'My biggest hope is it wasn't a willful breach' says former U.S. Supreme Court clerk about leaked draft majority opinion

Ashley Johnson says it was a privilege to serve as a law clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas in 2005-2006 at the U.S. Supreme Court. This week's developments have left her in shock.

Johnson, who is now an attorney at Gibson Dunn in Dallas, says she was in disbelief when she heard this week that a draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito on Roe v. Wade was leaked and published in Politico.

That document turned out to be authentic and Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation into the leak. Johnson was one of three dozen clerks who helped the justices do research and give input on the draft opinions. "They had both an internal and an external computer system, and if you were on the internal one where internal things were circulated, it wasn't possible to send things out." "My biggest hope would be that it turns out that there was not a willful breach of confidentiality by somebody employed by the court.

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