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The Supreme Court\u2019s liberal justices delayed releasing their dissents on the 2022 landmark abortion decision, brushing aside requests from conservative justices who faced threats following the leak of the draft decision, according to a new book from conservative author Mollie Hemingway.<\/p>\n
In Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution<\/a>, which was released on Tuesday, Hemingway lays out how Justice Samuel Alito\u2019s balance of principles and pragmatism delivered one of the most important Supreme Court rulings in American history. She also goes behind the scenes following the shocking leak of the Dobbs <\/i>v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health <\/i>decision.<\/p>\n On May 12, 2022 \u2014 10 days after POLITICO published the leaked majority opinion in Dobbs<\/i> \u2014 justices met in conference to set the dates for the release of looming decisions. The Dobbs <\/i>ruling was at the top of conservative justices\u2019 minds during the conference.<\/p>\n \u201cThe majority opinion had been done for more than three months and was waiting only for the dissents,\u201d wrote Hemingway, the editor-in-chief of The Federalist. \u201cAlito asked the dissenters to make the completion of their dissents their priority because delay of the decision was a security threat. Abortion supporters had an incentive to kill one or more of the justices in the majority to change the outcome. The dissenters demurred.\u201d<\/p>\n Justice Neil Gorsuch pressed the liberal justices to give a date when they could expect the dissents to be completed, but the liberals refused to set any date, according to Hemingway.<\/p>\n \u201cFollowing the conference, Justice Elena Kagan visited Justice Stephen Breyer\u2019s office,\u201d Hemingway continued. \u201cThough he had not yet said he would accommodate the justices whose lives were at risk by getting out a dissent, he was the member of the liberal bloc most willing to do so \u2026 Kagan remonstrated with Breyer not to accommodate the majority, screaming so loudly, observers noted, that the \u2018wall was shaking.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with The Daily Wire, Hemingway called the liberal justices\u2019 stunt \u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou had the actual justices having their lives threatened multiple times a day, their children\u2019s lives threatened, their spouses\u2019 lives threatened. They had to move out of their homes. They had to wear bulletproof vests,\u201d she added. \u201cThere was a man who was arrested for trying to kill Brett Kavanaugh and his family, and he said he wanted to take out three justices.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDelaying a decision because even though you know that abortion is not really mentioned in the Constitution you wish it were, even if it costs the lives of your colleagues, it\u2019s outrageous and shocking behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n