Hey, everybody. It is 922 Eastern on May 2nd. This is the Muckrake podcast. Nick and I have already recorded an episode today.

And it just came over the wire that Politico has gotten its hands

on a leaked opinion by Samuel Alito, a really, really repulsive leaked opinion. It looks

incredibly legitimate and real and likely that the Supreme Court of the United States of America

has voted to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away protection of a woman's right to choose within

the United States, which would leave it up to the states themselves to determine the legality.

We had to scrap this episode so we can talk about this.

This is obviously one of the bigger news stories that we'll see in a very, very long time.

Nick, we have a few details we need to go over, but initial reactions so far.

Well, you always have to wonder why something like this gets leaked when almost never do these things get leaked

like this so one possibility which I doubt is really the case knowing how

ideological some of these assholes are on the court but one possibility could

very well be is they're gonna leak this see what the reaction is and then you know

they have time between now and June I think when the actual opinion is going to be released to maybe adjust this thing.

They certainly are concerned about the public reaction.

They mentioned this in what was leaked of how, you know, controversial that the decision is and how it continued to cause, you know, a lot of people

anguish. So they have their ear to the ground on that. And so it's maybe, you know, 10% chance

that they're floating us out there to judge the reaction. I don't know. Or there's a possibility

that this is being leaked in order to exert pressure on the court. There is a possibility that maybe we might be looking at something of a hung court.

We might have one justice who's trying to figure out where they stand on this issue.

This is being leaked in order to exert pressure.

Alito might have already, you know, worked on this thing.

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