of apex courts do it, lots of circuit courts do it. circuit duty of emeritus justices could help reconnect the supreme court with lawyers and justices in the hinterland, a nice echo of the original vision of the court that is incremented by the judiciary act of 1789. so those are the 18 reasons. by the way, i just came up with them in a conversation talking with andy. you can listen to the podcast episode. but he is a retired ophthalmologist, but he is a smart guy and he asked a question and we just talked. he represents a general audience , so i hope you give the podcast a chance. i thought i might have five or six arguments but we just started talking and i was able to get up to 18. here's the last section. but is it constitutional? at the end of this lecture, i will set forth a more detailed description of my proposed reform package. the details will have specific questions for the conversations so be thinking what you want to ask. for now, but need really explain why this proposal is in my view easier -- easily -- by civil statute and not requiring a constitutional amendment. i have mentioned earlier the constitution expressly and

of the supreme court, that is just shocking to me. in addition to that work, was there also travel with supporters of the higher court campaign with justicesof the supreme court, both through vacation destinations, vacation homes, and can you give examples of some trips that the justices took, if any, with supporters of faith and action? >> yes, mister chairman. i was aware that justices alito and scalia had visited the home, second or third home, i'm not sure how they counted it, of the wright family in jacksonville, wyoming. they had both been out there to visit. i was not aware of any other in particular. >> were you aware whether or not be justices travel with their spouses on those trips? >> i don't recall, mister chairman. i would just correct myself, i was aware of one trip that justice scalia took with mr. dawn wright that involved hunting. i think they were quail hunting somewhere, perhaps even south america, i'm not sure. >> thank you. mr. sherman, could you speak to this question? there's been public reporting about this as well. currently, our supreme court justices are permitted to take trips, private trips, with individuals t

most dubious candidates from among the candidates proposed by the ethical council to the supreme court of justicerets are the new members of the supreme council of justice hiding and despite opaque fortunes and numerous scandals, they managed to get to the highest body of judicial governance, we will tell you about all this today, first in the news, representatives of the embassies of the g7 countries and the european union in ukraine gave the president's office recommendations on further steps in the judicial reform, in particular, they relate to the continuation of the reform taking into account the unblocking of work of the supreme council of justice and the restarting of the supreme qualification commission of judges, seven expressed the hope that ukraine will make further progress in judicial reform and the election of eight members of the people's party of ukraine were congratulated. the higher anti-corruption court announced the verdict of the judge of the kyiv administrative court, oleksandra braginia. she was found guilty of intentional non- declaration of property in 2020 and 2021. sign

supreme court, endowed with the right to overturn the decision of parliaments, contrary to the spirit and letter of the basic israeli laws , abuses this right. only on the eve of the supreme court of justicewealth you did not find a verdict that netanyahu's ally, the leader of the orthodox separatist party xas arierri , previously convicted twice for deceiving public trust and for tax fraud, cannot be appointed minister of the interior, however, binyamy netanyahu himself is on trial, which only adds arguments to his current opponents, trying to gain influence on the appointment of judges. he just wants to save himself from here and prison. however, activists or years do not consider legal reform an attack on the historic israeli democracy, the ben-gurion system is not perfect, the time comes for problems to be corrected and solved by parliamentary methods. not on the street, these are the reinforced wills of the majority of the desire to correct the imbalance in relations. branches of power. no need to see here. attacks on democracy insist leaders of the religious and settlement movement the country does not threaten, nor fill it, especially the civil war in the modern world since the fre

we must infer from this report that no supreme court justice, and no spouse of the supreme court justice was interviewed, because the report doesn't specifically say that. we have to infer that. we would never even hint at the possibility that any supreme court justice or spouse was interviewed. at the conclusion of the end is ill interviews, each additional employee was asked to sign an affidavit under penalty of perjury affirming that she or he did not disclose the dog's draft opinion to any person not employed by the supreme court. each of these employees signed a sworn affidavit. a few of those interviewed admitted to telling their spouses about the draft opinion or vote count, so they annotated their affidavits to those effects. the interviews provided very few leads concerning who may have publicly disclose the document. the report says that the investigators studied any connections between employees and reporters, and the report says this. investigators also carefully evaluated whether personnel may have had reason to disclose the court's draft decision for strategic reasons. the

left until september. to restore the work of the high council of justice and the supreme qualification commission of judges of the supreme courtf justice. that is , these are self-governing bodies of judicial power. igor, what items perhaps interested you the most and what did you pay attention to? i would usually talk about structural reforms and effective management. assigned to the ukrainian customs, we talk about the fact that this is such a problematic area of ​​the ukrainian state administration, i would draw attention to it, besides, we are talking about improving the management of large state companies know that such a reform began, then it stopped a little in connection with covid, then the war. but nevertheless, the issue was and remains important, as is the adoption of a plan with deregulation and improvement of the business climate. i think that this is an element not only of aid to ukraine, but actually preparation for the future reconstruction , because the european union and ukraine are interested in receiving not only state funds of international institutions, but also private business funds. given to energy, t

it is only growing, the supreme court of justice extended the ban, which concerns the impossibility foro leave the territory of moldova tell in practice for you. this changes something after the criminal cases are opened. it all started almost 2 years ago. well, a year and a half ago, uh began. hmm, after they removed the prosecutor general, they put their e on most of the opposition leaders. they began to open criminal cases. hinted many times. what do you need to flee the country? decided to stay here, uh, and starting from last may , first 6 months. i was under house arrest after that for the third month. uh, i was forbidden to leave well, as i said, we were not going to run away and are not going to. therefore, we will continue to fight. here next to our supporters next to our people. i drive actively. now in the region almost every two days, in particular, by the people and e. i am sure that we will be able to change the situation in the republic, the people are waiting for this and we must do it . here, and representatives of different religions serve their country to the shoulder

what was it like trying to convince the supreme court justice to sit down for 24 hours of interview. it was not easy and it is the longest interview ever granted of filmmaker by any supreme court justice. let alone one that's been reluctant to be interviewed. but the film evolved and at each stage, i was very honest and open with him and we came to we were originally planning to do a traditional documentary interview 15 people from all periods in his life and all points of view, but i quickly realized that his voice would be lost. and he was the best teller of his own. own story in this way. he tells you what he thinks and you can accept it or reject it and this is why i think pbs was enthusiastic. it doesn't say this is the truth. it says this is the way class thomas saw his life and if you want to understand him and understand his recent supreme court rulings, it's worth understanding who he is and where he comes from so he followed the evolution and and he committed to doing the film and one of the things about justice thomas is he's very stubborn. he agrees to do something. he sti

court of justice. they are launching a war against any kind of justice, including there is the 80 on supreme court of justice. so this that i can government is going to change the horn way. it looks, especially in the eyes of the international community. the previous governments were also, as we are, for us, at least as palestinians. we cannot say that the previous governments will be better. i'm now they started to be, this is, but now these, this is, the government is coming to the world without makeup, without it they, they not only hi, this is they show they are, this is and they don't care. but typically, i'm sorry. do you think that this position of is ready government and in particular, the return of netanyahu? i mean, do you think these orders, these political positions reflect the will of the general population of israel? unfortunately, this is a, our concern. our concern is not on the why is it been via as model which are as is our concern is how did they manage to get the support of the majority of the people and unfortunately is ready to be. but is there any more sense? i guess i'm not understand

the office of supreme court justice. >> of theof supreme court justice. >> according to the best of my ability. >> according to the best of my ability. >> that is justice kira harris bolden. her appointment comes at a significant time for michigan's supreme court. last year the court had a number of key decisions. they ordered an abortion rights initiative to appear on the november ballot, banned discrimination against lgbtq people and ruled that one-person grand juries can't issue indictments against state officials. it led to charges being dismissed against a former governor in connection with the flint water crisis. this term the court also has a lot on its plate. justice bolden's appointment is not only historic, wait until you hear her family's legacy of injustice in the hands of the legal system. >> one day this little girl came to me and said ms. kyra, can girls go to college? i looked at her and said, yes, i'm a girl. i'm in college. she turns to the little girl next to her and says, see, i told you. >> reporter: little gi

of trust to the filmmaker and then broadcast on pbs. host: h the co-author describes him as a greatest supreme court justice of all time. >> that a is mark. i'm a documentary filmmaker. i'm not an expert of the supreme court. i do think itt is true that he is now one of the most strongest influence on thee supreme court. they call it the roberts court butge i think perhaps he is the strongest influence at the moment. that is we encourage people to read the book and see the movie that whatever the politics we wanted a broad swath of america. >> one of the themes that came out in the book is that justice thomas would like to take a longer view. >> i think that's true. >> but the way he sees the declaration of independence come i thank you can understand it if you follow the life story. english is not his first language and his father raised him. when he is abouted six or seven years old they moved to savannah and he said he went from rural poppy to urban squalor. when the food on hungry. and then after two years and his grandfather to raise. but then the vacation is over. and then have to go to school everyday with discipline and hard work

and representatives of legal elites, the chairman of the supreme court is a member of the supreme court as a candidate for the supreme council of justice evaluated by the ethical council specially created based on the recommendations of international partners and in accordance with the requirements of the eu which consists of three ukrainian judges nominated by the council of judges, as well as a retired judge of the court of appeal of england and wales, a former judge of the supreme court of the state of massachusetts and a former general the prosecutor of the republic of estonia, the critical council checked all applicants for compliance with the criteria of professional ethics and integrity due to inadequacy for a high position, many candidates were screened out , but not all of them, some of them, despite their extremely dubious reputation , managed to break through and take the coveted seat in the vrp, positions for the next four years were taken by yuliya bokova, alla kotlevets, olga popikova , oleksandr sasevich, hryhoriy usyk, tetiana bondarenko, olena cowboy and serhiy burlakov , all the ethics council proposed for appointment

supreme court, endowed with the right to overturn the decision of the knesset parliament, contrary to the spirit and letter of basic israeli laws, abuses this right. just the day before, the supreme court of wealth justiceuled that the ally of the netanyawol is the leader of the orthodox sefar shas arrier party. deri twice earlier, convicted of defrauding public trust and tax fraud, cannot to be appointed minister of the interior, however, benyami netanyahu himself is on trial, which only adds arguments to his current opponents, trying to gain influence on the appointment of judges. he just wants to save himself from here and prison. however , easygoing activists do not consider the legal reform to be an attempt on the historic israeli democracy, the ben-gurion system is not perfect , when the time comes, problems are revealed that need to be corrected and solved in parliamentary methods. not on the street, it is the reinforced will of the majority of desires fix the transition in the relationship. branches of power. no need to see here. attacks on democracy insist the leaders of the religious and settlement movement in the country do not threaten to fulfill, especially since the civil war in the modern

and it was a lot of trust in the filmmaker, he didn't see it until was broadcast on pbs. >> host: you describe him, you and your co-author describe him as the greatest supreme court justice of all time. wise that? >> guest: i don't consider myself next on the supreme court. i'm a documentary filmmaker. it is surely true that he is one of the most -- a strong influence on the supreme court. many people thought of the roberts court but i think he is perhaps the strongest influence at the moment and that is why it is important for people to read the book and see the movie and understand him, whatever their politics. we want to the film to be on pbs because we wanted a broad swath of america to see that. >> host: one of the themes that came out in the interview is justice thomas likes to take the longer view. >> guest: that is true. we call the film "ceated equal: clarence thomas in his own words". 's life is based on the way he sees the declaration of independence, those core principles and how they are realized in the constitution. i think you can understand it if you follow his life's story, you know this yourself but maybe not all your listeners, he's born in georgia off

amounted to an unprecedented breach of court secrecy outside of published opinions and a whirlwind of protest outside the court and even in front of supreme court justices homes. >> republicans expressed outrage over the leaks consequences which included the arrest of a man prosecutors say plan to kill justice brett kavanaugh. and that situation, as we all know, got real serious. >> got real serious with the assassination attempt on justice kavanaugh. they've also push for answers on the investigation. there are many secrets in this town. but for some reason, this individual has certainly been sheltered. >> and there absolutely i think evidence that there are specific people they know who this person is and why they have been identified at this point is behind me, the leak and the ultimate decision to overturn roe and leave abortion to the states has ushered in a patchwork of abortion laws at the state level. >> according to the abortion rights aligned, good mocker institute and public reporting post road. 24 states have restricted or are likely to restrict abortion. recent polls like one by pew in july's show 62% of the public supporting abortion right

supreme court, endowed with the right to overturn the decision of the parliament of knesi, contrary to the spirit and spirit of basic israeli laws, abuses this right. just the day before, the supreme court of wealth justice ruled that netanyahu's ally shaz aryerderi, the leader of the orthodox sepharki party, had previously been convicted twice for defrauding public confidence and for tax machinations can not be appointed minister of the interior, and begni himself, by the way. netanyavo is on trial, which only adds to the arguments of his current opponents, trying to gain influence on the appointment of judges. he just wants to save himself from trial and prison. however, activists or years do not consider legal reform an attack on israel's historic democracy, the ben-gurion system, does not quite come the time to uncover problems that need to be corrected and resolved in parliamentary methods. not on the street, it's reinforced wills most desire to straighten out the overbite in a relationship. branches of power. no need to see here. attacks on democracy are insisted by the leaders of the religious and settlement movement in the country that there is no danger of disintegration, and even more so civil

higher council of justice refused to do so stanislav yurchenko head of the swativ district court of luhansk region and he considers himself worthy of the position of a member of the supremencil of justice, although he himself was repeatedly held responsible by it for violating judicial ethics and even the law in 2012 yurchenko himself saved from criminal liability the scandalous roman landik, a member of the luhansk city council from the party of regions and the son of ex-people's deputy volodymyr landik, who was accused of beating a woman who suffered a concussion. the video from surveillance cameras clearly shows how roman landik uses defenseless force in a luhansk restaurant. however, judge yurchenko called it a necessary defense and acquitted regional deputy stanislav yurchenko, who was repeatedly brought to the disciplinary hearing by the high council of justice, a member which he now wants to become. for the first time in 2018, when the judge violated the presumption of innocence for yurchenko in his articles in the newspaper, he repeatedly allowed violations of the rules of judicial ethics, in particular, he published matchmaking information in the local newspaper

about the others out of several 16 members of the supreme court, tell me, the president and the parliament appoint, yes, 10, look at the supreme council of justiceers there ex officio, 10 members are elected from among the judges, and then two members each - this is the parliament, the verkhovna rada the president of ukraine, the congress of lawyers, the congress of representatives of higher educational legal institutions and the conference of prosecutors, that is, there are also competitions now, and according to the quota, i am holding the congress of the congress of scientists, the conference of prosecutors at the presidential equivalent er, but the authority of the supreme council of justice depends on the congress of judges, because the constitution says that the majority in this body should be judges elected by judges, that is, the quota of the congress of judges is the largest, and in fact, without its filling, the body will not be able to work, therefore it is actually very important that its judges now still fill their own and the total number of members of the supreme council of ukraine. what is the total number of members and what are

of the supreme court . bad, or not all of them are. i believe that all of them will be acted upon as the previous supreme council of justice acted, therefore, and indeed you are right, and we are reloading almost completely both bodies of the supreme court commission of judges at 100%. the supreme council of justice, only three members are left from 21 after all the checks and all the dismissals. that's why it's a really big chance - it doesn't have a guarantee that we knew it was very bad and now it's just going to be perfect . unfortunately, it won't happen yet, but what we're counting on and hoping for. it's really a step. going forward, these bodies must be at least independent, unmanaged from some one center, from the bank there or from some other street, and they must be able to carry out independent selection, and this is actually what we are waiting for, what are we expecting, but mykhailo, what appointed these members of the supreme council of justice. this is an extremely important story. and there were absolutely unambiguous signals from the ambassadors of gsava. we don’t even know who else they came from, but the question remai

took just one generation from segregation into the supreme court of the united states, end of quote. those are the words of our supreme court justice, katanji brown jackson. is dr. king said, give us the ballot and we will place judges on the bench who will do justly, and we are. that's the promise of america, where change is hard but necessary. progress is never easy but is always possible and things do get better on our march toward a more perfect union. but at this inflection point, we know there is a lot of work that has to be done on economic justice, civil rights, voting rights, and protecting our democracy. and i am remembering the job is to redeem the soul of america. [applause] look, i get accused of being an optimist, i call that the irish of it. never on top, always stepped on, but optimistic. dr. king was optimistic. folks, as i said, progress is never easy, but redeeming the soul of the country is absolutely essential. i doubt whether any of us would have thought, even in dr. king's time, the institutional structures of this country may collapse, like we are seeing in was ill and other parts of the world. folks, i will

caller: yes, what is your thought on the supreme court increasing the number of justices on the supremert? dan: i don't think they should increase the number of justices on the supreme court. another thing that i think about bigger picture with regard to the supreme court is i think it does a disservice to the court and all of our judges when you hear people in particular right now on the left trying to impugn the integrity of the court, meaning you can disagree with the court, you can think that the court's rulings are wrong or even biased. but i think when people try to fundamentally undermine the integrity of the court, in essence saying we should not learn to them, i think that is dangerous, dangerous business. we have to have umpires. we have to have people who have the final say. and i get it, that this is a court that has definitely moved to the right, pretty far to the right. but that do not change the reality, in my view, that we have to respect the court, show respect for its rulings even when we disagree and part of that respect is saying we are not going to pack the court wi

the could we from the powers of the supreme court justices of hazel's checking people's freedom and democracy, pos, penetration is also being held in high fat and outside the president's residence in jerusalem. the man conjoined, decide now from 10 of even even the center of the scale and mitigate this sensation . while the organizers were hoping for about 50000 people, we don't know exactly how many people are here, but it certainly feels like it's a significant improvement on the numbers that they got last week and official figures that was about 30000 people. now, this protest movement began when the justice minister proposed changes to the supreme court, saying that it needed to roll back the power of the supreme court, including the power to overturn any parliamentary connected decisions that angered this sabrina book. or she angered a lot of different civil movements here. horrible. come together to protest that, but now it's getting wider. this is now becoming about human rights about minority rights protest. is it a worried that this far right government will bring in changes because

of my ability so help me god. >> congratulations. [applause] gov. hobbs: thank you. chief justice and supreme court justices, secretary of state, attorney general mays, treasurer geek, superintendent horn, governors do see bureau -- members of congress, legislative leaders, tribal leaders, honored guests, and most importantly to the people of arizona, today represents a new chapter in the story of our beloved state. it is a chapter that will be written by you, your families, your neighbors and the communities you love. it is a chapter that will once again prove the power of democracy, the power of the people to make their voice heard in free, fair and secure elections serves as the foundation of what makes our nation the greatest on earth. [applause] your voice and the voices of your fellow citizens, no matter who you voted for has been heard loud and clear at our state capital and across the nation. you embraced the challenge before us and rejected those who seek to divide, to pick arizona in against arizonans, community against community. instead, you send a message it is time your elected offici

lula was a convicted felon. 12 year sentence and released by a supreme court justice and his team of raveling supreme court justices to enter into this election which had no transparency. the protestors who were protesting peacefully, they just wanted evidence that this was an honest election. they didn't get it. as the plot thickens, there were many agents at these buildings and doing gross damage, like breaking windows. this is being used to clamp down on these democratic protests. the campus were disbanded by executive and judicial mandate. now they set up a concentration camp where 1200 brazilian citizens are locked in the gym of the federal police training center in brasilia and 2 have died. no water, no food, no bathrooms. they are being treated in worse circumstances than the geneva convention allows for. even more gross we just found out from a high ranking senator who released documents that proved the justice minister knew about it the day before. and lula knew as well. it looked like there are more similarities with our own. >> tucker: i recognize the tempalate. the country

the notions were high, and people were on edge including the justices of the supreme court themselvesetrayal of the confidences of the court, and tasked the marshall have the court with investigating in. tonight, the court investigated, and say that they -- the court released this statement. after months of diligent analysis and forensic evidence, interviews with almost 100 employees, the marshals team determined that no further investigation was warranted, with respect to many of the 82 employees who had access to electronic or hard copies of the draft opinion. the marshals said that her team conducted 126 formal interviews of 97 employees, and they all denied leaking the draft. well they determined that the courts iced tea systems were not breached, the marshals said that working from home during the pandemic, maybe leaving gaps in the courts security policy. it created an environment where it is too easy to remove sensitive information from the building and the cords i.t. networks. increasing deliberate and accidental disclosures of court sensitive information. even though they hav

amounted to an unprecedented breach of court secrecy outside of published opinions and a whirlwind of protest outside the court and even in front of supreme court justices homes. >> republicans expressed outrage over the leaks consequences which included the arrest of a man prosecutors say planned to kill justice brett kavanaugh. and that situation, as we all know, got real serious. >> got real serious with the assassination attempt on justice kavanaugh. they've also push for answers on the investigation. there are many secrets in this town. >> but for some reason, this individual has certainly been sheltered. and if there absolutely, i think evidence that there are specific people they know who this person is and why they have been identified at this point is beyond me, the leak and the ultimate decision to overturn roe and leave abortion to the states has ushered in a patchwork of abortion laws at the state level. >> according to the abortion rights aligned, good mocker institute and public reporting post road. 24 states have restricted or are likely to restrict abortion. recent polls like one by pew in july's show 62% of the public supporting abortio

immigration laws at the department of justice they refuse to prosecute radical pro-abortion protesters. seeking to intimidate conservative members of the supreme courtment of justice cover-up for biden crime family, refuses to appoint a special counsel. on their foreign dealings and transfer of tens of millions of dollars, into joe biden and his family. directly and indirectly. this server issue with donald trump and joe biden, cover up, fbi didn't go in and investigate, fbi didn't do the searches, it left it to the private lawyers, hillary clinton had a sever in her westchester home, did they use a warrant? though, she had thousands and thousands of government e-mails, and classified information. were of this was destroyed. they still didn't send in fbi s.w.a.t. team, what is that about? but, donald trump gets the trump treatment. s.w.a.t. teams, warrantses, armed fbi agencies, threats of ab obstruction, when they were negotiating with the department of justice on who should get who documents, so, january 6. insurrection they said. does anyone remember when the white house was attacked? over 50 secret service personnel were injured? does anyone wer

amounted to an unprecedented breach of court secrecy outside of published opinions and a whirlwind of protest outside the court and even in front of supreme court justices expressed outrage over the leaks consequences which included the arrest of a man prosecutors say planned to kill justice brett kavanaugh. and that situation, as we all know, got real serious. >> got real serious with the assasiination attempt on justice kavanaugh. they've also push for answers on the investigation. there are many secrets in this town. >> but for some reason, this individual has certainly been absolutely, i think evidence that there are specific people they know who this person is and why they have been identified at this point is beyond me, the leak and the ultimate decision to overturn roe and leave abortion to the states has ushered in a patchwork of abortion laws at the state level. >> according to the abortion rights aligned, good mocker institute and public reporting post road. 24 states have restricted or are likely to restrict abortion. recent polls like one by pew in july's show 62% of the public supporting abortion rights in all or most cases. and that comes

court. >> [chanting]. >> sean: here is mary margaret is with us. what they were chanting? >> see how the leftist protestors demonstrating in front of the homes of supreme court justices for 9n assassination attempt on supreme court justice brett kavanaugh and there is a law that prohibits picketing around the home of a justice to indimitate that judge. that's what we saw last night. we drove out to kavanaugh's home. covering this protest. we talked to some of the marshalls. they told us the protestors are not breaking the law because they were on the sidewalk. i talked to legal experts who said that's just plain wrong. the defendant of justice declined to enforce this law and maryland has declined to enforce this law but a federal law says you can't picket or parade outside the home of a judge to influence or intimidate that judge. >> sean: that's a good point. they are not enforcing it. we see that every day at the southern border as well. >> absolutely. >> sean: great reporting. we have a lot more news to cover. vice-president harris is under fire again tonight after omitting right to life after citing a quote from our declaration. abortion is legal in america. it goes b

supposed to be protesting, interfering at what -- when a decision is spending in front of the supreme court justice's h home, direct violation of the statute. again nothing happened. that situation as we all know got real serious. got real serious. with the assassination attempt on justice kavanaugh. this resolution is straightforward. this resolution is straightforward. what has happened literally now at hundreds of crisis pregnancy centers and churches around the country, this past year, is just flat out wrong. this is a resolution that says, we aproashite the good work--appreciate the good work that happens at crisis pregnancy centers, where they take in women and help them and that unborn child, make sure that unborn child gets to experience the gift of life, the sanctity of life is what this is about. i want to commend my colleague and friend, mr. johnson from the great state of louisiana, for this resolution and the people across the country who volunteer and work -- who work every day at these septemberers to help these ladies who are in a tough situation. with that, i reserve the balance of m

of the supreme court. i'm sure she's a wonderful person. but she has no law enforcement training or experience. she's in charge of securing the building called the supreme court building and the justicesat's what she does. that's who they gave this to in this most egregious breach of security in the history of the supreme court, as the court's statement says. something else that didn't happen here, if you want to do a serious investigation, you're going to talk literally to every person who may have had access to whatever it is that leaked. from what we can see so far, while they may have talked to 200 people, they didn't talk to "x" clerks, they didn't talk to the very universe of people who may have done the leaking and left the court to go onto some great legal job. they didn't talk to those people. they didn't call the fbi because you know what would happen, a real case would have happened. they would have actually had the criminal process. someone stole government property. someone mishandled government records, potentially a crime. they could have had subpoenas of former clerks and former employees, they would have had that leverage over them. they could have subpoenaed phone ca