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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s the thing about the leak. The internal SCOTUS dispute was between an Alito opinion to overturn Roe or a Roberts opinion upholding 15 weeks w/o overturning Roe. The liberals  already lost either way. The 3 Justices with motives to leak were Alito and Thomas, to generate public pressure on the 3 Trump Justices to stick with them, and Roberts, to generate public pressure to get Kavanaugh and/or Barrett to side with him. The leak had to come from one of the three or from an anti-abortion source that one of the three had leaked to. Maybe the leak was only intended to be shared among the anti-abortion community so they could pressure Barrett and Kavanaugh, but somebody tipped off the press. [/quote]

Mitch McConnell would have a motive to leak, to keep the issue from popping up close to the election.
Liberals had motive to put pressure on the other judges to change their votes.[/quote]

Mitch McConnell shouldn’t know anything. It would have to be leaked by someone inside SCOTUS for McConnell to know the status, and he wouldn’t leak to the press, he has more influence behind the scenes through lobbyists than in the public. The liberals knew that Barrett and Kavanaugh were never going to vote with them on this. The leak did nothing for liberals. All the pressure on B and K came from Alito/Thomas and Roberts. Roberts didn’t leak it, the point of the leak was to tip off anti-abortion zealots that Roberts was trying to block them from overturning Roe. It had to come from Alito or Thomas or someone in their camp. [/quote]

I disagree entirely.  The leaker was obviously a liberal who was eager to get this out in order to drum up as much outrage as possible.  Mission accomplished.
DP[/quote]

That doesn’t make any sense. The liberal outrage was inevitable whenever the ruling came out. The leak didn’t increase the amount of liberal outrage. The liberals probably didn’t even know the details of the drama between Alito and Roberts. The internal dispute was all on the anti-abortion side, over how far the decision would go. The liberals were not involved in that. [/quote]
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When the leak happened, to the GOP the leak was the worst betrayal of America’s trust ever. Now that we’ve all had time to think about it and that there’s evidence that Alito is a scuzzy jerk who thinks he’s above everything, suddenly the leak doesn’t matter to them? The leak benefited the GOP by diffusing the anger, killing more women and locking in the wavering vote. It’s the worst kind of judicial activism. [/quote]

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