The Supreme Court said it could not find a source of opinion on abortion

WASHINGTON – On Thursday, the Supreme Court said it had not determined who leaked the draft court decision to repeal the right to abortion, but the investigation is ongoing.

Eight months after Politico published its explosive leak detailing the draft opinion of Judge Samuel Alito that overturned Roe v. Wade, the court said its investigation team “to date is unable to identify the person responsible for most of the evidence.” “.

Never before has a full opinion been made known to the public before the court was ready to deliver it.

The following day, Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into what he called a “flagrant breach of trust”.

Investigators “conducted 126 official interrogations of 97 employees, all of whom refused to disclose the conclusion,” the court said in a statement.

The investigation concluded that “it is unlikely that the information technology (IT) systems of the Court have been tampered with by a person outside the Court” after examining the court’s computers, networks, printers, and available call logs and text messages.

The report says that “the risk of both intentional and accidental disclosure of sensitive information to the court” has grown with the coronavirus pandemic and the move to work from home. The report said that the increase in people working from home “as well as gaps in the court’s security policy created an environment in which it was all too easy to remove sensitive information from the building and the court’s IT networks.”

Investigators continue to “review and process some of the electronic data that has been collected and several other investigations are pending,” the report said.