I'm John Bachelor with John Malcolm, the Vice President of the Edwin Meese,

the Third Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American freedom. He's reviewing the new book by Molly Hemingway, which is a

biography of Justice Samuel Alito. Inside this is the drama turning around the leak of the

Supreme Court decision some years past, overturning Roe v. Wade. Apparently there is a great deal of drama

that comes through in these events. Chiefly, I'm focusing on the young man who claims that he

was ready to assassinate Supreme Court justices to change the direction of the law. It's all very fog of war. But in any event, John,

you believe that what we were witnessing in that period of time was the Supreme Court at great

risk. So as Justice Alito believe the same thing? Yes, he absolutely does. It was appalling. It was without question the most egregious

breach of confidentiality and protocol in the Supreme Court's history. And I'm sad to say that

there have been other leaks not quite as monumental since then. And the leak of Justice Alito's

draft majority opinion in Dobbs literally put a bull's eye on the backs of the

justices. And here's why I say that. An opinion is not official until it is released. Justices can

change their minds at the last minute. And so until all the justices have written whatever opinion is going to write,

majority opinion, dissents, concurrences, what have you, and opinion is not official. So here,

you had a draft majority opinion, a very strong opinion, clearly and definitively overturning

Roe versus Wade. And somebody could very easily come to the conclusion, okay, if I can take out one or more

of the justices in that majority, I may be able to prevent a majority from forming a final

opinion.

In fact, let's, for a moment, let's assume that Nicholas Roski, the guy who was

attempted to kill Justice Kavanaugh, and by the way, he had pledged that you actually wanted to

kill three justices. He didn't name the other two. But let's say he had succeeded. So what

ended up happening in Dobbs was you had five justices in favor of overcoming row.

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