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Could SCOTUS leaker be charged with crime? Espionage Act wouldn’t apply, but other laws might

By on May 13, 2022 in Criminal Law

“Could the person who leaked U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s draft abortion opinion be charged with a crime?,” reports Debra Cassens Weiss in ABA Journal.

“It’s possible, even though the Espionage Act wouldn’t apply, say experts who wrote for Bloomberg Law and spoke with ReutersWiredPolitiFact and the Washington Post. That law applies to classified information, and a court opinion is not classified.”

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