(4 May 2022)

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Washington DC - 4 May 2022
1. Wide of protestors in front of the US Supreme Court building
2. Pan of abortion-rights demonstrators holding signs
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Heidi Steinberg, abortion-rights activist:
"I'm thankful it was leaked. I think that in the end, it could help our case. It could help prevent something disastrous for our country. So my concern really isn't hunting down who leaked it. My concern is making sure that this does not go through."
4. Close of abortion-rights demonstrators holding signs
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Lee Dickson, anti-abortion activist:
"It wasn't the leaker's place to release that document. That is the responsibility of the justices, which have been voted on, confirmed, placed in those positions. And so it was a great upset in authority and I believe that there does need to be strict repercussions on the leaker."
6. Various of anti-abortion demonstrators holding signs
7. Wide of US Supreme Court behind barricades
8. Close of sign reading (English) "Area Closed"
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Balsamo, Associated Press:
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"Yes. So there's a lot that we don't know about exactly what happened here or how this draft document made its way to Politico and out to the general public. But we do know that this is something that's being taken extremely seriously by the court. The chief justice of the Supreme Court has ordered an investigation, ordered the Marshal of the Supreme Court to conduct that investigation, to try to figure out exactly how this happened. It's important to remember that this is nearly unprecedented. It's, the Supreme Court as an institution, relies on this level of secrecy, on the level of trust within the court, both with justices, clerks and judicial staff, to ensure that something like this doesn't happen."
10. Mid stonework on the US Supreme Court building
11. Close of windows on US Supreme Court building
12. Close of the female marble statue at the court, the Contemplation of Justice
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Balsamo, Associated Press:
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"So there's a dispute over whether or not there actually is a federal crime that was committed. The kind of key section of law here that that is debated is a section of law that deals with the theft of government property. And generally, under Justice Department guidelines, the theft of government property by someone who generally has access to it and is disseminating it for information to the public, is not a prosecutable crime under DOJ guidelines."
14. Mid of police  guarding the Supreme Court
15. Close of the male marble statue at the court, the Guardian
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Mike Balsamo, Associated Press:
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"The Justice Department has taken really big strides to ensure that seizure of journalists records are being curtailed in the last few years, particularly after an uptick in the Trump administration. Attorney General Merrick Garland had ordered federal prosecutors not to use compulsory process so subpoenas or warrants to obtain information specifically from journalists and leak investigations. And generally those happen in leaks of classified information, which obviously is not the case here. But it's important to note that the Marshal of the court reports directly to the court and not the executive branch. So those traditional guardrails that we're talking about that are in place in the executive branch with the Justice Department and the attorney general likely don't apply here."
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