Alito confident in identifying Dobbs leaker, but remains tight-lipped.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. believes he knows who leaked his draft Supreme Court opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade last year, but neither he nor the court can prove it. Alito said he was sure the leak “was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft … from becoming the decision of the court. And that’s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.” Alito also defended the court’s willingness to overturn legal precedents, saying some cases, such as Roe and the court’s follow-up decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, “are so egregiously wrong, so clearly wrong, that that’s a very strong factor in support of overruling them.”