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Media Refuses to Disclose Identity of SCOTUS Leaker: a Democrat Supreme Court Clerk and Abortion Rights Activist
The leaker's name in the Dobbs draft opinion is significant because of their attempt to manipulate SCOTUS by making both the Justices and their families targets of violence and assassination.
The American people have been subjected to months of gaslighting by corporate media regarding the identity of the person who is suspected of leaking the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization draft decision. Shortly after Politico published it, the identity of the alleged leaker spread quickly throughout Washington. However, corporate media made a universal decision to protect the leaker's identity. Despite publishing numerous stories speculating about the leaker's identity for months, they have never mentioned the name that they believe is the alleged leaker. The reason why the suspect's name is newsworthy is that they attempted to manipulate the Supreme Court by making the Justices targets for assassination, which put their families at risk of intimidation and violence.1
Corporate media quickly formed a consensus that Amit Jain, a Supreme Court Clerk, was the alleged leaker of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, only a few hours after Politico published it.2 However, the debate was not about the identity of the leaker but rather whether or not it was newsworthy to reveal their name. Harvard Professor Glenn Cohen cautioned that the focus on the "leak and the mystery of the leak" could divert attention from the opinion's content and implications.3 Suddenly, the alleged leaker was portrayed as a brave whistleblower standing up to corrupt justices who were determined to undermine democracy. As a result, the decision was made to protect the identity of the leaker whistleblower.
Amit has a long-standing history of advocating for civil disobedience and strongly believes that breaking the rules is sometimes necessary. As an illustration, while still a student at Yale, Amit co-authored an article for The Nation advocating for civil disobedience, “Unfortunately, Dean Gerken’s article mischaracterizes both the protest that we and around 20 other students helped organize against Charles Murray in October 2016 and the treatment of civil-rights lawyers in the South. If anything, our legal training has taught us that civility has its limits and that disruption, creative protest, and rule-breaking are valid and often necessary tactics to effect change.”4
Even though the identity of the prime suspect was newsworthy, there was a deliberate attempt on social media to stifle any conversation regarding the Dobbs leak that involved Amit's name. Some users who mentioned Amit's name were merely criticized, while others faced suspension, whether temporary or permanent.
Even late-night comedians like Trevor Noah (who certainly knows the actual name of the alleged leaker) criticized the media for focusing on the identity of the leaker instead of the consequences of the Dobbs decision stating,
“Many people are horrified — not that women and half the country would lose their rights over their own bodies, but rather that this information got leaked, which is weird. It’s like running around the deck of the Titanic trying to figure out who yelled, ‘We’re sinking’ instead of focusing on the iceberg.”5
Noah then went on to share a number of theories about the identity of the leaker - none of which included the name of the Supreme Court Clerk everyone in corporate media believes leaked the draft opinion. The fact that Noah didn’t include Amit Jain’s name in his exhaustive list of potential leakers is telling.
While corporate media was busy getting their story straight, John Stemberger’s Florida Family Policy Council didn’t get the memo as they released a press release revealing the identity of the alleged leaker that was being widely discussed in the media and in Washington DC stating,
“There is some circumstantial evidence that it’s possible that a law clerk attorney for Justice Sonia Sotomayor, named Amit Jain, could be the source of the leak of the draft decision. Matt Wolking, a political advisor, and Republican communications strategist tweeted last night: “As a Yale student, Jain blasted Yale for supporting Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination. Jain was quoted in a 2017 Politico piece by Josh Gerstein. Today, Gerstein published the draft of the SCOTUS opinion on Roe.”6
The corporate media has known the identity of the alleged leaker for months and yet they continue to publish stories speculating about the identity of the leaker withholding both the identity of the prime suspect and even the fact they’ve known it for six months.7 Ilya Shapiro Dir. Constitutional Studies at the Manhattan Institute’s article in Newsweek titled, Who Leaked the Dobbs Draft?8 is typical of the reporting on the leak as it makes NO mention of Amit Jain.
Democrats and their willing accomplices in the corporate media continue to argue that finding the leaker whistleblower is not just unimportant it would be chilling to future SCOTUS whistleblowers.9 In fact, a consensus on both the right and left seems to agree with Carrie Severino, Justice Thomas' former clerk, who argues that if the leaker's identity is not revealed the "tactic will surely be repeated in the future..."10 Which would be unfortunate as she notes, "the leak has endangered the lives of the justices and their families and undermined the rule of law."
Republicans, on the other hand, have called for criminal charges against the leaker and they’ve even introduced a bill that would make it crystal clear that leaking ANY confidential information from the Supreme Court would be a federal crime.11
While we should ALL be concerned about the identity of the SCOTUS leaker regardless of who it turns out to be, our real concern should be how effectively the corporate media censors and suppresses information they believe damage their political objectives.
Despite all of the censorship on social media, you can still find mentions of the alleged leaker’s name mentioned hundreds if not thousands of times on Twitter. Here are some examples:
To be clear, I personally have no idea who leaked the Dobbs draft opinion to Politico. While I heard that the alleged leaker was a Supreme Court Clerk named Amit Jain from various sources in the hours following the publication of the draft opinion I have no evidence that my sources were correct. Even a cursory search of the internet provides hundreds if not thousands of mentions of Amit Jain being the alleged leaker of the Dobbs decision. In fact, Amit Jain was identified as the alleged leaker of the Dobbs v. Jackson draft opinion by members of corporate media and groups like the Florida Family Policy Council just hours after its publication in Politico.
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