In response to the leak, Chief Justice Roberts said: "The work of the Court will not be affected in any way."[79] At an Eleventh Circuit judicial conference, he called the leak "absolutely appalling" and said that "one bad apple" should not change "people's perception" of the Supreme Court;[80] Justice Thomas commented that the Court should not be "bullied" into delivering preferred outcomes and repeated his criticisms of stare decisis.[81] He later added that the leak was an "unthinkable breach of trust" that "fundamentally" changed the Court.[82][83]