Dobbs Leaker’s Legacy: Lifting Mob Rule Over Rule of Law
The leaker didn't only do irrevocable damage to the Supreme Court—he or she also struck a blow for mob rule over the rule of law, and therefore against justice and civilization itself
Dobbs Leaker’s Legacy: Lifting Mob Rule Over Rule of Law
The most charitable interpretation of the gambit by a still unnamed individual to leak Justice Samuel Alito’s draft Dobbs opinion is that the leaker felt it to be his or her righteous duty to destroy justice in a desperate bid to “save” it.
Regardless of whether done under a perverse sense of good faith, or bad, the despicable deed transcends the damage in wrecked “norms,” and with it the erosion of trust within and integrity outside the highest court in the land. In effect, it served as a naked act of intimidation, predictably fueling a mob aimed at making judges rule based on the threat of force over reason.
As I argue in a new piece at the Epoch Times, the leaker not only irrevocably damaged the Supreme Court but also struck a blow for mob rule over the rule of law—and therefore against justice and civilization itself.
As I conclude:
The broader context makes the leak more devastating.
Recall the duress under which jurors operated in the Derek Chauvin case, and the threat of chaos on the streets should it not have been decided “rightly.”
Recall…the Black Lives Matter riots of the summer of 2020.
Recall the tenants in cities across the country who boarded up their windows before election night that year, anticipating what would happen if the mob did not get its way.
Add to it the advent of a Ministry of Truth, part and parcel of the War on Wrongthink, and we see that force in the way of censorship and violence is all the left has left.
Our civilization is on fire, and the arsonists want us to believe it is their critics who are to blame.
Among the most prominent of these arsonists now is the Dobbs leaker.
Read the whole thing here.