Legal experts warn that latest Supreme Court leaks are 'enormously destructive'

Following revelations of private memoranda and conversations between Supreme Court justices published in the New York Times, legal experts are warning that such sensitive leaks are "destructive" to the high court.

The New York Times reported that internal memos and deliberations that they claimed showed Chief Justice Thomas as having "molded" the outcomes of three major cases the court considered dealing with Jan. 6 rioters, and granting former President Donald Trump certain immunity for presidential acts.

Roberts wrote the majority in the decisions, and the report claims that he "provided crucial support for hearing the historic [immunity],' and made last minute and unexplained changes to authorship of the politically charged opinions.

The leak follows the unprecedented leaked draft of the Dobbs opinion which overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, and a concerted effort by Democratic lawmakers and the Biden administration to make sweeping changes to the court and ethics enforcement.

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Republican lawmakers, such as Senators Lindsey Graham, R-S.C. and John Kennedy, R-La., claim those efforts are politically motivated to delegitimize one the court now sits with a majority of Republican-appointed justices.

Some legal experts say this latest leak is part of that effort to undermine the Supreme Court.

"I think it's enormously destructive to the court when people inside the court disclose to the press confidential memoranda, confidential emails and what appears to even be remarks made at the justices' conference," James Burnham of King Street Legal and former senior Justice Department official told Fox News Digital.

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