In the saga of the leaked Supreme Court draft judgment that repeals abortion rights, there is an unspoken major character: the whistleblower. Someone leaked the document to the media in which conservative Justice Samuel Alito authored an opinion to reverse Roe V. Wade, the landmark 1973 abortion judgement.
This is considered to be the first leak of its kind to crack the façade of the Supreme Court. As ABC News reported, "Currently, the leaker has not been identified and the motive remains unknown," with arguments being both made for the whistleblower potentially having conservative reasons — to lock the judges into their radical reversal — or liberal: to sound the alarm.
Some people still view whistleblowers as traitors, betraying institutions or groups.
We seem to be at a time when popular fiction glorifies tricksters, fraudsters who pretend to be something or someone they're not in order to achieve personal gain or fame. From Anna Sorokin to "The Tinder Swindler" to Elizabeth Holmes, we love to hate those who refuse to follow the rules. But whistleblowers, those who break or bend the law for the greater good? We seem to forget them.
Perhaps it's not as daring as fraud or perhaps whistleblowers would prefer to remain anonymous for their own safety, taking the risks they do usually (but not always) for altruistic reasons. Some people still view whistleblowers as traitors, betraying institutions or groups.
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