Justice Samuel Alito said during an interview on Sunday that he has an opinion about who leaked the draft of the Supreme Court opinion that overturned Roe v. Wade, but that the evidence is still not strong enough for him or the Court to name the person.Alito, who wrote the majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, made the comments during an interview with Shannon Bream on Fox News.Bream asked whether he had an opinion about the leaker.“I do have an opinion. But the evidence available at this time is not strong enough for the court, or for me, to say,” he said.The justice called the disclosure an unprecedented break with the Court’s history.“I never dreamed the draft of the opinion would be leaked. That was totally unprecedented in the history of the country. It was a grave breach of the trust that everybody who worked in this building had before that point,” Alito said. “It very predictably made the five of us in the majority targets for assassination. And nearly resulted in the assassination of my colleague Brett Kavanaugh.”WATCH:Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says he has a “pretty good idea” who leaked the draft Dobbs opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, but he will not name anyone because his suspicion falls short of the proof needed to identify the person.Shannon Bream: “Do you have an opinion about who you think the leaker was?”Justice Samuel Alito: “I do have an opinion, but the evidence available at this time is not strong enough for the court or for me to say this is the person who was responsible.”— RedWave Press (@RedWavePress) October 2, 2026Politico published the draft on May 2, 2022, about seven weeks before the Court issued the final decision on June 24.The draft was nearly identical to the opinion that came down.Chief Justice John Roberts ordered an investigation. The marshal of the Court later reported that the inquiry could not identify who was responsible. Clerks and staff signed affidavits, and the justices were interviewed and were not required to sign them.No one was charged or held accountable.Alito has long said that he has a good idea about who did it.In an April 2023 interview with The Wall Street Journal, he said, “I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible, but that’s different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody.”Alito called theories that a conservative leaked the draft “infuriating,” and said it was implausible that the five justices in the majority would have made themselves targets. He described the leak as part of an effort to stop the draft from becoming the decision of the Court, and said outsiders used those six weeks to try to intimidate the justices.The consequences were not just theoretical.In June 2022, a California man was arrested near Kavanaugh’s house in Maryland with a gun, ammunition, and tools. He later pleaded guilty to attempting to assassinate a Supreme Court justice.Prosecutors said he had been angered by the leaked draft and by the prospect that the Court would restrict abortion.On the decision itself, Alito told Bream the result followed from the text and the history.“I know this is very controversial, but I thought it was perfectly clear, that the reference to liberty in the 14th Amendment adopted in 1868 did not mean that there is a constitutional right to abortion,” he said.Abortion was illegal in most states in 1868, he said, and it was “unthinkable” that those states would have ratified an amendment that wiped out their own laws and then left those laws on the books for decades. He said he expected the ruling to anger people who believe the Constitution protects abortion, but he did not expect the extreme reaction.Dobbs returned the regulation of abortion to the states and to Congress. It did not enact a national ban.The five justices who joined Alito’s opinion overruling Roe were Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. Roberts concurred in the judgment on narrower grounds.The post WATCH: Alito Says He Has an Idea About Who Leaked Opinion That Overturned Roe v. Wade, but the Evidence is Not Strong Enough to Name Them appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.