Anti-abortion demonstrators participate within the annual “March for Life” for the primary time because the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade abortion choice, in Washington, January 20, 2023.
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Each of the Supreme Court’s justices have been questioned — some a number of instances — as half of an investigation into final 12 months’s leak of a draft opinion of the ruling that ended up overturning the court docket’s landmark Roe v. Wade abortion choice, the top of that probe revealed Friday.
The assertion got here a day after the Supreme Court refused to say whether or not the justices have been among the many almost 100 court docket staffers and clerks who have been questioned within the probe. That investigation didn’t establish the particular person or individuals who leaked the draft opinion by Justice Samuel Alito to Politico in May.
None of the justices or their spouses have been recognized as potential suspects, in line with Gail Curley, the marshal of the Supreme Court, who oversaw the leak probe.
But not like others interviewed, not one of the justices was requested to present a sworn affidavit denying they leaked the Alito opinion, Curley mentioned in a press release.
Alito wrote the June ruling that tossed out the Supreme’s Court five-decade-old choice in Roe v. Wade, which had established there was a constitutional proper to abortion.
“During the course of the investigation, I spoke with each of the Justices, several on multiple occasions,” Curley mentioned in a press release.
“The Justices actively cooperated in this iterative process, asking questions and answering mine,” Curley mentioned. “I followed up on all credible leads, none of which implicated the Justices or their spouses. On this basis, I did not believe that it was necessary to ask the Justices to sign sworn affidavits.”
The court docket has 9 justices, eight of whom have been serving on the time of the abortion ruling. Justice Stephen Breyer retired after the ruling was launched. CNBC has requested a court docket spokesman whether or not Breyer was amongst these interviewed by Curley.
Curley’s report on her failure to establish the leaker, which was launched Thursday, didn’t point out that she had questioned the justices.
The report did say Curley’s crew “conducted 126 formal interviews of 97 employees, all of whom denied disclosing the opinion.”
Each of these workers was requested to signal a sworn affidavit denying they disclosed the draft opinion.