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'Kid glove' treatment of Supreme Court won't find abortion leaker or stop ethics abuses

Presidents and Supreme Court justices essentially police themselves. That's a recipe for disappointment and abuses.

Will we ever solve the Mystery of the Supreme Court Leaker? Where are Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys when we need them? Where are Miss Marple, Hercule Poirot and Harry Bosch?

There was an investigation into who leaked a draft of the court’s bombshell decision ending Roe v. Wade and the national right to abortion. But it could not identify the culprit "by a preponderance of the evidence," the court said last week, and that seems to be that.