Supreme Court leaks are rare but not without precedent

The leak of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito's draft majority opinion, which sets the stage for the court to overturn Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, elicited shock from longtime observers of the court, which has rarely had information about its deliberations leak to the public.

The leaked document was shared with journalists at Politico, who published the details of the draft opinion Monday evening. The outlet claimed that "no draft decision in the modern history of the court has been disclosed publicly while a case was still pending," a nod to the rarity of such breaches.