What does the Supreme Court leak mean for the NY carry case?

The bombshell leak of the draft opinion in the Dobbs case is already having major consequences in Washington, D.C. with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts weighing bringing in the FBI to investigate who gave a copy of  the opinion to POLITICO weeks before the official opinion was expected to drop. The leak may not change much about the eventual outcome of the case (though there’s speculation that was the actual intent of the leak), but it will definitely re-invigorate the calls from Democrats to nuke the filibuster and pack the Court with progressive justices; something not likely to happen between now and November but a near certainty if Democrats manage to hang on to their majorities in the midterms.

I’d say that’s also not likely to happen, at least at the moment, but I do expect it to now become a major campaign talking point for much of the Left between now and November. And if Roe is overturned by the Dobbs opinion, you can better believe that the pro-Second Amendment decisions in Heller, McDonald, and (hopefully) the upcoming Bruen case will all be targeted by Democrats hoping to overturn them once they have a majority on the Court.

Meanwhile, the long-held secrecy surrounding the Court’s deliberations is starting to show some serious cracks. Not only do we have the release of the draft opinion, but as my friend and colleague Ed Morrissey points out at HotAir, there are some secondary leaks.around the Dobbs decision that are starting to emerge.