{"id":1461279,"date":"2022-05-03T07:46:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T11:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461279"},"modified":"2022-05-03T07:46:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T11:46:38","slug":"the-only-reason-to-leak-that-scotus-opinion-is-to-bully-justices-into-submission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-only-reason-to-leak-that-scotus-opinion-is-to-bully-justices-into-submission\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Reason To Leak That SCOTUS Opinion Is To Bully Justices Into Submission"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-only-reason-to-leak-that-scotus-opinion-is-to-bully-justices-into-submission%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461279&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Supreme Court will overturn the landmark decision of Roe v. Wade in June, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/05\/02\/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473\">reported<\/a> Monday night, with an apparent draft of the majority opinion leaked to the beltway magazine. Never before has a full draft opinion been pre-emptively leaked to the press in the modern history of the court, and it was leaked this week for one reason: to incite violence and bully justices into changing their votes. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching repudiation of the 1973 decision which guaranteed federal constitutional protections of abortion rights and a subsequent 1992 decision \u2013 <em>Planned Parenhood v. Casey <\/em>\u2013 that largely maintained the right,\u201d Politico reported, with conservative Justice Samuel Alito writing the majority opinion drafted in February.<\/p>\n<p>Draft opinions are not final. Justices can and often do change their minds throughout the writing process. The published opinion in Politico will only add fuel to the fire on one of the most politically sensitive topics in the country. Its premature release designed to place undemocratic pressure on justices to bend their opinion in conformity with loud extremist voices <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/?p=271727&#038;preview=true\">already waging<\/a> insurrectionist threats on the court. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.41.41-PM-1-1024x667-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271774\" width=\"650\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.41.41-PM-1-1024x667-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.41.41-PM-1-300x196.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.41.41-PM-1-768x501-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.41.41-PM-1.png 1212w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.30.35-PM-1-1024x950-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271775\" width=\"-84\" height=\"-78\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.30.35-PM-1-1024x950-1.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.30.35-PM-1-300x278-1.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.30.35-PM-1-768x713-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screen-Shot-2022-05-02-at-9.30.35-PM-1.png 1192w\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>According to Politico, the court\u2019s conservative bloc \u2014 Justices Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett \u2014 have joined Alito in striking down the nearly five-decade unconstitutional court precedent. The panel\u2019s three leftist justices \u2014 Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan \u2014 plan to issue a dissent. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow Chief Justice John Roberts will ultimately vote, and whether he will join an already written opinion or draft his own, is unclear,\u201d the magazine reported. <\/p>\n<p>The notion of an undecided Roberts willing to dissent leaves no room for the court\u2019s conservatives to change their votes if Roe is to be overturned this summer. Even if Politico\u2019s reporting is air-tight and the justices stick to their opinions, the premature leak of the written ruling will undermine the credibility of the court with the appearance of the decision now made political.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear who leaked the draft opinion due in two months. The case, <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization<\/em>, contests a Mississippi abortion ban after 15 weeks of pregnancy seen as a direct challenge to the 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade. <\/p>\n<p>The end of Roe has been a nightmare for Democrats who\u2019ve harnessed the court for decades to operate as a super-legislature. Democrats have fought to protect the decision\u2019s standing in every nomination battle, with an increasing virulence waging serial character assassinations on every Republican nominee to the high court as its balance shifted in conservatives\u2019 favor with GOP appointments. <\/p>\n<p>After the successful confirmation of Barrett, who replaced leftist Ruth Bader Ginsburg, tilting the court to a 6-3 conservative majority, Republicans began to prepare for Roe\u2019s end with abortion restrictions that the bench has declined to strike down.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/01\/20\/1074534980\/supreme-court-for-third-time-allows-texas-to-bar-abortions-after-six-weeks\">three times<\/a> rejected opportunities to block a Texas law banning abortion after six weeks of pregnancy. In March, Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/04\/13\/oklahoma-prepares-for-the-end-of-roe-with-new-abortion-ban\/\">signed<\/a> a near-total ban on the procedure.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<p>\n  Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court will overturn the landmark decision of Roe v. 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