CNN: Roberts lobbied Kavanaugh to save Roe — but the leak made it “all but impossible” HotAir

Strong vibes here from Joan Biskupic that the leaker must have come from the Court s conservative side, not the liberal one.

We already knew, or sort of knew, from the now famous WSJ editorial in late April that Roberts was lobbying the Court s conservatives not to overturn Roe. John wrote about it on April 27, less than a week before Politico published the draft of Alito s opinion. That created a motive for a pro-lifer inside the Court to have leaked the opinion: After all, if Roberts was going to work on Kavanaugh and Barrett to switch their votes, one way to try to lock them into those votes was to alert the wider public that they d already voted informally to ditch Roe. Once the public knew that, any last-second vote switches to the pro-choice position would have looked like a failure of nerve, destroying the switcher s credibility.

via hotair.com

There’s a lot of lyin’ going on, it seems.