the breaking news tonight broken by politico. com reporter josh gerstein and alexander ward. a remarkable development, a draft majority opinion appears to have been leaks from the united states supreme court. this is not something that has ever happened before, at least that we know of. the way that these things work in the united states supreme court, and never been a clerk, i only have a layman s understanding of these things. part of this is described, and mr. garcia and mr. wards article, and part of this we know from just covering so many consequential decisions overtime. there are oral arguments that happen in front of all of the justices, we re familiar with those, we ve heard the audio of them. you may be even been lucky enough on it class trip to hear supreme court arguments in person, we know with those oral arguments are like. and shortly after the oral argument happens, the way the process usually works is that the justices get together, and they hold effectively preliminar
mr. garcia and mr. wards article, and part of this we know from just covering so many consequential decisions overtime. there are oral arguments that happen in front of all of the justices, we re familiar with those, we ve heard the audio of them. you may be even been lucky enough on it class trip to hear supreme court arguments in person, we know with those oral arguments are like. and shortly after the oral argument happens, the way the process usually works is that the justices get together, and they hold effectively preliminary votes, saying i think i m gonna go yes, i think i m gonna go no, based on whichever side is able to cobble together but they believe is going to be the majority in the case. and an individual justice will be assigned, then as a member of the majority, will be assigned to write a draft a majority opinion. now that draft of majority opinion is just a draft that liken any kind of sport, something you write months before, it goes through a number of iterative