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 the Supreme Court seven miles away. He was asked whether he was doing all right during these “challenging times,” according to the Washington Post.
“This is a subject I told myself I wasn’t going to talk about today regarding, you know—given all the circumstances,” Alito said. “The court right now, we had our conference this morning, we’re doing our work. We’re taking new cases. We’re headed toward the end of the term, which is always a frenetic time as we get our opinions out.”
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