Senate Republicans will reintroduce the bill Thursday to impose criminal penalties on individuals who leak sensitive information related to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn, and Mississippi’s Cindy Hyde Smith. Supreme Court’s leakage laws will be suspended. The law requires that individuals who leak information from the Supreme Court pay a $10,000 fine and serve in prison for up to 10 years, according to a text from the bill obtained by the Daily Carrera News Foundation. The bill also requires that leakers seize any profits they may obtain from disclosing confidential information. (Related: “Clear Violation” – Congressional Republicans discuss plans to fire each federal judge)
The Supreme Court has been shaken by several prominent cases of leaks that make internal judicial deliberations available to the public.
“A Supreme Court leakage must be a criminal offence. A leakage threatens the safety of justice, damages the reputation of the court and puts life at risk,” Cassidy told DCNF. “They have to be accountable, not praised.”
WASHINGTON, DC – March 11: US Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) speaks to reporters following the weekly Republican Senate Policy Luncheon held at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on March 11, 2025. The Senate is poised to the House of Representatives with a Republican six-month government funding bill before the government could close later this week, but the law requires the House to be cleaned first. (Photo: Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Private memos and other court documents that appear to be linked to three major cases involving President Donald Trump have been leaked to the New York Times Report Released in September 2024.
A longtime court observer previously told the DCNF that a high-level member of the court’s liberal minority was likely responsible for the leak.
Cassidy and Sen at the time. Previously Marco Rubio It was introduced The bill for June 2022 is Roev. Dobbsv overturned Wade. This follows unprecedented leaks of opinions in the case of Jackson Women’s Health Organization. Rubio is currently serving as US Secretary of State. Judicial experts believe the unprecedented leaks were coordinated to influence judicial decision-making and undermine court integrity.
The court did not identify anyone who leaked the draft Dobbs ruling into politics despite Roberts’ ordering the former Supreme Court to investigate the leak.
“The Suspension Supreme Court’s Leakage Act is a critical law and will ensure that court work is free from unnecessary external interference by cracking down on those who leak confidential information,” Blackburn told DCNF.
The unprecedented leak over the past few years “just undermine public trusts and the Supreme Court as an institution,” Hyde Smith said.
Previous versions of Cassidy’s bill failed to advance in the then democratic Senate.
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