Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied being involved in an alleged leak of a religious-freedom decision eight years ago, after a New York Times article on Nov. 19 first reported the leak and alleged that Alito may have been involved in it.
The media report comes as the Supreme Court continues to investigate the unprecedented leak earlier this year of the draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the court overturned Roe v. Wade and held that there’s no constitutional right to abortion, thereby returning the regulation of abortion to the states.
The 5–4 opinion in Dobbs, written by Alito, was formally released by the court in June. Alito described the leak as a “grave betrayal.”…