Calls to investigate Sam Alito leak accusations after report of right-wing influence over SCOTUS

Advocates for court reform on Saturday called for Congress to investigate allegations that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaked a 2014 ruling to a right-wing donor, after The New York Times reported on the claim by a former leader of the pro-forced pregnancy movement. Rev. Ron Schenck led an evangelical Christian nonprofit organization in 2014 when … Read more

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito assured Kennedy on abortion rights

Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) boards an elevator after walking off the floor of the U.S. Senate after a roll call vote to achieve cloture on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the US Supreme Court passed 72 to 25 January 30, 2006 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Supreme Court Justice Samuel … Read more

Supreme deceit: How Sam Alito snuck medieval state Christianity into the Dobbs opinion

The Supreme Court’s June decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned the half-century-old precedent of Roe v. Wade, occasioned worldwide rage, enough that Justice Samuel Alito — author of the majority opinion in Dobbs — mocked the outraged Prince Harry and other luminaries. Jewish advocacy groups, among others, have filed suits argued … Read more

“Embarrassment to the Supreme Court”: Alito gloats and taunts critics of his anti-abortion ruling

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked world leaders who criticized his anti-abortion ruling last month and decried what he called a “hostility to religion” in his first public comments since the decision. Alito, who authored the court’s majority opinion in the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade, bragged during a surprise appearance at a … Read more