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The speaker says the court has faced “another series of leaks” in recent days, including leaked private papers of Supreme Court justices that the speaker says “by law belong to them.” The speaker describes this as part of a long-running pattern, citing earlier leaks of an unpublished internal draft opinion, including one connected to the Dobbs decision.
The speaker claims multiple leaks occurred from February and January 2016 to the press, which the New York Times attributes to the Supreme Court’s “supposed failure to address the global climate crisis.” The speaker links these leaks to what they describe as a coordinated effort to undermine the Supreme Court’s independence by browbeating the court into decisions favored by “the left,” and by threatening consequences such as packing the court with new justices, personal threats to the justices, leaking of their papers, and threats to their security.
The speaker says they have worked at the court and litigated it as a private lawyer and as the attorney general of the state of Missouri, and that what is happening is an “absolutely a coordinated effort to destroy the court,” “years in the making.” They trace the alleged campaign to President Obama criticizing justices personally in the House chamber, and they say criticism of the court by President Trump has been met with less attention than Obama’s actions.
The speaker also cites several events they say reflect pressure on the court: an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh; and they claim Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer threatened justices by name at the Supreme Court steps. They further reference a coordinated leak intended to derail the Dobbs opinion.
The speaker adds that they believe “dark money groups” funded illegal protests at justices’ homes after an assassination attempt on justices, and they say the Biden Justice Department and FBI did not stop these protests despite their illegality. The speaker claims the protests continued for months and repeatedly threatened justices’ security without sufficient response.
The speaker refers to the New York Times describing its reporting as based on private papers plus interviews with ten former court employees who spoke anonymously because, as quoted by the speaker, “Confidentiality was a condition of their employment,” and the speaker says the employees violated their employment agreements to expose private deliberations to damage the court’s independence.
The speaker concludes by calling for hearings to “follow the money,” asking who funded the protests at the justices’ homes and where the funding for the multi-year pressure campaign is coming from, describing the effort as “a clear and present danger” to the operation of the Constitution.