Commentary
The most charitable interpretation of the gambit by a still unnamed individual to leak Justice Samuel Alito’s draft Dobbs opinion is that the leaker felt it to be his or her righteous duty to destroy justice in a desperate bid to “save” it.
Regardless of whether done under a perverse sense of good faith, or bad, the despicable deed transcends the damage in wrecked “norms,” and with it the erosion of trust within and integrity outside the highest court in the land. In effect, it served as a naked act of intimidation, predictably fueling a mob aimed at making judges rule based on the threat of force over reason.
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