“The leak is an unbelievable breach of every ethic the Supreme Court has ever held onto,” conservative media host Ben Shapiro said.
But a leak of this magnitude is not without precedent. In 1973, a Supreme Court clerk leaked the original Roe v. Wade ruling to a TIME reporter hours before it was announced.
That leak led former Chief Justice Warren Burger to create a rule enabling any clerk caught speaking with a reporter to be fired in fewer than 30 seconds.