The next time you hear the far left preaching about how they are fighting to preserve our Republic’s institutions & norms remember how they leaked a Supreme Court opinion in an attempt to intimidate the justices on abortion https://t.co/9W6jKCZQQt
— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) May 3, 2022
It’s shocking. Not that the Supreme Court would overturn Roe, but that someone would presumably leak a draft opinion (we don’t know if it is the current one) to change the ruling. Chief Justice John Roberts reverences the integrity of the Court. That a decision was leaked is abhorrent — and one so critical to who we are as a nation! Someone was trying to undermine constitutional law by leaking it.
The Court has been wrong for nearly 50 years about abortion. Some cheap stunt should not change matters.
As a friend texted me tonight:
Pray that the Chief is maddened by the leak, investigates, but also stays true to this opinion.
There’s such a lack of confidence in institutions, and this leak will only serve to make matters worse. This is a bullying move. The Court should not succumb to bullies. It should investigate and make clear what a violation of confidence this was. This was an attempt to manipulate the Court and should be universally condemned.
I pray the result is to simply soften the blow in public opinion. The New York Times editorialized the weekend before Dobbs was argued spinning an overthrow of Roe as a win for the pro-abortion side — saying it would be an opportunity to make clear that the people want unlimited abortion. Polls consistently tell us they don’t. States such as New York will continue the evil and then some, but human rights will prevail elsewhere.
This is an awful time to be a Supreme Court justice. Pray for them all.
Also: Thank God for Justice Alito!