Wouldn’t put it past the dems for this to be all part of their plan. I’d put even money on a Breyer clerk who already has some sort of bulletproof lib law career lined up or a Kenjati Brown associate who got access to USSC files that s/he wasn’t supposed to normally have access to but were provided out of normal channels as a courtesy.
The scandal of the leak itself is going to be shouted down because the news (which was going to come out in due time anyway) is much more important. It also helps intimidate the fence-sitting conservative justices and their staffers letting them know that for the core issue of abortion, they’ll be willing and eager to go to lengths beyond what any historical norm or traditional boundary would normally stop them at.
The best thing that could happen now is for the vote to go 9-0.