What we can deduce from a leaked PDF
&gt; There­fore, I don’t think the source is someone who works at the Supreme Court, like a justice or a clerk. Justices under­stand that they don’t always end up in the majority. Clerks rely on these jobs as a calling card for the rest of their careers.<p>I think people underestimate how ideological the legal profession has become. On an increasing number of social issues, liberal lawyers (which is 90% of them) believe that their position is not only correct, but above debate and above the political and legal process. They begrudgingly accept that economic issues are subject to political debate, but moral issues are their exclusive domain, and politics and law are merely vehicles for imposing the moral views of highly educated professionals on the unwashed masses.<p>It doesn’t matter that <i>Roe</i> is so bad that numerous prominent liberal legal scholars are unable to defend its reasoning: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;honest-pro-choicers-admit-roe-v-wade-was-a-horrible-decision" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.washingtonexaminer.com&#x2F;honest-pro-choicers-admit...</a>. It must be the law of the land forever because it’s proponents are <i>right</i> and it’s opponents are “on the wrong side of history.” The arc of history bends towards justice, after all, and no institutional norm can override the march of progress.<p>A breach of trust like this is obviously a serious offense in a profession where keeping people’s confidences is fundamental to the job. But nonetheless there’s plenty of corporate law firms where these leakers will be feted, not condemned.