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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gustaf Kilander

Supreme Court justices reportedly used personal email accounts and left ‘burn bags’ of documents in hallways

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Supreme Court justices have used personal email accounts in their work and burn bags were left open in hallways, a CNN report has alleged.

The report claims that justices frequently used personal email accounts to send sensitive messages – avoiding using the secure servers put in place to protect the information. This, and several other security setbacks, were not included in the report that the court released last month following last spring’s leak of the draft opinion ending Roe v Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.

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