Roe v. Wade - Why Was the "Draft" Leaked?

Everyone is afire about the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court's supposed "draft" decision on Roe v. Wade. Ho-hum. There are things to be said about Roe, which I'd like to address later, but for now, I'm just wondering, since we knew what was coming, why would someone take the risk of leaking it?

Hmmm.  How about politics? We have an election coming in October. All political observers at this point are saying Republicans are far more motivated to go to the polls than Democrats. But many also have suggested in recent days the actual decision (i.e. the Court really is going to kill Roe v. Wade) might fire up a lot of Democrats and push them to the polls. What if the leaker had known that the Court intended to delay release of the decision until after the election?

If you say the revered non-partisan Court would never do such a thing, I counter that the Court created lots of doubt about its vaunted apolitical stance as far back as the Bush-Gore election. And Trump and McConnell put lots of icing on that cake. I for one no longer believe the Court can be considered unbiased.  And if you should note that the Court usually announces the decisions of each term at least by October, I might ask, do you really suppose, in the sort of political climate we "enjoy" these days, that they couldn't trump up a reason to delay releasing that one?

Food for thought, say I. 

Comments

[PiedType]

We can only guess at the motive of the person who leaked the decision, but the result obviously has been poking the sleeping pro-choice contingent into a frenzy that, I hope, will carry over to the election.

I don't know if the court can delay announcing the decision. Their current session ends in June or July, when they will have announced their decisions on all the issues before them in this session.

I haven't considered the court unbiased for quite some time, but the current Trump court is beyond the pale. And they have life appointments!

[JHawk23]

Regret the delay in acknowledging the truth of your point that the Court announces its decisions at the end of the current session, i.e. June or July. My oversight.

Yet I remain uneasy, in the prevailing climate where norms and even laws are overlooked or overturned, that an excuse for delay could be manufactured.