Chaos in John Roberts’s Court

The leak of U.S. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito’s first draft of an opinion overturning the 50-year-old precedent of Roe v. Wade, along with the constitutional right to abortion that it recognized, is yet another distressing sign of an institution in increasing disarray. Whether the leak came from someone associated with the Court’s newly emboldened extreme-right majority, which has engaged in other acts reflecting diminished respect for the Court’s norms and traditions, or as a tit for tat from someone on the left, hoping to preview or mobilize the outrage that will greet Alito’s opinion, if issued, it was a… Read Full Article