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FILE – Light illuminates a part of the Supreme Court constructing at nightfall on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 16, 2022. The Supreme Court stated Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, that it has not decided who leaked a draft of the court docket’s opinion overturning abortion rights, however that the investigation continues. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

The Supreme Court stated Thursday it has not decided who leaked a draft of the court docket’s opinion overturning abortion rights, however that the investigation continues.

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

Never earlier than had a whole opinion made its solution to the general public earlier than the court docket was able to announce it.

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

Investigators “conducted 126 formal interviews of 97 employees, all of whom denied disclosing the opinion,” the court docket stated.

The investigation concluded that it “is unlikely that the Court’s information technology (IT) systems were improperly accessed by a person outside the Court,” following an examination of the court docket’s computer systems, networks, printers, and out there name and textual content logs.

The “risk of both deliberate and accidental disclosures of Court-sensitive information” grew with the coronavirus pandemic and shift to working from residence, the report stated. More individuals working from residence, ”in addition to gaps within the Court’s safety insurance policies, created an setting the place it was too simple to take away delicate info from the constructing and the Court’s IT networks,” the report stated.

Investigators are persevering with to “review and process some electronic data that has been collected and a few other inquiries remain pending,” the report stated.