Congressman Mike Waltz from Florida feigned outrage that the person responsible for leaking the memo (which ultimately reversed Roe V Wade) hasn't been found -- and with no proof -- blamed "the left."
On Fox Business, the Congressman said, "We know which side this leak came from, and it astounds me that we can't find it, and I think the damage is going to be everlasting to the credibility of the Supreme Court." Waltz said.
Rep. Waltz did his best to defend the poor, maligned, kangaroo Supreme Court justices and used a typical talking point around "conservative victimhood."
"Imagine if the leak had been on the other side? And we had a liberal justice's life threatened by some MAGA hat-wearing potential assassin? They would have the entire federal government turn out to find this individual," Waltz said.
Varney jumped in with a warning. "The deliberative process has been corrupted and could be corrupted again."
Yet, when Speaker Pelosi's husband was attacked with a hammer in their home by a MAGA lover, Republicans either developed a sick conspiracy theory, or said nothing.
What Waltz and Republicans have failed to discuss was, were the Supreme justices interviewed over the leak?
As Bloomberg reports in the released report on the leak investigation, "Were the justices ever questioned? The court won’t say, spurring a fresh round of doubt about the institution’s chances of rebuilding record low public trust."
"The report stated that the investigation “focused” on law clerks and “permanent employees” without specifying if it also encompassed the justices. Another section seemed to draw a distinction between “employees” who had access to the draft opinion and the justices."
The leaked memo could have easily come from one of the conservative justices or their clerks.
It may have been, let's say, Alito who had it leaked to gauge how the American people would take it before they issued the ruling. Or to force another justice into a corner to vote to overturn Roe.
Regardless, it wasn't the leaking of the memo that is the biggest crime. It is the lying conservative justices that claimed Roe V Wade was settled law and then overturned the 49-year law and took away a woman's ability to control her own body.
