Alexandra Marquez is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Former Justice Stephen Breyer described the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade as “unfortunate” and sidestepped questions about whether justices had been working on a compromise ruling behind the scenes. In an interview with NBC News' 'Meet the Press,' Breyer didn't say he was upset about the leak while noting that in general he tried to 'avoid getting angry' when he was on the bench.
Watch the full interview Sunday morning at 10:30 a.m. ET or check local listings. Breyer spoke ahead of the release of his book 'Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism.' In the book, he criticizes the Dobbs ruling and the justices who backed a decision to put abortion back in the hands of state governments, writing that their 'hope that legislatures and not courts will decide the abortion question will not be realized.
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