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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on May 16, 2022

The leak of a draft opinion regarding abortion has turned the Supreme Court into a place “where you look over your shoulder,” Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday at a conference in Dallas. The Washington Post reports that Thomas also said the leak exposed the “fragile” nature of the court and that trust may be gone forever. “I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them. And then I wonder when they’re gone or destabilized, what we’re going to have as a country.” It was the second time in a week that Thomas decried declining respect for institutions; he made similar remarks at a conference of judges and lawyers two weeks ago.