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Alison Stine

REVEALED: 5 unsung whistleblowers on screen | Rare Historical Photos

Julia Roberts in "Gaslit" STARZ

In the saga of the leaked Supreme Court draft judgment that repeals abortion rights, there is an unspoken major character: the whistleblower. Someone leaked the document to the media in which conservative Justice Samuel Alito authored an opinion to reverse Roe V. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion judgement. 

This is considered to be the first leak of its kind to crack the façade of the Supreme Court. As ABC News reported, "Currently, the leaker has not been identified and the motive remains unknown," with arguments being both made for the whistleblower potentially having conservative reasons — to lock the judges into their radical reversal — or liberal: to sound the alarm.

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