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In 1973 the outcome in the Roe case leaked several hours ahead of its announcement. The investigation doesn’t appear to have any real precedent. But it isn’t clear if she or others have the power to issue subpoenas to get material from journalists or the fewer than 100 people in the court - including justices - with access to a draft opinion. She could theoretically hire an outside law firm to assist, and in other judicial records cases the FBI has been called in. Experts say leaking the draft opinion likely wasn’t a crime, and Curley’s investigative tools are limited. She is also in some ways constrained in her investigation by her position, which was created just after the Civil War, in 1867. She is the court’s 11th Marshal and the second woman to hold the post.

Through a court spokeswoman, Curley declined an interview request. Huston said he was incredibly impressed by Curley and that she had a tremendous reputation as a leader, but even as her boss of two years he didn’t know if she had a spouse or children. Patrick Huston, her direct supervisor at the Pentagon in her last military job before the Supreme Court. “I’m confident that if the truth can be found out here, she’ll find it out and present it in an unbiased manner,” said retired Army Brig. People who know Curley, 53, described the former Army colonel and military lawyer as possessing the right temperament for a highly charged leak investigation: smart, private, apolitical and unlikely to be intimidated. That has sparked protests and round-the-clock security at justices’ homes,demonstrations at the court and concerns about violence following the court’s ultimate decision. Wade, the 1973 decision that women have a constitutional right to abortion. Leaks to Politico suggest that the court seems ready to overturn Roe v. Her brief script includes “Oyez! Oyez! Oyez!” - meaning “hear ye” - and concludes, “God save the United States and this Honorable Court.”Įarlier this month, however, Curley was handed a bombshell of an assignment, overseeing an unprecedented breach of Supreme Court secrecy, the leak of a draft opinion and apparent votes in a major abortion case. Her most public role was supposed to be in the courtroom, where the Marshal bangs a gavel and announces the entrance of the court’s nine justices. Supreme Court less than a year ago, she would have expected to work mostly behind the scenes: overseeing the court’s police force and the operations of the marble-columned building where the justices work.

WASHINGTON (AP) - When Gail Curley began her job as Marshal of the U.S.