Following the protests that erupted after the leak of the draft opinion of the US Supreme Courtintends to overturn the historic 1973 decision to legalize abortion at federal level, Judge Clarence Thomas said Friday that the court can not be “intimidated”.
The leak caused political stormwith supporters of the right to abortion to mobilize outside the court building and elsewhere in the US, but also an internal crisis in the country’s highest court, where an investigation is underway into the source of the unprecedented revelation.
Thomas, one of the most conservative judges in the nine-member Supreme Courtmade some indirect references to the reactions to the leak in his speech in Atlanta.
As a society “we are addicted to wanting specific results, not living with the results we do not like “, commented Thomas. «We can not become an institution that can be intimidated into announcing the decisions you want. The events of this week are a symptom of this situation»he added.
Police have set up an iron fence around the Supreme Court building following the peaceful demonstrations.
The draft ruling, drafted by Judge Samuel Alito and leaked to the Politico news website on Monday, states that the 1973 “Row v. Wade” ruling, which based the right to abortion on the constitutional right to privacy, was “devoid of principle”. as “not protected by any provision of the Constitution” of the United States.
The Supreme Court confirmed the authenticity of the documentbut added that this is not his final decision, which is expected to be announced by the end of June.
Alito canceled his appearance at another conference yesterday and preferred to send a videotaped message, in which he stated that “it would not be practical “ to attend the conference.
On Thursday, Judge John Roberts commented that the leak was something “absolutely disgusting“, But pledged not to influence the work of the Supreme Court.
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