Stephen L. Carter, Columnist

The Supreme Court Leaker Should Come Forward

The draft of a ruling repudiating Roe v. Wade has become public, which means someone is abusing colleagues’ trust.

May 3, 2022 at 11:21 AM UTC

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster.”

At the center of another firestorm.
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Decades ago, during my service as a law clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court, a friend who was also a reporter called me at my desk, rushed through a question about a rumor flying around the city, and then added breathlessly, “Of course I’ll protect you as my source.”

The conversation was ... short.