Abortion is a nuclear bomb of an issue, planted at the core of American liberalism. And it just went off. That’s why police in Washington, DC have put up barriers around the Supreme Court, following the extraordinary leak of a draft opinion that could overturn Roe v. Wade. Everybody now expects protests outside the court and all over the world.
The leak itself is an extraordinary story. A draft opinion from a Supreme Court Justice has never leaked before. The fact that it has suggests a serious controversy within the institution. Politico broke the story, and says it obtained the document from a person familiar with the court’s deliberations. Whoever gave Politico the story clearly wanted to cause a lot of trouble.
The majority draft opinion, written by Justice Samuel Alito, is a clear rejection of the court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling as well as a subsequent 1992 Planned Parenthood v.
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