night making a lot of noise hope that they would do and perhaps that was the motive of the leaker. we just don t know whether that was the motive or not. i think joe is right that it s not going to be the same. i just don t know. of course, we simply don t know whether it could end up different. it wouldn t shock me if the final decision upholds the mississippi law but doesn t strike down roe. pete in that same statement justice roberts called this a singular and egregious breach of trust. i won t ask you to speculate on who leaked it. i don t know. what about the impact on the court? as you ve said from the early moments when this story came out in politico, this is without precedent in modern history. what is the impact on the trust
the tampa bay times asking, quote, what comes next? former chief justice john roberts says the first order of business has been to launch an internal investigation to find out who leaked the draft decision. remember, only a small number of people would have had access to it, including law clerks for the justices, the court s administrative staff and the justices themselves. across washington, the reaction showed a stark divide between parties with most republicans focusing obsessively on the leak, while most democrats focused on the ruling itself. the white house already calling on lawmakers to protect abortion rights and asking voters to elect more pro-choice politicians all under the assumption is ruling is accurate and will go forward in june. before heading to alabama tuesday, president biden said basic fairness required abortion
rights not be overturned. after 50 years we re going to decide a woman does not have the right to choose. if this decision holds, it s really quite a radical decision. on tuesday, senate majority leader chuck schumer and house speaker nancy pelosi released a joint statement that read in part, several of these conservative justices who are in no way accountable to the american people have lied to the u.s. senate, ripped up the constitution and defiled precedent and the supreme court s reputation. in fact, at least two republican senators seem to share that notion. moderates susan collins and lisa murkowski both say they were led to believe the trump nominad justics said they would leave the ruling in place.
full court. of course, then the people who presumably were in this initial vote of five start going back and forth and they send notes. they don t talk to each other. they send notes to alito saying, i m with you, but i can t join this part. just because of their initial vote, that doesn t mean they re going to sign onto whatever justice alito comes up with. it s a starting point. they say you have to change this if you want my vote or you have to add this. i mean, one question here, in the draft opinion we see justice alito saying, don t worry, just because we re going to strike down roe, it doesn t mean we re going to strike down same-sex marriage or interracial marriage or contraceptive protections. don t worry, this won t touch that. did he put that in on his own? did somebody ask for that? that s the kind of thing that changes. then the dissenters write their
not just from the court and the public but inside the court? there have been leaks in the past. of course, they always rile the court, sometimes make the chief justice furious. but we say not modern history. i don t think in any of the supreme court s history there s ever been a fully written draft leaked. the chief justice did say, to the extent this betrayal of the confidences of the court was intended to undermine the integrity of our operations, it will not succeed. the work of the court will not be affected in any way. i wonder if that s true. in any way? it s hard to believe that this leak hasn t cast some suspicion, maybe made it just a little bit more chilly to do some of the work that the court has to do inside that building. they ve got 37 decisions yet to announce in the next two months, including this one. but he s trying to make the point of, you know, we ll still do our jobs. and i m sure that s true.