Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito said Tuesday that the leak of his draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade endangered the jurists in the conservative majority, making them “targets for assassination.”
“The leak also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us. And we know that,” Justice Alito said at an event sponsored by the Heritage Foundation.
Nicholas Roske, 26, was arrested in June near the home of Justice Brett M.