A federal court filing confirms the leak of the Supreme Court’s draft ruling on Roe v Wade inspired the assassination attempt of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
A draft of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked to Politico’s senior legal reporter Josh Gerstein in May 2022.
Via Politico: “The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO.”
Justice Alito’s opinion is a “full-throated, unflinching repudiation” according to Politico.
“Roe was egregiously wrong from the start,” Alito wrote in the draft that was leaked to the media. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled. It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to…