Congratulations to Justice Samuel Alito — and his interlocutor, James Taranto, of the Wall Street Journal — for his plain talk in respect of the campaign to buffalo the Supreme Court. The justice who wrote up the Court’s opinion reversing Roe v. Wade says he has a “pretty good idea” of who leaked the opinion, but he’s certain about the motive. It was “part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft” from “becoming the decision of the court.”

It’s nice that at least one justice is prepared to put the hay down where us mules can get to it. One of the reasons it is clear to Justice Alito that the motive was to prevent the Dobbs draft from becoming law is “that’s how it was used” by “people on the outside — as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.” Plus, too, the Justice reckons that those who were thought to be in the majority “were really targets of assassination.”