The biggest shock was that the U.S. Supreme Court leaked a draft opinion.
The opinion itself, and the repeal of Roe v. Wade, was foretold by the Republican Party’s blatant campaign to pack the court with justices chosen for their hostility to reproductive freedom and their transparent disrespect for precedents they dislike. That’s one promise Donald Trump kept.
Political aftershocks will reverberate across Florida, where the state Supreme Court has likewise been weaponized into an instrument of right-wing policy. Its historic commitment to abortion rights is also in jeopardy.