DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Republicans will reintroduce a bill Thursday to impose criminal penalties on individuals who leak confidential information pertaining to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, and Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi are the primary sponsors of the Stop Supreme Court Leakers Act.
The legislation would require individuals convicted of leaking information from the Supreme Court to pay a $10,000 fine and serve a maximum of 10 years in prison, according to the text of the bill, as obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The bill also calls for seizing any profits that leakers may earn from disclosing sensitive information.
The Supreme Court has been rocked by several instances of high-profile leaks disclosing the justices’ internal deliberations to the…
