US Supreme Court investigation fails to identify source of abortion leak

Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation the next day into what he termed an “egregious breach of trust”.

The Supreme Court building on Capitol Hill in Washington (Patrick Semansky/AP/PA)

The US Supreme Court has said it has not determined who leaked a draft of the court’s opinion overturning abortion rights, but that the investigation continues.

Eight months after Politico published its explosive leak detailing the draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, the court said its investigative team “has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence”.