Did a Republican leak the draft SCOTUS opinion - Almost everyone may comment

Rioberts doesn't support the overturn. It doesn't matter. Dems have nothing to gain. If this comes out in June, that's better for them politically. Roe was dead either way. Doesn't matter if we found out now or in June.

IT WAS GINNI
 
It is one of those means, motive, and opportunity sort of things.

Conservative judges only hire conservative clerks, so only conservative clerks would have had the means and opportunity to get the draft opinion being prepared only by conservative judges. Moderate clerks would not have the means or opportunity.

A moderate clerk would want this to be sprung on everyone as late in the election process as possible. That gives Republicans the least amount of time to respond. Conservative clerks would want this as early as possible, so Republicans would have the most amount of time to find a successful response.

But most importantly, a conservative clerk would want this passed the point of no return. Without the draft being released, the Conservative judges could have altered it to soften it. We know they were getting political advise on how to soften it. A conservative clerk (a true believer) would not want it softened.

Wrong. The draft copies would have been distributed to all justices for review. Those dissenting would want copies to help craft their rebuttals. Thus, the more Progressive judges with Leftist clerks would have had copies too. Those Leftist clerks had far more political and personal motive to leak a copy than any conservative clerk would. They'd see it as damaging to the Conservative cause and Republicans in an upcoming election where, by every indication, the Left loses badly. They had more to gain in theory than a conservative clerk did leaking it.
 
IMHO this is where the meaningful discussions about abortion rights should go. I believe that women should have an absolute right to an abortion in the first trimester, after that, any abortion should be limited by circumstances, and those circumstances are legitimate discussion points. Every other position is just for show.
Absolutely. Every supposed 'pro life' advocate views every aborted fetus as a toddler, and every 'pro choice' advocate views every aborted embryo as a grain of rice.

There is a chasm between the two, and our lawmakers prefer it that way.
 
I say yes. There is nothing for Democrats to gain by leaking this document. Americans are opposed to overturning Roe v. Wade. Therefore public opinion is not going to change the minds of any of the Five Fucktards that make up the majority of the court. So the most likely reason for leaking the documents was to keep the pressure on those justices NOT to change their minds in some back room deal. And Republicans are dishonest and lack integrity. So it was obviously one of their own that did this.

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IDK, but I’d bet it was someone who supported Roe v. Wade.
 
First trimester was a brilliant compromise.

It's still hard to believe that this court is going to trash that.

It’s part of the overall RW theocratic agenda; subjugate women, deny gays their right to marriage, stomp minorities into the lower income….make America white again just like the Bible says. :thup:
 
It was obviously Ginni Thomas who leaked it.

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IDK, but I’d bet it was someone who supported Roe v. Wade.

What makes you think that?

If that was the case, why wasn't it leaked in February, when it was first circulated?

Or why didn't they sit on it longer in order to be closer to the election?

Why leak it at the beginning of May, when it doesn't really do anyone any good?

This was clearly the work of Ginni Thomas.
 
Stolen Meme

Of course it was Ginni Thomas, she has already done something like this with her attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

She is a political operative, so she leaked it now in order to soften the blow when the decision is formally released.

She's making a bet that by the time the decision is issued, people will have moved on to something else.

She's the leaker.

It doesn't make sense for anyone else to leak it.
 
What makes you think that?

If that was the case, why wasn't it leaked in February, when it was first circulated?

Or why didn't they sit on it longer in order to be closer to the election?

Why leak it at the beginning of May, when it doesn't really do anyone any good?

This was clearly the work of Ginni Thomas.
Again, IDK. However, if an anti-abortion authoritarian asshole released it, what would they hope to gain?
 
Again, IDK. However, if an anti-abortion authoritarian asshole released it, what would they hope to gain?

Soften the blow of when the decision is formally released because leaking it now gets it in the 24 hour news cycle and by the time the formal decision is released, the gamble Thomas is making is that people will have moved on to something else by then.

It doesn't make sense for anyone else OTHER THAN GINNI THOMAS to release it. Leaking it was a political act, and we already know Ginni Thomas uses the Supreme Court as a political tool thanks to her meddling in the 2020 election.

Makes no sense that it would be any of the liberal justices or their clerks, or any of the Nazi justices or theirs.

But Ginni Thomas has access and motive.
 
Of course it was Ginni Thomas, she has already done something like this with her attempt to overthrow the 2020 election.

She is a political operative, so she leaked it now in order to soften the blow when the decision is formally released.

She's making a bet that by the time the decision is issued, people will have moved on to something else.

She's the leaker.

It doesn't make sense for anyone else to leak it.

We need a link.
 
Very possible.

She's the only political operative with access and motive.

She wanted to get it out now, so that by the time the decision is formally released, outrage fatigue will have set in...at least, that's the gamble she is making.
 
Soften the blow of when the decision is formally released because leaking it now gets it in the 24 hour news cycle and by the time the formal decision is released, the gamble Thomas is making is that people will have moved on to something else by then.

It doesn't make sense for anyone else OTHER THAN GINNI THOMAS to release it. Leaking it was a political act, and we already know Ginni Thomas uses the Supreme Court as a political tool thanks to her meddling in the 2020 election.

Makes no sense that it would be any of the liberal justices or their clerks, or any of the Nazi justices or theirs.

But Ginni Thomas has access and motive.
I suggested her this morning. She's pretty much the only person in a small group of possibilities that includes clerks. The latter would be easily traced, so I'm sticking with Thomas.
 
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