From horrific mass shootings to fiercely competitive state primary elections, the unrelenting crush of domestic news, for a time, pushed aside the unprecedented leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that could overturn Roe v. Wade. But as efforts to identify the source of the leaked draft intensify—and as we near the release of a decision that is expected to have sweeping social and political implications—the public’s focus is swinging back to the Supreme Court, and to questions over the legitimacy of a body whose image may already have been tarnished by allegations of increasingly partisan rulings.

The breach of Supreme Court confidentiality protocols that revealed Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion rocked the legal world. And solving the biggest legal “who done it” story in years could risk causing more damage to the image of the court.

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