Not something you see everyday - a supposed leak of a draft opinion from the Supreme Court on a hot-button issue. You don't see it everyday, as it has never happened before, ever.
Longstanding traditions, traditions maintained for a very good reason, are being destroyed in the name of political expediency.
Secrecy during deliberations is one of the hallmarks of the Court, as opinions can and do shift over time before being issued. That someone for clearly political reasons decided to leak an opinion to Politico is a rather bad sign of the weakening of the bonds of the institution for political expedience.
This is the first time there has been such a leak. Likely the leak, if it is of the real draft, is designed to put pressure on the Court prior to the official ruling being released. It will be very interesting to see if it is actually valid leak or yet another political fake to rally the Democrat base similar to the Steele dossier.
Of course, protestors were conveniently ready-to-go once this leak was announced: NY Post: Protests erupt outside of Supreme Court after Roe v. Wade opinion leak.
It's going to be interesting to see if the leak is indeed genuine or not, the identity of the leaker, assuming such is ever revealed, and it will be interesting to compare this draft to whatever the final opinion will look like.
2 comments:
Hey Aaron;
Betcha if it was a leak, I hate to suggest it was a staffer of the more liberal Judges because "Roe Vs Wade" is the center of their entire identity as a modern liberal. It should have been a states issue to begin with.
MrGarabaldi: Yes, I'd expect that the leak came off the left side of the Court. Roe v Wade was a terrible decision legally, regardless of how some may like the result it gave.
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