Roe v. Wade is to be overturned but media seems to care more about the "leak" violating "norms"

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@beschizza

How can the story—the overturning of a half-century of abortion rights—be less newsworthy than the method of its discovery? How can the privacy of the justices’ deliberations be more concrete than the constitutional privacy that women are about to learn they don’t have anymore? How can editorial focus so consistently embody the complaints of political critics rather than tell readers what the damned news is?

It’s an abject failure that they buy into it, rather than recognizing it; but, when coating often-brutal exercises of force with a veneer of procedure in the hopes of having it develop a patina of legitimacy is such an ancient and central aspect of governance, knowing how to treat the technicalities as the crux of the matter is an invaluable skill for both getting your agenda past others and for facing yourself in the mirror.