If the insider's claims are accurate, it suggests there was another leak about an Alito opinion. (via MaddowBlog)
As the Supreme Court investigates the extraordinary leak this spring of a draft opinion of the decision overturning Roe v. Wade, a former anti-abortion leader has come forward claiming that another breach occurred in a 2014 landmark case involving contraception and religious rights. In a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and in interviews with The New York Times, the Rev. Rob Schenck said he was told the outcome of the 2014 case weeks before it was announced.
The fact that Alito’s draft ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization was leaked to Politico was a major development, but the allegations from Schenck are a qualitatively different kind of story: If his claims are accurate, it suggests there was another leak about another Alito ruling, not to journalists, but to select conservatives.NBC News that any suggestion that he or his wife leaked the outcome of the ruling is “completely false.
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