I don’t agree with you, and I do not think that was the case.
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Roberts clearly believes there is a right to an abortion.
People are muddying the waters, but it’s right there in his words:
“Our precedents in this area ground the abortion right in a woman’s ‘right to choose,’” he says. “The law at issue allows abortions up through fifteen weeks, providing an adequate opportunity to exercise the right Roe protects. “
John Roberts
He also wrote that overruling Roe would somehow damage the legal system, and was “unsettling” to the nation.
Reminiscent of Obamacare blender-pretzel twisting justification.
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I obviously don’t know either but it would have been a good, and pretty obvious, strategy.
I can’t imagine Roberts changing his vote after the leak. He, of all people, wouldn’t want to show the court responding to public opinion.
I’d expect everyone around SCOTUS to know that.