[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7713 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7713

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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2022

 Mr. Timmons introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                       Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 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.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Leak and Lose Act of 2022''.

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 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.''.
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