Supreme Court Investigates 'Dobbs' Leak, Excludes Likeliest Suspects, Comes Up Empty ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Investigators carefully evaluated the statements and conduct of personnel who displayed attributes associated with insider-threat behavior – violation of confidentiality rules, disgruntled attitude, claimed stressed, anger at the Court’s decision, etc. – and also weighed behavior and evidence that would tend to mitigate any adverse inferences. Investigators also carefully evaluated whether personnel may have had reason to disclose the Court’s draft decision for strategic reasons.
The investigators, led by the Supreme Court Marshal, did a forensic search of its creaky IT system, which seems to have involved dozens of printers kicking out multiple, untraceable hard copies.
First, for some networked printers there was very little logging capability at the time, so it is likely that many print jobs were simply not captured. Second, the investigators learned that many printers in the building, including some assigned to Chambers, were locally connected printers and not resident and tracked on the Court’s networks. This means that the print logs for these printers were stored only locally in the printers’ internal memory.
They reviewed employees' search histories, to see if they Googled "how to get away with leaking Supreme Court opinions gutting women's rights."
For the initial interviews with employees, investigators reviewed any available legal research history while bulk requests were pending with the service providers. The purpose was to determine whether an employee might have researched the legality of disclosing confidential case-related information – possibly indicating the person’s intention to do so or concern about having done so after the fact. Investigators later obtained, analyzed and confirmed legal research history for all employees directly from the service providers. The investigators did not find anything suspicious or relevant in these records.
They checked to see if reporters Josh Gerstein and Alexander Ward were as dumb as Glenn Greenwald.
The investigators obtained a forensic examination of the digital image of the draft opinion that was posted on Politico’s website to compare against exemplars obtained from Court printers and copiers. There was nothing of evidentiary value that could be gleaned from the electronic copy of the draft opinion when compared against the exemplars.
They even hauled in former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff to check their work. He said it was A-okay!
What they didn't do was interview the Supreme Court justices, despite the fact that Justice Alito has a record of leaking his own opinions. Indeed, there's a whole network of activists dedicated to finessing the conservative justices to influence their opinions. If those people were interviewed, the report does not mention it.
Instead they harassed the law clerks for six months, threatening them with jail for making false statements to a federal official, before issuing this dumb report saying that there are some things in life which will remain mysteries for all eternity.
Luckily, some jackass on a golf cart in Florida knows how to crack this case wide open.
Ah, yes, we'll just "go to the reporter & ask him/her who it was. If not given the answer, put whoever in jail until the answer is given. You might add the publisher and editor to the list." The guy who encouraged Vladimir Putin to hack Hillary Clinton's emails is suddenly very worried about leaks. Time for some arbitrary detentions of reporters for protected First Amendment activity ... you know, to protect America's institutions and the rule of law.
Tune in next week when Politico reporters go to jail to protect Ginny Thomas. ALLEGEDLY.
[Marshal’s Report of Findings & Recommendations]
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SCOTUS Won't Let Mormon Trumpet Band Overturn 2020 Election
Tell me that's not the David St. Hubbins wig. That is the David St. Hubbins wig.
The whole lawsuit is worth a read if you are looking for a good laugh, but this has to be my favorite part:
Respondents were properly warned and were requested to make an investigation into a highly covert swift and powerful enemy, as stated below, seeking to destroy the Constitution and the United States, purposely thwarted all efforts to investigate this, whereupon this enemy was not checked or investigated, therefore the Respondents adhered to this enemy. Because of Respondents intentional refusal to investigate this enemy, Petitioner Raland J Brunson (“Brunson”) brought this action against Respondents because he was seriously personally damaged and violated by this action of Respondents, and consequently this action unilaterally violated the rights of every citizen of the U.S.A. and perhaps the rights of every person living, and all courts of law.
On January 6, 2021, the 117th Congress held a proceeding and debate in Washington DC (“Proceeding”). Proceeding was for the purpose of counting votes under the 2020 Presidential election for the President and Vice President of the United States under Amendment XII. During this Proceeding over 100 members of U.S. Congress claimed factual evidence that the said election was rigged. The refusal of the Respondents to investigate this congressional claim (the enemy) is an act of treason and fraud by Respondents. A successfully rigged election has the same end result as an act of war; to place into power whom the victor wants, which in this case is Biden, who, if not stopped immediately, will continue to destroy the fundamental freedoms of Brunson and all U.S. Citizens and courts of law.
The absolute drama.
While you, a normal person, have likely not heard much about Brunson v. Adams, it has been a huge deal for QAnon idiots and conspiracy theorists over the past few months, many of whom truly did believe that this was the thing that was going to finally work. Loy Brunson made all the rounds on kook media, doing interviews on Mike Lindell's FrankSpeech Internet streaming network, with Juan O Savin (whom some Q people believe is actually John F. Kennedy Jr), Johnny Enlow, Charlie Ward, and former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Kandiss "Babies and Guns" Taylor. Plus about 12,000 Rumble channels with the word "Patriot" in their name.
Yes, I absolutely did pick this particular screenshot because there is a guy in it calling himself "Baby Trump"
Naturally, many of the faithful are deeply disappointed today and fear they may be running out of "hopium." They expressed their disappointment on Telegram and other rightwing social media channels.
"Of course. It's time we stop believing anything is going to go our way. The system is rigged against us, and I'm sorry to say, noones [sic] coming to save us. Just look at Brazil."
"I am wondering what they mean by hanging in there at this point.... [they] want us in nooses. 🤬 This is just another bullshit hopium stunt. I agree... and I am done. I will just live my life going forward the best I can, and trust ONLY IN GOD. Good Luck All.The petition argued, essentially, that because people believed the election had been stolen, Congress had an obligation to investigate the claims, and because they didn't do that, they violated their oaths of office."
"Did u expect anything different it's all BS NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN SAY TRUST THE PLAN THERE IS NO PLAN EXCEPT TO STRING US ALONG MILITARY IS NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING FACE IT TRUMP IS A CHUMP I AM DONE WITH IT."
"Has anyone mentioned that the bad stuff is out pacing the good stuff exponentially? Just an observation. I'm really starting to believe the only way to fix this is civil war. It is scary to think we will have to fight our own military. I'm praying they step in soon, but when they do, I can imagine that we could have elections 120 days later. We don't even know who good candidates would be. We also need Constitutional law to replace the current law and full declass. That could easily take over a year."
"IM DONE WITH THEM PLAYING WITH MY FAITH."
Some, however, are still trusting in the plan. As one YouTube user with no inside knowledge of the matter wrote, "A lot going on behind the scenes, military is in control and we have been watching the biggest take down of our Gov. in history, so pray!"
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