Justice Thomas warns leak of abortion draft judgment could herald the END of the Supreme Court

Justice Clarence Thomas on Friday compared the leak of fellow Justice’s Samuel Alito’s draft opinion regarding Roe v Wade to ‘infidelity.’

Thomas, 73, said that the leak would weaken the public’s trust in the Supreme Court as an institution. 

He told host John Yoo that the leak from the Supreme Court was ‘tremendously bad.’ 

Thomas pondered: ‘I wonder how long we’re going to have these institutions at the rate we’re undermining them and then I wonder when they’re gone or destabilized what we will have as a country and I don’t think the prospects are good if we continue to lose them.’  

He continued: ‘When you lose that trust, especially in the institution that I’m in, it changes the institution fundamentally. You begin to look over your shoulder. It’s like kind of an…