Republican lawmakers are demanding a federal investigation into who leaked an apparent draft of a majority opinion showing that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
The leak of the 98-page document — an extraordinary occurrence for the highly guarded institution — has rocked Washington and infuriated conservatives who said the breach was designed to intimidate the court and called for the person responsible to be caught and prosecuted.
GOP Sen. Ted Cruz, a former Texas solicitor general who has argued cases before the Supreme Court, called for an FBI investigation into the leak and said the person responsible "should be prosecuted and should go to jail for a very long time." Top GOP leaders on the Hill also piled on. In a statement, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell described the leak as “lawless action” and “yet another escalation in the radical left’s ongoing campaign to bully and intimidate federal judges and substitute mob rule for the rule of law.”
McConnell’s statement Tuesday made no mention of the substance of the leak: Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion that Roe. v. Wade and the later 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey “must be overruled.”out Tuesday showed that 58 percent of Americans say that abortion should be legal in all or most cases, and 54 percent say the Supreme Court should uphold Roe v. Wade.
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