate high in their law school class at Harvard and Yale desire lucre and power. People without that desire don’t get there."
This is faulty reasoning for the simple reason that unlike conservatives, liberals are rewarded for any bad behavior that advances their behavior. You can no longer trust the bar association. To wit, they and judges have censured, held in contempt and disbarred conservative lawyers for questioning the 2020 election. Further, I guarantee that there are liberal law firms out there that would happy to hire the leaker, AKA Hero of the People.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 4/30/2023 11:13:27 AM (No. 1459733)
Re #1, I say "wide Latina" for accuracy, since she is wide, and is NOT wise.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
walcb 4/30/2023 11:21:41 AM (No. 1459743)
I would say the best argument that the leaker was a justice is the fact that the leaker has not been discovered/revealed. If it was a justice that would create turmoil and the likelihood that it was a liberal justice is also likely because they are of the special class that has to be protected--rules for thee but not for me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
greyseal 4/30/2023 11:54:56 AM (No. 1459768)
I think Will Chamberlin was correct - my money is on Elizabeth B. Deutsch who clerked for Breyer prior to his retirement. She's a leftie lawyer who has been active in "reproductive rights" efforts (Master's in Gender, Yale Law research paper on abortion, and an NYT op-ed on the subject). She is married to a ProPublica journalist who worked with Josh Gerstein, the Politico reporter who published the "leak" and who attended her wedding. Since she was headed out the door anyway with Breyer's retirement, she had nothing to lose. Being the "leaker" would be perceived as a plus on her CV by any leftie law firm to where she might apply. Her trail has gone dark since her clerking days...maybe keeping a low profile.
Just sayin'...
greyseal
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
woodenleg 4/30/2023 11:59:26 AM (No. 1459770)
Always been my theory.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Big Bopper 4/30/2023 12:14:58 PM (No. 1459784)
No. 11:
You state "Since she was headed out the door anyway with Breyer's retirement, she had nothing to lose."
But ...
(1) She had tons to lose, just as any other clerk would have tons to lose. Being caught would taint her for life; and
(2) ALL the clerks were headed out the door. They serve only one year. The fact that Breyer was retiring at the end of the term is not relevant -- ALL the clerks were ending their clerkships at the end of the term, as they always do.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 4/30/2023 12:16:41 PM (No. 1459785)
I agree, but my second choice is Kagen. If you recall, Obama was in full cry against the Supreme Court when Obamacare was being considered, particularly after oral arguments. He suddenly went quiet a few months before Roberts' pretzel-like decision supporting Obamacare came out. I've read speculation that someone clued Obama in that he had nothing to worry about. Kagen was Obama's solicitor general prior to her appointment to SCOTUS. Her name was associated with the speculation.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
volksford 4/30/2023 12:26:07 PM (No. 1459796)
Ditto # 14 ..when the hoopla died down and the issue suddenly became quite a couple months before the decision I knew the fix was in the bag
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/30/2023 12:39:44 PM (No. 1459807)
They don't really know because they don't REALLY want to know; otherwise, every person known to have access to the decision would have been given a lie detector test.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/30/2023 12:58:19 PM (No. 1459821)
Pretty sure the reason no leaker was ever found because it was one of the justices and my guess has always been Soda-jerk.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/30/2023 1:15:04 PM (No. 1459836)
Probably the best guess. If it had been a conservative or a lower level clerk, the name would have been made public and the person would have been used as a bad example. That's the way democrats roll.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Plaza Brat 4/30/2023 1:30:41 PM (No. 1459842)
She's my guess. Shortly after the draft decision was published, she said something nice about Justice Thomas. That is so far out of character for her that I suspect she realized he knew it was her but didn't call her out, so this was her lame attempt at gratitude. I suspect all the justices believe she's the leaker. Hence the spate of ethical allegations against conservatives and even that wuss Roberts. Lefties never apologize but instead go on the offense.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Italiano 4/30/2023 1:38:09 PM (No. 1459843)
If I were a betting man, and I am, my money would be on the Wide Latina. The dumbest, least qualified "Justice" in history.
At least until until we see about Jackson.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Safari Man 4/30/2023 1:40:57 PM (No. 1459844)
Here's how you know it was ONE of the liberal justices themselves... a thorough investigation "turned up nothing." This means that it was someone too big to fail, and ONLY a liberal justice gets off scot-free. Alito knows who it is, they all do. Our side should take this opportunity to extract some concessions.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 4/30/2023 5:21:11 PM (No. 1459955)
The Wide Sluttina has the evil potential without a doubt.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
smokincol 4/30/2023 6:44:33 PM (No. 1459989)
that's why "they" don't want the truth to come out = hardly a good reason
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/30/2023 7:30:55 PM (No. 1460010)
Yep, the wide latina.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 4/30/2023 7:31:50 PM (No. 1460013)
Oops. Typo. But "wise" works, too.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
SALady 4/30/2023 9:16:58 PM (No. 1460062)
Anyone with more than 6 working brain cells knew immediately that it was one of the lie-beral women on the SCOTUS that leaked it. And the FBI knew exactly who it was within days.
But because it was one of the "protected class" on the SCOTUS, they just pretended that they couldn't figure out who did it. What a pathetic joke!!!!!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
pensom2 5/1/2023 1:48:14 AM (No. 1460144)
Let's imagine it was the Latina justice. Personally, I can't imagine how she was clever enough to smuggle the opinion, or the flash drive on which the opinion was saved, out of the building. She had to have had an accomplice. But if they discovered persuasive evidence that she was the culprit, why would they not follow it through and expose her?
Because she could be impeached. And if she were impeached, she would very likely be convicted at trial, even in the dem senate. How could that many dem senators go home to their constituents and explain why he/she didn't vote to convict the proven lying, cheating, disrespectful, unethical Latina?
What would happen then? Biden could appoint yet another lefty to fill the Latina's position, and the new Biden appointee could be yet another incompetent lefty, only much younger. You win, you lose, you lose, you lose.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
JoElla Bee 5/1/2023 4:18:33 AM (No. 1460161)
Probably true, sounds to me like the leaker knew her colleagues would know exactly who leaked; knew the effect of the leak among the “protestors”, and looked forward to their “intimidation”, not caring any more than the most vicious among them whether any of the Justices, or their loved ones, was harmed. (Does anyone supporting sucking the brains out of a fully developed pre born baby really have the capacity to care about the murder of any other “inconvenient” life?)
The calculation may have been off as to the outcome of the vote, but never about the result of any investigation of the leaker.
Why would she fear? If named she would be a hero to her fellow leftists, and she wouldn’t give a demonrat’s rear about any minimal negative result to herself from anyone else.
The greatest miscalculation for the unrepentant - regardless of lack of judgment or fleeting consequences for evil on this earth, God is still a Righteous Judge, & eternity still lasts forever.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
mifla 5/1/2023 6:26:49 AM (No. 1460193)
I still think it was a clerk, but if the clerk was helped/encouraged by the Justice they worked for, then I can see Roberts covering it up.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Big Bopper 5/1/2023 4:58:33 PM (No. 1460609)
No 27:
I don't believe the Justices get searched when they exit the building.
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