… Or maybe it was Chief Justice Roberts himself who leaked the opinion in the hope of arousing such a storm of protest that the conservative justices would be frightened into preserving Roe v. Wade:
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I wouldn’t be surprised. He’s not a reliable conservative.
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Yes, I heard about this. Damnation! Roberts’ influence over Kavanaugh was apparently a conservative concern when he was Trump’s choice.
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So no, it wasn’t Roberts. Back to my first guess.
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One of the three dissenting Justices leaked the opinion in the hope that the ensuing protests would pressure at least one in the majority to change his or her mind.
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I hadn’t thought about that last thing - that whoever recieved the leak now has “kompromat” on whoever did the leaking.
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