Supreme Court Probe Fails to Identify Who Leaked Opinion (2)

The US Supreme Court said it had failed to identify the culprit after an eight-month investigation into last year’s unprecedented leak of its opinion overturning the constitutional right to abortion.

The court said in a statement Thursday that the investigative team “has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence.”

In a 20-page report, Supreme Court Marshal Gail Curley said investigators examined the court’s aging computer systems for clues and interviewed 97 employees, all of whom denied disclosing the opinion. She said her team was still pursuing a few lines of inquiry but ...