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Justice Alito Defends Decisions to Not Disclose Fishing Trip, Not Recuse on Supreme Court Related Case

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wrote a piece in Wall Street Journal on Tuesday defending his decisions not to disclose a paid Alaska trip in 2008 and not to recuse on a Court case in 2014, related to the person who paid for the transportation. Alito’s article came hours before the publication of a news…


NYT Reports the Hobby Lobby Decision Was Leaked in 2014 and Points the Finger at Justice Samuel Alito

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied being involved in an alleged leak eight years ago of a religious-freedom decision that held family-owned businesses did not have to provide birth control benefits to employees, after a New York Times article on Nov. 19 first reported the leak and alleged Alito may have been involved in it….


Supreme Court Justice Alito Accused of Leaking Opinion, Strongly Denies It

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied being involved in an alleged leak eight years ago of a religious-freedom decision that held family-owned businesses did not have to provide birth control benefits to employees, after a New York Times article on Nov. 19 first reported the leak and alleged Alito may have been involved in it….


Justice Alito Strongly Denies Accusation of Leaking 2014 Opinion

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied being involved in an alleged leak of a religious-freedom decision eight years ago, after a New York Times article on Nov. 19 first reported the leak and alleged that Alito may have been involved in it. The media report comes as the Supreme Court continues to investigate the unprecedented…


Justice Samuel Alito Receives Standing Ovation for Overturning Abortion Ruling

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito received a standing ovation from a hall full of lawyers at a black-tie dinner on Nov. 10 for authoring the landmark legal decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 1973 high court ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. The court ruled 5–4 in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June…


Justice Alito: Leak of Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Made Conservative Justices ‘Targets for Assassination’

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said the leak earlier this year of a draft opinion reversing Roe v. Wade made conservative justices “targets for assassination” and changed the atmosphere at the court. Alito’s comments came during a moderated conversation at the Heritage Foundation in the nation’s capital on Oct. 25. At the end of the…


Justice Alito Reveals Little About Supreme Court Leak Fallout

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito remained tightlipped about the court’s Roe v. Wade leak in a public address on May 12 even as pro-abortion demonstrators held protests across the country over the potential strike-down of the 1973 judgment. Alito was speaking to a crowd at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University, remotely from…


Canada Open to Americans Seeking Abortions: Minister of Families

Following the leak of a Supreme Court draft opinion indicating the court’s intention to overturn Roe v. Wade, Canada’s minister for families, children, and social development has said that her country welcomes Americans who wish to cross the border for abortions. “I don’t see why we would not,” Minister Karina Gould told CBC News. “If…


‘Egregious Breach’ of Trust: Supreme Court Marshal to Investigate Leak of Draft Roe V. Wade Opinion

U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts has directed the marshal of the Supreme Court to launch an investigation to determine the source of the leak of its draft opinion on its pending Roe v. Wade case to Politico. In a statement on May 3, the nation’s top court confirmed the majority draft opinion was authentic but…


Justice Alito Says ‘Not Surprised’ by Reaction to His Comments About Pandemic Restrictions

Associate Justice Samuel Alito said on Sunday that he was “not surprised” by the reaction to comments he made last year about state restrictions in response to the CCP virus pandemic. Alito, 70, told a Federalist Society virtual convention last November that he thought the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic serves as a “sort of…