They're doing some weird live-posting thing where new paragraphs bury the old ones, so here's the text:
Foreign officials and observers have expressed surprise at the news coming from the US Supreme Court.
A spokesperson for UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters that while the issue should be decided by the US, the UK - where abortions are legal until the 24-week mark - "defends the productive rights of women globally".
Scotland's First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, tweeted that "the right of women to decide what happens to our bodies is a human right".
In Spain - where abortions are broadly legal until 14 weeks of pregnancy - a senior government official said that the overturning of Roe v Wade would be "an alarming step back with terrible consequence for American women".
"We need to continue protecting sexual and reproductive rights, in the US and in all the world," said Yolanda Diaz, the country's second deputy prime minister.
In Canada, commentator and political consultant Warren Kinsella wrote in the Toronto Sun that the overturn of Roe v Wade would have "big Canadian political consequences".
"Abortion is the ultimate political wedge — one that mobilizes most Canadian women, of all stripes, to vote to maintain control over their bodies," he wrote. Article share tools
It's fascinating to see the US Gov't described in the same language that has been/is currently levied against, say, Saudi Arabia banning women from driving. I get the sense most Americans haven't noticed how much international perception of us has shifted in the last few years.
i mean, who cares? assuming this wasn't a deliberate leak by the conservative justices, the leaker is (presumably) an HYS grad who clerked for the Court -- their credentials are bullet proof, and if they get outed, they'll be able to parlay the leak into a gig at whatever lib non-profit, or some tenure-track position, with lifetime appearances on MSNBC,
Iirc top law firms give you a 6 figure signing bonus + you start at the equivalent of having worked 3 years at the law firm if you clerked at the Supreme Court. But I think that's conditional on a good relationship, so it'd be genuinely a big loss to get caught.
again, if you graduated top of your class at yale, the fact that (maybe) some white shoed firm is too risk adverse to hire you is small potatoes.
Or they could throw you in solitary, leaving you to wonder what (or, worryingly, if) your lawyer is arguing to get you out.
lol, then you're the Cause célèbre for several news cycles, and your star burns brighter. literally no downside.