Just when the Supreme Court thought the Dobbs leak “investigation” was behind it, the probe somehow looks even weaker.
According to reporting from CNN’s Joan Biskupic on Friday, former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who wrote a letter endorsing the court marshal’s report last week on the investigation, has previously undisclosed financial ties to the court. According to Biskupic’s report, the court has paid Chertoff’s risk assessment firm at least $1 million “for consultations that extended over several months and involved a review of the justices’ homes.”
Recall that the probe failed to find the leaker of the draft Dobbs opinion overturning Roe v. Wade. That’s fine, because the leak wasn’t necessarily a bad thing. But as I’ve written previously, if the court wanted a thorough investigation, it didn’t get one. For one thing, the marshal didn’t ask the justices to sign affidavits swearing that they didn’t leak, although clerks and staff did…
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