trust has just announced that it failed to learn who is responsible for that unprecedented leak of the decision overturning roe v. wade last spring. that dropped opinion would ultimately be the opinion issued by the court in a highly polarizing decision to remove a constitutional right held for 50 years in america. from the new york times reporting on this developing story, quote, in a 20-page report, the court s martial said that investigators had conducted 126 formal interviews of employees all of whom had denied being the source of the leak. investigators found no forensic evidence by examining the court s computer devices and available call and text logs. the washington post adds, quote, justice samuel alito said that the leak was a grave betrayal of trust by somebody and it was a shock that led to a changed atmosphere at the court and made his colleagues in the majority, quote, targets for assassination. the threat to the justices, he added was not theoretical becaus
egregiously wrong and deeply damaging. the three liberal justices dissenting, warning the ruling will lead to the curtailment of women s rights and of their status as free and equal citizens. on capitol hill, the reaction was swift. disgraceful. disgraceful judgment. it s absolutely a major issue on the ballot. largest governmental overreach in the history of our lifetime. kevin mccarthy told cnn he supports codifying a 15-week abortion ban at the national level. the supreme court upheld mississippi s 15-week ban in its ruling overturning roe. with the support of chief justice john roberts, who opposed overturning roe entirely. the right to life has been vindicated. the voiceless will finally have a voice. congressional democrats left with little recourse, given they lack 60 votes in the senate to overcome a gop filibuster. the senator from my state, the senator from west virginia, if you say you re for women, then do not use an old law that was not even, again,
This is what we do. We protest when we disagree and i dont think theres any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they dont believe in it. Im not suggesting support tonights nominee but dont plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. And that is where we are. Were at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening. Thanks, my friend. Thank you for joining us at this hour. This is a big important historic news day. Good to have you here. Thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. Antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow Supreme Court justices. Even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most in terms of their day jobs. They loved his company. Justice scalia and Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg they shared
leak. there s an alleged leak that the times reported on on the hobby lobby case. but it s the spilling out of information before decision an official decision by the court is issued. there is reporting, news reporting and a whistle-blower who i believe has also testified before congress of a spillover in the hobby lobby case as well. do you see an entity that actually wants to get to the bottom of their leaks/previewing of decisions? i think the institution is conflicted because of the fingerprints that may be found on that leak. so in the hobby lobby case, you have a situation where a leak was put out into the ether to a specific individual or group of individuals who were supportive and needed to know or have the advantage of knowing ahead of time what this decision was going to be, that it was, hey, we re all good here. all the right boxes were checked.
right, that when we re talking about the precedent that there are two things going on here being the precedent saying privacy and fundamental right to control your own body, right? those are very important court issues, and we heard justices on the supreme court like justice thomas saying, but really, it s not in the constitution and therefore, there really is no right. well, if that is true, and if that is the direction they go and if they say you don t really have that kind of privacy, right? that folks like people who are of the same sex who get married. there was a finding of a fundamental right to marriage equality as a result of a lot of fighting by advocates to get this case the supreme court and finally get it upheld, and that s at risk and the other part of this that i think is so important to understand is, we