The New York Times ran an excellent piece, Behind the Scenes at the Dismantling of Roe v. Wade, on the Supreme Court's machinations to fundamentally alter the lives of women in the United States by its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health. Surely everyone remembers that Justice Alito's draft opinion was leaked some several weeks before it was officially issued. A reasonable inference to be drawn from the article is that Justice Samuel Alito leaked it himself and did so to deter Justice Brett Kavanaugh from joining a possible opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Stephen Breyer that would have trimmed Roe v. Wade significantly but not overruled it and lead to travesties such as we saw last week in Texas, A Texas Case That Shows Abortion Exceptions Are A Sham and What Happened to Kate Cox Is Tragic and Completely Expected.
Some side notes on Samuel Alito and his ethics: Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire That Later Had Cases Before the Court and Samuel Alito Joins Supreme Court's Billionaires' Club.
A Federal Judge Asks: Does the Supreme Court Realize How Bad It Smells?
In the Age of Trump, the question answers itself: No and it doesn't care.
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