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Leak and Lose Act of 2023

H.R. 441 · 118th Congress · Jan 20, 2023 · Lineage

A BILL

To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the concealment, removal, or mutilation of a Supreme Court opinion or draft opinion, and for other purposes.

Section 1 Short title

This Act may be cited as the “Leak and Lose Act of 2023”.

Sec. 2 Concealment, removal, or mutilation of Supreme Court opinion or draft opinion

Section 2071 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(c) Whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals, removes, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys, or attempts to do so, or, with intent to do so takes and carries away (including electronically) from a building in which the Supreme Court conducts business, any opinion or draft opinion of a case being heard by the Supreme Court, prior to the date on which such opinion is published by the Supreme Court, shall be fined $5000, and if applicable, shall forfeit their admission to all Federal courts and shall be ineligible for admission to a Federal court for the remainder of their life.”