Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito said this week that the leaking of a draft decision to overturn Roe v. Wade put the lives of him and his fellow justices at risk.
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“It was a grave betrayal of trust by somebody,” Alito said at a public interview with the Heritage Foundation on Tuesday, according to The New York Times. “It was a shock, because nothing like that had happened in the past. It certainly changed the atmosphere at the court for the remainder of last term.”
He went on to say, “The leak also made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.”
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Alito also hit out at those who question the court’s legitimacy following the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“Everybody in this country is free to disagree with our decisions,” he said. “Everybody is free to criticize our reasoning, and in strong terms. And that certainly is done in the media, in writings of law professors and on social media.”
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“But to say the court is exhibiting lack of integrity is something quite different,” he added. “That goes to character.”
Alito said: “Someone also crosses an important line when they say that the court is acting in a way that is illegitimate. I don’t think that anybody in a position of authority should make that claim lightly. That is not just ordinary criticism. That is something very different.” Read more at Newsmax.
“The leak made those of us who were thought to be in the majority in support of overruling Roe and Casey targets for assassination because it gave people a rationale reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.” – Justice Alito on the Dobbs leak pic.twitter.com/ItibtNlDsE
— JCN (@judicialnetwork) October 26, 2022
Eat shit, Alito https://t.co/oDhGf6tvdw
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 26, 2022
Alito said the abortion draft leak made justices “targets.”
— Duty To Warn 🔉 (@duty2warn) October 26, 2022
No, stripping half the country of civil rights they’ve enjoyed for half a century, after you lied and said you wouldn’t, is what made you a target, Sammy.
You’re not the victim here.
I love justice Alito taking away the rights of millions of people and then complaining that he didn’t get to announce it himself
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) October 26, 2022
JFC can this guy be any more annoying?
— Lindy Li (@lindyli) October 26, 2022
Sam Alito—who destroyed our reproductive rights—said the leak of his draft overturning Roe made him & his ChristoFascist colleagues “targets for assassination”
Gimme a break
The only ones getting killed are the women & girls you betrayed