Tim Pierce

On the press, Trump said, quote, the anti-America fake news media is rooting for Iran to win, which echoes complaints that he has had about war coverage that he says paints Iran in a much stronger position than it is in really with its military destroyed.

Good to be on.

Well, we have a lot of speculation and conjecture.

A lot of that is focused on the court's newest justice, Katonji Brown-Jackson, and there's reason for that.

She made a speech at Yale just a few days ago against the court's shadow docket.

Some people have looked at those comments and seen evidence of clear bias and an interest in having a story like the one just leaked to the public.

There's also some conjecture that involves the evidence of the story itself.

All the memos cited in the Times piece are from official letterhead from each Supreme Court justice except for one, a memo from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, which was written on plain paper.

Jonathan Adler, a professor at William and Mary Law School, says this suggests that whoever leaked to the Times had access to Sotomayor's draft memos, not just her official internal communications.

Well, the pressure is really on Chief Justice John Roberts at this point.

Legal experts say that unless he wants his court remembered as the one in which confidentiality and integrity finally broke down, he has to get a handle on these leaks.

It may already be too late in some respects.

It's not hard to see justices being a bit more reticent to be as open and frankly disagreeable directly with one another.

So the walls may already be going up internally and hurting discussion between them.

But as legal expert Jonathan Turley pointed out, Roberts needs to act decisively here to catch the leaker and deter future leaks before even worse damage is done.

Right.

The shadow or emergency dock, it essentially refers to initial Supreme Court rulings that are published without oral arguments or the usual pages of explanations.

These rulings aren't considered final, but prioritize speed to stop what could be irreversible harm to one of the plaintiffs.

The gist of the time story is that in 2016, the Supreme Court took an unprecedented step and stayed the Obama EPA's Clean Power Plan in a case that was still in the lower courts.

Justices Roberts and Alito at the time led the push for the stay in the leaked memos.