Chief Justice Roberts was in the process of privately trying to dissuade conservative justices from voting to upend abortion rights when the opinion by Alito was leaked.
confirmed his long-held suspicions.
“Have been confident from the beginning that the leak came from the office of a right wing justice, and this all but confirms it,”wrote user @Angry_Staffer , a popular anti-Donald Trump Twitter account. “My guess is that Roberts was having some luck with Kavanaugh, but after the leak, a changed vote would have looked like the result of intimidation.”
Some also speculated that specific justices — and perhaps their activist spouses — may have played a role in the leak. “This is why many people believe the leak came from Ginni or Clarence Thomas because it ended John Roberts’s ability to change anyone’s vote,”A day after the leaked draft was made public,into what he described as an “egregious breach” of the institution. Since that time, however, no new developments in the investigation have been made public — and it’s unclear if the investigation is still open, or whether any outside agencies are looking into the matter.
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