Alito says leak of draft abortion ruling put justices at risk of assassination

Grave betrayal of trust' made conservative supreme court justices targets, author of opinion reversing Roe v Wade claims

The leak of the draft supreme court opinion abolishing the right to abortion put members of the conservative majority at risk of assassination, Samuel Alito, the author of the draft, has said.

Speaking in Washington at a rightwing thinktank, the Heritage Foundation, Alito called the leak a month before the final ruling was released a grave betrayal of trust by somebody" that put several justices in danger.