Molly Hemingway

There have actually been quite a few leaks from the court.

They're usually not that important.

You know, things coming out years out after the fact, or maybe the results of a decision will be leaked to a friendly reporter or something like that.

But this was the first time in history that a complete decision in draft form had been released to the public.

It was absolutely unprecedented.

But you saw the news just this past weekend that there are more papers being leaked.

In order to advance a cause, and it appears that, again, you know, a big complaint of the liberal justices is that the court isn't playing along with lower court federal judges, you know, doing this national injunction game, and they don't like how they're handling the emergency docket.

So a leak comes out to help the liberal justices.

And so, you know, it's kind of shocking and alarming and also probably the result of what happens when you don't hold people accountable for leaking in the first place.

Well, I was very interested to see this latest reporting that the liberal justices are slow walking the decision about the racial gerrymandering case that they heard in October.

A lot of people have been wondering, why have we not gotten this case from October resolved?

Everything else has been resolved.

What's the holdup?

And there's reporting that they are once again slow walking.

And the reasoning there, a lot of people are speculating, is because

The longer that the decision takes to come out, the less states can respond to the result of that decision.

And it is believed that it would really hurt Democrats if this decision were going the way people expect that it will be going.

So a lot of times Americans and conservative Americans really love to focus on Justice Scalia, that sort of father of originalism, or Justice Thomas, who's widely regarded as one of the country's greatest Americans, right?

But Alito is, unlike those two, very reserved, very shy, and he's kind of flown under the radar.

A couple years ago when I was interviewing a bunch of the justices and other people for a book I co-authored with Kerry Severino, they were all saying, why does nobody pay attention to Alito?