Senator Ted Cruz speculates on Supreme Court leaker, but admits he has ‘no proof’

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz admitted Thursday that he had “no evidence” about the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion that apparently noted the pending reversal of Roe vs. Wade, but later added that “very likely” it came from a secretary of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.

“I think it’s very, very likely that it’s a paralegal. And it is very, very likely that he is a paralegal to one of the three liberal judges,” Cruz (R-TX) said, before specifying that he believed the clerk worked with Sotomayor. a person appointed by former President Barack Obama, “because she is the most partisan of the judges.”

“And then you’re more likely to hire wild-eyed partisans as employees,” he said on his podcast. Verdict with Ted Cruz Thursday. The senator later clarified on the program: “I have no record of that. I’m just making an inference.”

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Since the leak of Judge Samuel Alito’s draft opinion on Monday, the high court has verified that the draft is “authentic.” However, he stressed that the draft does not represent the final opinion that the justices have not yet issued, according to a joint statement issued Tuesday by the court’s public information office and Chief Justice John Roberts.

Cruz only kept open his musings on “three liberal justices,” not even mentioning the possibility that any of the remaining six Republican-appointed justices and their clerks could be the originators of the leaked draft.

“That means there are 12 human beings who are your likely pool of suspects,” he said, adding: “That’s not a huge pool of likely suspects.”

Cruz was a clerk in the mid-1990s for then Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The Princeton University and Harvard Law School graduate is now a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Public tensions have risen across the country that the nearly half-century precedent establishing legal abortions across the country could soon be returned to the authority of states to make sweeping decisions about limits on abortion procedures.

Roberts ordered the court bailiff to investigate the source of the leak on Tuesday. So far, there has been no word on possible suspects or the nature of the investigation despite calls from some Republican lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, for Justice Department involvement.

A large security fence was erected around the high court on Wednesday night in response to protests over the draft ruling in Dobbs. v Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which seemed to indicate that most justices are prepared to allow a 15-week abortion ban to stand in Mississippi, while authorizing states like Texas and Oklahoma to set abortion bans as low as six weeks after abortion. gestation.

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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has scheduled a vote for Wednesday of next week on codification. Roe become law, though Democrats likely lack the support to achieve a two-thirds majority to pass such legislation.

A final decision on dobbs it is expected sometime between now and the end of June.