In his recent alarm over a widely reported decline in public confidence in the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas chose a worthy target, but his diagnosis missed a major symptom: his own family ties.
Speaking at a conference sponsored by three conservative think tanks, Thomas expressed his dismay in response to the recent unprecedented leak of a draft opinion that suggests the court is poised to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion nationwide.
As shocked as abortion rights supporters were by the draft opinion, conservatives like Thomas sounded more outraged by the leak, which he called “tremendously bad” and “kind of an infidelity” to the norms, trust and respect on which the nation’s critically important institutions rely.
