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Washington (AFP) – The leak of a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn nearly 50 years of abortion rights in the United States is an extraordinary breach of the normally jealously guarded secrecy of the nation’s top judicial institution. As the fallout from the bombshell leak to the media reverberated in Washington, attention turned to the identity and motivation of the leaker with both the left and the right casting blame. Supreme Court opinions are tightly held until they are formally announced with just a small circle of law clerks and permanent court staff having access to the cl…