This is a first since the founding of the American republic.
A confidential document stolen from the Supreme Court is thrown into the public square.
It reveals an America more than ever divided against itself the preliminary version of a judgment, supported by a majority of the magistrates, which invalidates the right to abortion, legalized by the same Court half a century earlier.
This premeditated theft deliberately put the final deliberations of the judges at the mercy of the partisan passions that the leak was sure to inflame.
The issue of abortion, which has been less virulent in recent years, has not really left the national scene since the Roe vs. Wade judgment of 1973 (completed in 1992), which legalized the voluntary termination of pregnancy.
Other major controversies – desegregation in schools, decriminalization of homosexuality, legalization of interracial unions and same-sex marriages – ended up being tamed, failing to garner a…
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