Report of investigation into Dobbs leak
20 January 2023
Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court issued a report of its investigation into last year’s leak of the draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. The Court’s investigation was conducted by the Office of the Marshal and reviewed by The Chertoff Group, headed by Michael Chertoff. While the marshal’s report does not identify the leaker, it does refer to some “gaps in the Court’s security policies,” which, together with “[t]he pandemic and resulting expansion of the ability to work from home, ... created an environment where it was too easy to remove sensitive information from the building and the Court’s IT networks, increasing the risk of both deliberate and accidental disclosures of Court-sensitive information.” To read the full public report, follow this link.