Supreme court releases final report from investigation into who leaked Dobbs draft

The U.S. Supreme Court released a statement Thursday afternoon announcing that investigators could not determine who was behind the leak of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last year.

Alito said late last year that the leak of the draft in May 2022 made the “majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.”

The Supreme Court released the report along with an unsigned statement that called the leak “one of the worst breaches of trust” in the court’s history. “The leak was no mere misguided attempt at protest,” the statement said. “It was a grave assault on the judicial process.”

“The Chief Justice assigned the task to the Marshal of the Supreme Court and her staff,” the statement continued. “After months of diligent analysis of forensic evidence and interviews of almost…