Retired Justice Stephen Breyer reflected on the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, saying that despite his dissent from the majority, he maintained a “hope” for compromise.

Breyer, who has since been succeeded by President Joe Biden‘s nominee Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, was asked by NBC News’s Meet the Press whether the justices had discussed a compromise to limit abortion access at 15 weeks instead of the decision the high court ultimately made to allow states to impose laws severely restricting such procedures.

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