Who’s the Supreme Court Leaker?
If for some reason you haven’t read the remarkable Jan Crawford piece about how John Roberts changed his vote on health care, then you really should. As Jonathan Cohn points out, Crawford is well-sourced and highly credible on matters involving legal conservatives, and she based her account on “two sources with specific knowledge of the deliberations.”
The obvious next question, as Orin Kerr writes, is “who leaked”? Kerr speculates that the leakers were justices, since it’s the kind of transgression that would be a career-ender for a clerk, and a clerk is really the only other person who might know what happened. But, then, which justices? Jason Zengerle says Clarence Thomas is one likely candidate, since he was a hero of Crawford’s recent book and granted her several high-profile interviews around the same time.