The leftist Supreme Court justices are facing accusations that they literally put their conservative colleagues’ lives at risk because they were so beholden to Roe v. Wade and abortion on demand.
Liberal Supreme Court justices slow-walked completion of their dissents in the landmark Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, according to a new book.
They delayed its official release for 53 days even as the five conservative justices in the majority faced death threats and assassination attempts following the leak of a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade.
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That’s according to a new report on Mollie Hemingway’s forthcoming book.
The May 2, 2022, leak of the 98-page draft to Politico triggered protests outside the homes of conservative justices, vandalism and arson at hundreds of pregnancy centers, churches and pro-life organizations, and an assassination attempt on Justice Brett Kavanaugh and potentially the other conservative justices.
“Abortion supporters had an incentive to kill one or more of the justices in the majority to change the outcome,” Hemingway wrote in Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution. “Everyone knew that the leak posed a serious security risk for justices. Since decisions do not take effect until issued officially from the bench, the death of a justice before then could alter the result. The threat of assassination increased dramatically.”
Six days after the leak, on Mother’s Day, a radical firebombed the headquarters of Wisconsin Family Action, a pro-life group in Madison. In the following weeks, hundreds of pregnancy centers, churches and pro-life organizations were vandalized, some set ablaze.
Protesters demonstrated outside the homes of the conservative justices.
More than a month after the leak, Nicholas Roske, then 26, arrived at Kavanaugh’s home armed with a Glock pistol, ammunition, zip ties, a tactical knife, pepper spray, a hammer, duct tape and other items. He told authorities he planned to kill a justice or justices to prevent Roe from being overturned.
Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the majority opinion, asked the three liberal justices — Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor — to complete their work promptly.
“Alito asked the dissenters to make the completion of their dissents their priority because delay of the decision was a security threat,” Hemingway wrote.
The dissenters “demurred,” according to the book.
Justice Neil Gorsuch asked when the liberals expected to finish their work, but they refused to provide a date. The majority opinion had been ready for months, with only the dissents outstanding.
Hemingway’s account also describes Kagan confronting Breyer angrily behind closed doors, screaming so loudly that “the wall was shaking,” after Alito’s request to speed up the process.
The Dobbs decision was not officially released until 53 days after the leak, restoring to the states the authority to protect unborn life that had been stripped away by the 1973 Roe ruling. The delay left the conservative justices vulnerable longer amid heightened threats from abortion activists determined to preserve the prior regime of unrestricted abortion.
