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Jackie Calmes

Jackie Calmes: Forget the leak. The justices’ radicalism has shredded the Supreme Court’s integrity

Talk about shooting the messenger.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has ordered the Supreme Court’s marshal, its internal police, to investigate who leaked to Politico a draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and a half-century of abortion rights precedents.

Congress’ Republican leaders likewise decried the leak, not the trashing of a longtime constitutional right. Sen. Mitch McConnell suggested criminal charges might be in order for the whistleblower, er, leaker.

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