Supreme Court leak claim: Senate Judiciary panel to review 2014 breach claim - Axios

Sen. Dick Durbin speaks astatine the U.S. Capitol successful May. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) announced his sheet is reviewing "serious allegations" successful a New York Times study Saturday that a 2014 Supreme Court ruling was leaked to a erstwhile anti-abortion activistic weeks successful advance.

The latest: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), who seat courts subcommittees, wrote to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to inquire whether immoderate enactment had been taken implicit the alleged 2014 leak and suggested they'd analyse if not, Politico archetypal reported Sunday night.

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• "If the Court, arsenic your missive suggests, is not consenting to undertake fact-finding inquiries into imaginable morals violations that leaves Congress arsenic the lone forum," they wrote, successful notation to earlier correspondence with Roberts about reports that a spiritual radical had allegedly tried to power justices.

Driving the news: Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote bulk opinions successful some the 2014 Hobby Lobby contraception and religious-liberty lawsuit and the leaked draught opinion of the Supreme Court's determination to overturn Roe v Wade, has said immoderate proposition that helium oregon his woman disclosed the 2014 ruling aboriginal to anyone was "false."

• Former anti-abortion person the Rev. Rob Schenck told the NYT that Gayle Wright, a donor to the evangelical enactment helium past ran, informed him of the decision. However, Wright "denied obtaining oregon passing on immoderate specified information," the NYT reports.

What they're saying: Whitehouse and Johnson (D-Ga.) joined Durbin successful urging chap Congress members to walk authorities requiring a codification of morals for Supreme Court justices, AP reported Sunday evening.

• In a connection the lawmakers called the NYT report "another achromatic people connected the Supreme Court's progressively marred ethical record" and vowed to "get to the bottommost of these superior allegations," per AP.

Read Sen. Whitehouse and Rep. Johnson's missive to Chief Justice Roberts, obtained by Politico, via DocumentCloud:

Editor's note: This nonfiction has been updated with details of the missive from Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Hank Johnson to Chief Justice John Roberts.