(05-04-2022, 05:41 AM)OzJohnnie Wrote:

(05-03-2022, 11:06 PM)snaxdelrio Wrote: Excited to see who leaked!

On leak, my money is someone in admin.  Printer’s office.  Secretary.  The like.  It’s not out of the realm of possibility for a justice or clerk to leak but it’s much longer odds than a support staffer.  Or maybe someone’s spouse picked it up out of the home office.

This leak is par for the course for one particular side.  Nothing is out of bounds and the ends always justify the means.  I think the best odds are with the rumor that Sotomayor's clerk was the leaker being that he was already a known source for the journalist who broke the story.  If he didn't leak it, I'd have a hard time believing he didn't at least conspire with the person who did. Proving it is another matter entirely. Not sure how one does without the journalist revealing the source. I'm guessing the leaker is smart enough not to have emailed it anywhere and instead printed a hard copy or had someone else print the hard copy who wouldn't be under scrutiny for doing so.

If you're on record opposing a particular Justice's nomination, any of the other Justices probably shouldn't then bring you on to their staff as a professional courtesy to the other Justice(s).  That's not the times we live in though.

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