{"id":2592297,"date":"2026-04-18T11:27:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/explosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T11:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:31:31","slug":"explosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/explosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Liberal Justices Slow-Walked Dobbs Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/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%2Fexplosive-report-as-dobbs-majority-faced-death-threats-liberal-justices-slow-walked-release%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=2592297&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>&#8211; The piece describes the intense security risks and political tensions after the Dobbs draft,wich would overturn Roe v. Wade, was leaked to the press. Conservative justices faced real threats, while their <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >pro-abortion colleagues reportedly delayed releasing<\/a> the official ruling, increasing risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Mollie Hemingway\u2019s reporting, as summarized in the piece, highlights Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s role in Dobbs and the claim that abortion supporters had incentives to target justices to change the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The dissenters-Justices Breyer, Kagan, and Sotomayor-were portrayed as reluctant to accelerate the process, with interactions among the justices showing significant strain. The narrative notes internal friction, including a tense moment described as Kagan \u201cremonstrating\u201d with Breyer and the wall \u201cshaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The leak on may 2, 2022 of a 98-page Dobbs draft triggered left-wing protests and widespread violence, including vandalism of pregnancy centers and churches, and even the firebombing of the Wisconsin Family Action headquarters. Protests also gathered outside conservative justices\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The threats escalated to an attempted murder: Nicholas Roske was arrested near Justice Kavanaugh\u2019s home with weapons, saying he intended to prevent Roe from being overturned by removing judges.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The article states that the liberal minority on the court did little to de-escalate tensions, while the Biden governance publicly described protests as peaceful; Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered full-time security for all justices but faced criticism for not arresting protesters near judges\u2019 homes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Justice alito\u2019s stance, cited in Hemingway\u2019s account, was that the court should \u201cdo our jobs\u201d by interpreting the law and applying stare decisis, regardless of anticipated societal reactions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The piece also mentions rumors about liberal dissenting justices slow-walking a dissent in a future redistricting case, as reported by Sean Spicer, illustrating ongoing partisan dynamics surrounding Supreme Court decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; At the end,the article identifies Matt Kittle,a senior elections correspondent for The federalist,as the writer providing the summarized reporting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000180-874f-dd36-a38c-c74f98520000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">draft<\/a> of the Supreme Court ruling that would overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> leaked to the press, the conservative justices who signed on to the majority opinion suddenly wore bigger targets on their backs. The very real threat of assassination hung over them like a coming thunderstorm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And still their pro-abortion colleagues stalled the release of the official ruling for weeks, putting the justices&rsquo; lives at increased risk, as detailed in Mollie Hemingway&rsquo;s new book on Justice Samuel Alito and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/kagan-screamed-so-loudly-liberal-ally-after-dobbs-leak-wall-shaking-book-claims.amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> Saturday by Fox News. <\/p>\n<p>Alito is the justice who wrote <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&rsquo;s Health Organization<\/em>, the ruling ending nationalized abortion.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Alito asked the dissenters to make the completion of their dissents their priority because delay of the decision was a security threat,&rdquo; Hemingway, The Federalist&rsquo;s editor-in-chief writes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Alito-Justice-Reshaped-Restored-Constitution\/dp\/1541607139\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution.<\/em><\/a><em>&ldquo;<\/em>Abortion supporters had an incentive to kill one or more of the justices in the majority to change the outcome.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The dissenters &mdash; Justices Stephen Breyer (counting down the days until his retirement at the end of the 2021-22 term ), Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor &mdash; &ldquo;demurred,&rdquo; Hemingway reports. Justice Neil Gorsuch asked the liberals when they expected to be wrapped up. They refused to provide a date.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The tension and the threats escalated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;Serious Security Risk&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>On May 2, 2022, accomplice media outlet Politico published the 98-page draft of <em>Dobbs<\/em>. The unprecedented leak set off a wave of leftist protests and a literal firestorm of pro-abortion-led violence. Six days later &mdash; on Mother&rsquo;s Day &mdash; a radical who was eventually arrested thanks to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dna-burrito-used-to-charge-hridindu-sankar-roychowdhury-firebombing-anti-abortion-office-wisconsin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">half-eaten burrito <\/a>firebombed the Madison headquarters of <a href=\"https:\/\/wifamilyaction.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wisconsin Family Action<\/a>, a Christian pro-life, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nebraska-citys-fairness-ordinance-triggers-firestorm\/\" title=\"Nebraska City\u2019s \u2018Fairness Ordinance\u2019 Triggers Firestorm\">pro-family organization<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In the ensuing weeks, hundreds of pregnancy centers, churches, and pro-life organizations would be vandalized, some even set ablaze,&rdquo; Hemingway wrote. Protesters also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2022\/07\/02\/supreme-court-protests-home-abortion\/7796087001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lined<\/a> the streets and sidewalks outside the conservative justices&rsquo; homes. <\/p>\n<p>More than a month after the leak, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/nicholas-roske-sentenced-over-eight-years-prison-attempted-murder-supreme-court-justice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nicholas Roske<\/a>, 26 at the time, arrived at Justice Brett Kavanaugh&rsquo;s home with murder on his mind. In his possession were a Glock pistol, ammunition, zip ties, a tactical knife, pepper spray, a hammer, duct tape, and more accoutrements, according to the criminal complaint. Roske <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/07\/congress-should-impeach-the-judge-who-gave-would-be-mass-scotus-assassin-just-eight-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> he was going to stop <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> from being overturned by getting rid of a judge &mdash; or three &mdash; that voted to stop the deeply flawed 1973 ruling legalizing abortion nationwide.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everyone knew that the leak posed a serious security risk for justices. Since decisions do not take effect until issued officially from the bench, the death of a justice before then could alter the result. The threat of assassination increased dramatically,&rdquo; Hemingway writes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It took 53 days to finally release the <em>Dobbs<\/em> decision. Despite the growing threat to their colleagues, the liberals on the court refused to listen to urgent pleas to complete their work, Hemingway reports. <\/p>\n<h2>The &lsquo;Wall Was Shaking&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Kagan, an Obama nominee, made her opinion on the delay loudly clear, according to Hemingway&rsquo;s book, as reported by Fox. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Hemingway wrote that Kagan, an Obama appointee, angrily confronted Breyer, a Clinton appointee, in May 2022 behind closed doors after at least one justice, Samuel Alito, had asked his liberal colleagues to speed up writing their dissent because of security threats,&rdquo; Fox reported. &ldquo;Breyer was most likely to agree to Alito&rsquo;s request, Hemingway wrote.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Hemingway wrote that &ldquo;Kagan remonstrated with Breyer not to accommodate the majority, screaming so loudly, observers noted, that the &lsquo;wall was shaking,&rsquo;&rdquo; according to Fox.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-revises-ralph-northams-history-the-rebirth-of-a-wounded-healer\/\" title=\"Washington Post Revises Ralph Northam&#039;s History: The &#039;Rebirth&#039; of a &#039;Wounded Healer&#039;\">pro-abortion zealots<\/a> were calling for heads to roll, the court&rsquo;s liberal minority did nothing to, as the left likes to say with empty virtue, &ldquo;turn down the temperature.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The justices needed all the help they could get. But the Biden administration shrugged off the serious threats. Biden press secretary, Jennifer Psaki, insisted the demonstrations were peaceful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I know that there&rsquo;s an outrage right now, I guess, about protests that have been peaceful to date, and we certainly do continue to encourage that, outside judges&rsquo; homes, and that&rsquo;s the president&rsquo;s position,&rdquo; Psaki <a href=\"http:\/\/he%20had%20not%20said%20he%20would%20accommodate%20the%20justices%20whose%20lives%20were%20at%20risk%20by%20getting%20out%20a%20dissent,\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> on May 10.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Shortly after the leak, Attorney General Merrick Garland ordered the U.S. Marshals Service to provide full-time security for all the justices, but he drew criticism because authorities did not arrest protesters despite a law that prohibits &lsquo;picketing or parading&rsquo; near a federal judge&rsquo;s home to influence a court decision,&rdquo; Fox reported.<\/p>\n<p>Garland refused to enforce the laws against pro-abortion radicals who threatened Supreme Court members even as he was <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/15\/nsbas-apology-for-letter-comparing-parents-to-terrorists-hasnt-stopped-the-fbi-from-targeting-free-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">siccing<\/a> the FBI on parents who spoke out against liberal school district policies.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>&lsquo;We Can Only Do Our Jobs&rsquo;<\/h2>\n<p>Contrary to the belief by Roe&rsquo;s supporters that the final outcome could be changed if they just demonstrated and threatened and destroyed enough, the conservatives on the court never wavered.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We do not pretend to know how our political system or society will respond to today&rsquo;s decision overruling <em>Roe<\/em> and <em>Casey<\/em>,&rdquo; Alito wrote in his <em>Dobbs<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/21pdf\/19-1392_6j37.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion<\/a>. &ldquo;And even if we could foresee what will happen, we would have no authority to let that knowledge influence our decision. We can only do our job, which is to interpret the law, apply longstanding principles of <em>stare decisis<\/em>, and decide this case accordingly.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Fox report on Hemingway&rsquo;s new book comes after former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer reported rumors <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/gc22gc\/status\/2045305095165022619?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">earlier this week<\/a> that the Supreme Court&rsquo;s liberal minority is once again &ldquo;slow-walking the dissent&rdquo; in a landmark redistricting case <em><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/10\/13\/in-race-based-redistricting-battle-louisiana-urges-scotus-to-uphold-americas-color-blind-constitution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Louisiana v. Callais<\/a><\/em>, &ldquo;so that [the decision] will not be issued in time for many Republican states to actually go in and redistrict based on the decision.&rdquo;  <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaked draft put justices in danger; liberals delayed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2592298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-18-at-3.53.20-AM-1024x578.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,33651],"tags":[78029,78031,78030,6994,47079],"class_list":["post-2592297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","category-the-western-journal","tag-dobbsrelease","tag-judicialdelay","tag-liberaljustices","tag-scotus","tag-supremecourt"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-18-at-3.53.20-AM-1024x578.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2592297"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2592301,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2592297\/revisions\/2592301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2592298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2592297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2592297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2592297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}