U.S. Supreme Court,
Appellate Practice
Feb. 25, 2019
Selling secrets: The disturbing tale of Supreme Court clerk Ashton Embry
What Justice Joseph McKenna didn’t know when he accepted Embry’s resignation was the lede in the morning’s New York papers: Someone had leaked the results of a pending Supreme Court decision.
Ben Feuer
Chairman
Complex Appellate Litigation Group LLP
Appellate Law
Email: ben.feuer@calg.com
Northwestern Univ School of Law
APPELLATE ZEALOTS
Secrecy in the judicial decision-making process is essential to court functioning. It preserves the courts' ability to debate, experiment and collaborate among jurists and their staff, while ensuring litigants and the public learn of rulings simultaneously.
Given the sheer number of security scandals that have engulfed America's political and business classes in th...
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