Possible Source of Leak

Will Chamberlain thinks he may have identified the source of the leak at the supreme court. Chamberlain stresses that he has no inside sources but that this is purely speculative and is based on publicly available sources. A few of Chamberlain’s Tweets are below.

Meet Elizabeth Deutsch. She's currently a law clerk for Justice Breyer.

And, in my humble opinion, she's the most likely person to have leaked the draft Supreme Court opinion in Dobbs, purporting to overturn Roe v. Wade.

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— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 4, 2022

So, to conclude:

We have a currently-serving Supreme Court law clerk whose career has been almost solely focused on abortion.

She wrote her law school note on abortion.
She wrote op-eds about reproductive rights.
She spent a year working on abortion for the ACLU.
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 4, 2022

She clerked for a stridently pro-choice appellate judge.

And it just so happens that her husband is a journalist, who shared bylines with Josh Gerstein at Politico, and it looks like they are still buds.
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 4, 2022

I don't know that Elizabeth Deutsch leaked the draft opinion.

But I certainly think someone who has spent much of their academic and professional life fighting to expand the right to get an abortion could be desperate enough to do so.

FIN
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) May 4, 2022

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