Download This PaperBetraying the Bench: Could the SCOTUS Leaker Face Criminal Charges? [Wall Street Journal]
4 Pages Posted: 31 May 2022
Date Written: May 12, 2022
Abstract
A federal judge and two former federal prosecutors disagree with widespread claims, made in the context of the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft opinion on abortion, that a federal law clerk who leaks court-confidential information cannot face criminal charges. Perkins Coie partner T. Markus Funk, Dechert LLP partner Andrew S. Boutros, and U.S. District Court Judge Virginia M. Kendall discuss federal statutes under which criminal charges are possible.
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Funk, PhD, T. Markus and Boutros, Andrew S. and Kendall, Virginia M., Betraying the Bench: Could the SCOTUS Leaker Face Criminal Charges? [Wall Street Journal] (May 12, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4108316 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4108316
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