“How exactly does this leak influence the Supremes?”
It’s a hail Mary play. The leftist media and their allies hope to put immense pressure on those voting to overturn Roe to change their vote. I don’t know if it is even possible for that to happen but someone apparently thinks they need to try.
It’s possible because they have not published a final opinion.
this leak tells us just how bad the internal polling must be for the dims.
Let’s assume the nuclear option here democrat-style. If this leak is real, the entire left will take the lethal step and immediately force a vote to expand the Court by say seven members, all to be picked asap by Biden and his handlers. Once that is established, the next session will see a plethora of abortion “rights” cases, all decided in favor of unlimited infanticide.
Alternative II: Congress will quickly pass a law legalizing unlimited abortion by federal statute. They will argue that returning the option to the State legislatures takes it out of the hands of the judiciary but does not preclude the Federal legislature from making its own law.