Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said, during an interview last week, that the leak of his draft- majority opinion overturning the landmark Roe v Wade abortion case was a "grave betrayal of trust" by the leaker and made  the court's justices "targets for assassination."  "And it was a shock because nothing like that had happened in the past. So it certainly changed the atmosphere at the court for the remainder of the year."  "The leak also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority and supportive of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us," Alito added.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    On May 2, Politico published the leaked contents of a draft opinion Alito wrote for the Supreme Court's majority in favor of overturning previous Supreme Court's majority in favor of overturning previous Supreme Court abortion rulings and broadly regulating the decision-making on abortion laws back to the individual states. Within hours of the leak, protestors had gathered around the Supreme Court. Protests also began around Alito's home and the home of fellow Justice Brett Kavanaugh.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Such protests may have violated federal law. 18 U.S.C. S1507 prohibits "pickets or parades" in or near a building housing a court of the United States, or in or near a building or residence occupied by a judge, juror, witness, or court officer "with the intent of interfering with, obstructing, or impeding the administration of justice, or with the intent of influencing" any of those individuals. An individual was arrested early on the morning of June 8 near Judge Kavanaugh's home and was charged with attempted murder after telling police he "came from California to kill a specific United States Supreme Court Justice."                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Following the leak, Chief Justice John Roberts said, "This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here, I have directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak."