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The Supreme Court ended its term Thursday until October, and the identity of the individual who leaked the high court’s Roe v. Wade draft opinion still remains a mystery.
Chief Justice John Roberts on Thursday announced that the court has “acted upon all cases submitted to the Court for decision this Term,” and will be in recess from Thursday until the first Monday in October.
“On behalf of all the Justices, I would like to thank the Supreme Court employees for their outstanding work and dedication to their important responsibilities this Term,” Roberts said in a statement. “I thank the members of the Court’s bar as well for their professionalism and cooperation.”
When the high court returns from its recess in October, newly sworn-in Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson will take retired Justice Stephen Breyer’s seat on the bench.
The conclusion of the term comes less than a week after the Supreme Court delivered its decision to overturn the 1973 landmark case, Roe v. Wade, bringing the issue of abortion back to the states for the first time in nearly 50 years.
A majority draft opinion, reflecting that the high court would, in fact, overturn Roe v. Wade, was leaked in May and first reported by Politico.
The Supreme Court, at the time, acknowledged that a “copy of a draft opinion in a pending case” was made public but stressed that it did “not represent a decision by the Court or the final position of any member on the issues in the case.”
Roberts, at the time, said that the court would “not be affected in any way” by the leak, but called it a “singular and egregious breach” of “trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here.”
Roberts then directed the Marshal of the Court to “launch an investigation in… (Read more)
