Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito
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The political campaign against the Supreme Court continues, relentlessly, and the latest example is a claim that eight years ago Justice
Samuel Alito
leaked word ahead of time about a Supreme Court ruling. We’d ignore this except that Democrats and the anti-Court media are treating it like a capital offense.
To call this story uncorroborated is to overstate its credibility.
Rob Schenck,
a pastor who has since turned against his former evangelical allies, claims he heard from a woman who heard from Justice Alito at a dinner party in 2014 about the pending opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a religious liberty case. Justice Alito denies leaking anything, and the woman denies hearing about it.
But this summer, after the Dobbs abortion decision, Mr. Schenck decided that what he claims to have learned in advance of the Hobby Lobby decision should be shared with the world. He wrote to Chief Justice
John Roberts
with concern about the gossip. When the Chief didn’t respond to Mr. Schenck’s satisfaction, he turned to the media, and then Democratic Sen.
Sheldon Whitehouse
piled on.
Mr. Whitehouse is famous for his tenacious digging into Justice
Brett Kavanaugh’s
high-school yearbook. He and Georgia Rep.
Hank Johnson
have written to the Chief demanding that the Court investigate this alleged ethical breach or they will do it.
This is another case of political intimidation in the service of undermining public confidence in the Court. The accusation is second-hand hearsay from a politically motivated source. The woman and her late husband did attend a dinner party at the home of Justice Alito and his wife after donating money to the Supreme Court Historical Society. But that’s the extent…
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