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Supreme Court staffers bitter over justices getting a pass during leak investigation

"It’s hard to imagine any of them suffering meaningful consequences even if they were implicated in the leak.”https://t.co/exsJJWMcpe

— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 21, 2023

Quelle surprise:

In an interview with the Times, one court staffer complained, "They weren’t subjected to the same level of scrutiny. It’s hard to imagine any of them suffering meaningful consequences even if they were implicated in the leak.”

Attorney Mark Zaid agreed, saying failure to adequately press the justices, "just completely undermines the court’s credibility. It sends a message of superiority that does not exist under the eyes of the law.”

True, but as I said, there are only three ways off the Supreme Court bench, and none of the three were going to be exercised by anybody fingered for the leak.  Roberts knew this. 

"In interviews, some employees said the leak and investigation further tainted the atmosphere inside a court that had already grown tense with disagreement. The leak spurred finger pointing, they said, with many conservatives convinced that a liberal had engineered the breach and vice versa. Just as the justices have grown more divided, so has their staff, eroding trust. Voices are more hushed now, the employees said, and doors that used to be open are closed," she wrote before adding, "In recent months, as the court has completed its report, new clerks have taken their places inside the chambers. Security is tightening. Further protocol changes are promised. And with the release of the report, a growing recognition has taken hold, some employees say: The best chance of understanding who leaked the most consequential decision in generations, and what that person was trying to achieve, is fading away."

Somebody shit in the punch bowl, but nobody's going to own it.  As for the chances of "understanding who leaked the most consequential decision in generations, and what that person was trying to achieve": that was never a live option.

The Roberts Court is going to go down in Supreme Court history, alright.  Way, way down.