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The Supreme Court's reputation has been badly bruised after the historic leak of a draft opinion suggesting the majority of justices would overturn abortion rights last week, according to former law clerks from both wings of the bench.
A crucial part of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s draft majority opinion dismantling the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe decision came at the back end, with a 31-page appendix detailing myriad state abortion bans in effect at the time the court ruled, including some that had been on the books since the early 19th Century.
A crucial part of Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s draft majority opinion dismantling the Supreme Court's 1973 Roe v. Wade decision came at the back end, with a 31-page appendix detailing myriad state abortion bans in effect at the time the court ruled, including some on the books since the early 19th century.
The unprecedented leak Monday night over a draft Supreme Court opinion seemingly signaling the end of Roe v. Wade immediately prompted calls for a criminal investigation into the matter.
A law professor at Vermont Law School, Jared Carter, told the Washington Examiner Tuesday the consequences are "terrible for the institution of the court to have draft decisions being leaked."