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The left now targeting Justice Alito along with their 30+ year hate-on for Justice Thomas.
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. denied Saturday a New York Times report alleging he leaked the results of the 2014 Hobby Lobby ruling, where the court said the feds couldn’t mandate corporations cover contraception under the Affordable Care Act.
A former pro-life leader, Rev. Rob Schenck, reportedly sent a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in June and told the New York Times — which published its report detailing the allegations on Saturday — that he learned of the outcome of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores prior to its release.
He said he was tipped off by a woman named Gayle Wright, who had dinner with Justice Alito and his wife.
Mrs. Wright was a donor to a nonprofit that Mr. Schenck ran during his time working against abortion in Washington. Justice Alito quickly issued a statement denying the claim.
“The allegation that the Wrights were told the outcome of the decision in the Hobby Lobby case, or the authorship of the opinion of the Court, by me or my wife is completely false,” Justice Alito said, according to The Washington Post.
“My wife and I became acquainted with the Wrights some years ago because of their strong support for the Supreme Court Historical Society, and since then, we have had a casual and purely social relationship,” Justice Alito’s statement read. “I never detected any effort on the part of the Wrights to obtain confidential information or to influence anything that I did in either an official or private capacity, and I would have strongly objected if they had done so.”
Mrs. Wright is also reportedly denying Mr. Schenck’s allegation, The New York Times noted.
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Justice Alito denies leaking results of 2014 Hobby Lobby ruling, report
Supreme Court Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. denied Saturday a New York Times report alleging he leaked the results of the 2014 Hobby Lobby ruling, where the court said the feds couldn’t mandate corporations cover contraception under the Affordable Care Act.
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