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All. and the supreme court, somewhat to the difference of others, has that kind of problem in spades. life is complex. life changes and we want to maintain in so far as we can, everybody does, certain key moral, political value, democracy, human rights, equality, rule of law et cetera. >> in may 2nd months before the dobbs opinion, a draft opinion, very close to what the court decided, leaked to the press. how damaging was that both to the court and what impact did it have on the justices inside the court? >> i don't know the individual impact. that was individual decision making. but i think ...

And he was i'm sure open to what the chief said, even after he voted the way he did in private to reverse roe. but you know what's, in the very end, he almost always goes with the hard-line antiabortion move as he did here. but again, the key i think was once everything became public on may 2nd, when political published that leaked first draft -- >> with his name is on the people signing on to the majority. >> exactly, it wasn't explicit, but everyone knew that sam alito thought that he had a majority. then the world knows that brett kavanaugh has voted a particular way, and that justice can b...

Anti-abortion move. once everything became public on may 2nd when political published that leaked first draft -- >> with his name signing on to the majority. >> it wasn't explicit but everyone knew sam alito thought he had a majority. then the world knows that brett kavanaugh has voted a particular way and it's very hard to go back on that. the hard right conservatives were very anxious about what the chief was doing and they wanted to get the opinion out sooner because they did not want anything to thwart their majority. >> not the plot thickens as to why there was a leaked opinion in the fir...

A ban from mississippi on abortions after 15 weeks, and then the three liberals who didn't want any disruption with abortion rights and wanted to strike down the mississippi law. the chief worked for weeks and weeks, months to try to pick off one of those five justices on the far right, to stop the overturning of roe. the justices, bianna, hadn't even taken the case originally to decide the momentous question of the future of roe. they had taken it only to decide the mississippi law. and the chief thought what the conservatives were doing was a violation of judicial restraint and precedent dat...

Hour. he famously in the obamacare case in 2012 did that. he's known for being quite canny and able to work these compromises at the very end. so he's doing this trying to make some progress and then suddenly on may 2nd this draft opinion becomes public. and what it does, it makes a very difficult task even harder because it locks in these votes. >> you have this fascinating nugget we found out on may 2 when politico published the draft but they knew for days because reporters were trying to verify it was a legit draft. the justices know this is about to go public. >> they know and, in fact, j...