According to the Texas Secretary of State, 95.16% of you should not be arguing about politics on Facebook.

“Well, everybody’s been getting along so great with each other,” Politico said. “Let’s see what else we can shove in there.”

They went to work to get us to forget about our arguments about masks. Now, our nation is aflame with arguments about something which hasn’t, technically, happened.

I decided to argue about this abortion leak with the Texas Supreme Court.

Three justices held a question and answer session at the Fort Worth Club. One of them, Evan Young, had clerked for Antonin Scalia.

When I shoved my microphone in his face afterward, he talked about how they look forward to taking their show back on the road again. They used to have oral arguments at universities and other public spots around the state so people could see how the court works. They had to stop because of COVID.

His position is their job is not to legislate, but to let people know what the law says so they can decide whether to change it. The Simpsons tried to explain this to all of us years ago.

We talked about the significance of the leak to Politico, explaining that a concern now would be if a justice changes his or her mind, people might think it only happened because the draft was published. In actuality, Rebeca Huddle says justices often change their opinion as they continue researching and hearing from all sides.

In some cases, a judge writing the majority opinion might even wind up writing the dissent in the end.

Every political science professor in Texas has been interviewed by a reporter this week. One of them echoed the position that every opinion goes through several drafts.

“Have you ever had to edit your work?” he asked me.

To put us all at ease, here is an actual first draft I was working when writing a story about vaccination clinics opening in Tarrant County. I had the unmitigated gall to edit this first draft. Then a source [who will be unnamed, but it’s possible it was myself] emailed it to an associate.

Turns out, even #ScaiaBlog is not immune to leaks.