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Federal prosecutors have issued grand jury subpoenas as part of the probe.","category":"Politics","area":"United States","publishedAt":"2026-11-05T21:45:53.793Z","sourceReportedAt":"2026-11-05T21:09:47.909Z","updatedAt":"2026-11-05T21:45:53.793Z","readTime":"3 min read","scores":{"trust":60,"critic":60,"hype":45,"notes":{"trust":"Central claim attributed to named body, with multiple independent outlets reporting the same fact.","critic":"Most outlets are digests; one full report provided a basis for claims.","hype":"Headlines and digests use strong language like 'reviving scrutiny' and 'escalates fears'."}},"tags":["#SupremeCourt","#DOJ","#RoeVWade","#AbortionRights","#CriminalInvestigation"],"entities":["Department of Justice","Supreme Court","Roe v. Wade","Politico","Jeanine Pirro","Donald Trump"],"body":[{"type":"key_takeaways","items":["The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court draft opinion that overturned Roe v. 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Anadolu Ajansı, Patriot Daily Press, nytimespost.com, and Fox News state that U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's Washington office is overseeing the probe. However, Raw Story reports that Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, is overseeing the inquiry, while TV News Check states that investigators are accelerating an inquiry that takes the Trump administration into the inner workings of the court."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the left-rated digests mention the theory, voiced by President Donald Trump and some conservatives, that an abortion-rights supporter may have been the source of the leak. 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