Justices Kagan and Barrett on the SCOTUS Leaks
Justices Kagan and Barrett on the SCOTUS Leaks All nine justices are frustrated by leaks yet confidential information somehow keeps leaking. Josh Blackman | 7.27.2026 11:30 PM Over the past decade or so, I have written quite a bit about Supreme Court leaks. For a time, Joan Biskupic had the inside scoop.
- ▪Justices Kagan and Barrett on the SCOTUS Leaks All nine justices are frustrated by leaks yet confidential information somehow keeps leaking.
- ▪Josh Blackman | 7.27.2026 11:30 PM Over the past decade or so, I have written quite a bit about Supreme Court leaks.
- ▪For a time, Joan Biskupic had the inside scoop.
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Justices Kagan and Barrett on the SCOTUS Leaks All nine justices are frustrated by leaks yet confidential information somehow keeps leaking. Josh Blackman | 7.27.2026 11:30 PM Over the past decade or so, I have written quite a bit about Supreme Court leaks. For a time, Joan Biskupic had the inside scoop. Indeed, Barrett relayed in her books that she had private conversations with the Justices. I've heard that Chief Justice Roberts, in particular, felt burned that Biskupic published information that was supposed to be off-the-record. So it goes. But after Justice Ginsburg's death, Biskupic's information largely dried up. Of course, Josh Gerstein at Politico got the Dobbs leak, but that was a one-off. Gerstein has not published any more inside information.
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