My vote for the leaker of the SP opinion.

[halfulglas]

I'm basing this on the fact that this is the first draft, not one of subsequent drafts, and the fairly wide speculation that it was a conservative who leaked to put pressure on the court members not to soften or moderate Alito's hard line. Most ex justice clerks claim it's unthinkable that the leaker was one of the clerks. Considering that it's the first draft, I'm thinking maybe a particular judge took it home and it fell into the hands of his wife who thinks since both she and her husband are interchangeable to do each other's jobs. She probably thinks it's her job to put pressure on the other judges now.

You guessed it, I'm placing my bet on Ginni Thomas.

[onecaliberal]

1. I think it's her too.

[Tumbulu]

2. Could be! nt

[MerryHolidays]

4. I think it's someone on the conservative side

If it had been on the liberal side, it would have been leaked much earlier and probably not to Politico. Perhaps one of the right-wingers on SCOTUS was beginning to have cold feet in overturning Roe and Casey, and this was meant to bring them back in line.

Pure speculation, but leaking a February 2022 draft in May 2022 is a slight bit odd.

[CentralMass]

5. You are most likely correct.

[Emile]

6. You might be on to something. Makes sense!

[C_U_L8R]

7. It's a good bet she knows someone at Politico.

[NCjack]

8. You changed my pick. It is likely to be Clarence's wife.

If it was Ginni, maybe it will be enough to impeach and remove Clarence.