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Making Sense of the Supreme Court Leak

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Why Did Elido End Up With the Majority Opinion?

If it were thomas, why didn't he write it himself? Why not assign it to himself? I mean, the te i will tell you why. Because thomas has his writing a separate concurrence, saying that abortion should be prohibited by the fourteenth amendment. You would not assign brown v board of education to the most senior, a junior, justice on the court, regardless. That's a really good explanation for how elido ends up with the majority opinion. It gets assigned to aledo. Based on this source, the draft circulates february. This is the first draft. We don't have any of the next drafts, and presumably there are later drafts.

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