 Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote for the court that the states and other parties did not have the legal right or standing to sue. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has returned to his homeland Australia aboard a charter jet hours after pleading guilty to obtaining and publishing U.S. military secrets. The deal with the Justice Department concludes a drawn-out legal saga. It came to a surprise end in an unusual setting, with Assange entering his plea in a U.S. district court in the northern Mariana Islands yesterday.