The Supreme Court of the United States, 2024
In yet another brazen breach of the Supreme Court’s confidentiality, internal memos from a pivotal 2016 battle over former President Barack Obama’s controversial Clean Power Plan have been leaked to The New York Times.
The documents, which were never meant to see the light of day for decades, detail a five-day flurry of confidential exchanges among the justices that ultimately led to a 5-4 emergency order blocking Obama’s signature climate regulation.
Chief Justice John Roberts and other conservatives argued the plan would cause “substantial and irreversible” harm to the power sector if allowed to take effect before full review.
Leaks at the high court have become disturbingly frequent, and they almost always seem to be targeting the conservative justices.
The leaked papers show the court grappling with whether to issue an unprecedented stay on the Clean Power Plan, Obama’s aggressive EPA rule aimed at slashing carbon emissions from power plants by 32% by 2030.
Conservative justices emphasized the immediate economic damage the regulation would inflict on utilities and states.
In one memo, Roberts warned, “Absent a stay, the Clean Power Plan will cause (and is causing) substantial and irreversible reordering of the domestic power sector before this court has an opportunity to review its legality.”
Liberal justices pushed back, but the court ultimately sided 5-4 to block the plan, a decision many legal experts now view as the birthplace of the modern “shadow docket,” the fast-track process the Court has increasingly used for emergency rulings on major issues.
WATCH:
LEAKERS ARE SABOTAGING THE SUPREME COURT
And the leaks just so happen to mainly target CONSERVATIVES. One just leaked to the NYT.
Internal memos were leaked regarding challenges to Hussein Obama’s environmental scam agenda.
FIRE THE LEAKERS, NOW!
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— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 21, 2026
This is far from the first time the Supreme Court has been hit by damaging leaks.
The leak of the 2022 Dobbs draft opinion, which overturned Roe v. Wade, remains unsolved despite an internal investigation.
It is time to identify the leakers, fire them immediately, and impose real consequences for their acts of sabotage.
Fox News reports:
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, has been among the most vocal dissenters in emergency cases during President Donald Trump’s second term as the president frequently benefits from the fast-paced docket. Jackson is sometimes joined by her two liberal colleagues, Kagan and Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in her dissents, and emergency cases have often split 6-3 in favor of Trump.
Last week, Jackson aired her grievances in a different forum, blasting emergency docket decisions during a Yale Law School speech as rushed, “scratch-paper musings” that undermine the high court’s purpose.
“Given the real world facts that a stay request asks the court to consider, the court’s stay decisions can, at times, come across utterly irrational,” Jackson said. “We cannot expect the public to have faith in our judicial system if, without clear explanation, we consistently greenlight harmful acts.”
The Supreme Court has not yet issued an official statement on the latest leak.
Chief Justice Roberts previously called a prior breach “absolutely appalling” and an “egregious breach of trust,” but no leaker has ever been publicly identified or punished.
The Gateway Pundit will continue monitoring for any official response from the Court or new developments in the investigation.
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