• Supreme Court justices bowed to the pressure when the public saw how they were leaning in the historic vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, according to a new book.
• The unprecedented leak of a draft opinion showing the court was preparing to overturn the landmark ruling that protected abortion as a constitutional right solidified the votes of anyone who might have been wavering, Joan Biskupic reported in her forthcoming book, Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences.
• Biskupic reported that once Alito’s draft opinion was leaked last May, the justices who were leaning toward overturning Roe determined they wouldn’t back down.

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