The bombshell dropped on a Monday night. The Supreme Court had voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 decision that swept aside all 50 states’ abortion laws and legalized the procedure throughout the country.A draft opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito leaked to Politico, which published the story on May 2. In it, Alito unashamedly rejected the court’s abortion jurisprudence in both Roe and the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey ruling. “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” he writes in a document marked as the “Opinion of the Court.” “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”The substance of the leak and the leak itself, an unusual breach of discretion for the high court, were big stories on their own. Together, they consumed all the oxygen the news cycle had to offer.People poured into the streets. By that night, up to 1,000 gathered outside the Supreme Court, mostly in protest. Barriers were erected to protect the building, with memories of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack last year still fresh. The assembled were carrying signs with such slogans as “You can’t stop abortion” and “Be pro-abortion, POTUS.”President Joe Biden did not disappoint the young woman wielding the second placard. "My administration argued strongly before the Court in defense of Roe v. Wade," he said in a statement issued by the White...