Supreme Court leak is shameful attempt to poison an outstanding opinion

A reportedly draft majority opinion by Justice Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe v. Wade has been leaked to the general public. The reactions from the usual groups on the left and Democrat politicians have consisted of—well, the same histrionics they have displayed to try to poison decades of Supreme Court nominations and decisions.

And Justice Alito’s reported draft opinion delivers. It is thoughtful, scholarly, and thorough. It does the work that the majority in Roe and in its later muddled precedent, Planned Parenthood v. Casey, refused to do, looking to the Constitution itself to determine whether it includes right to an abortion. And the opinion concludes it does not.