Justice Alito is accused of leaking 2014 Supreme Court landmark ruling
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Judge Alito, who slammed the Roe v. Wade leak, is ‘accused’ of leaking the landmark 2014 Supreme Court ruling on contraception and religious rights
- Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. accused of exposing landmark 2014 Supreme Court ruling on contraception and religious rights
- The case, ruled 5-4, allowed for-profit employers with religious objections to refrain from providing birth control coverage under Obamacare
- Rev. Rob Schenck, who supported the Supreme Court ruling, revealed that he and his associates received the decision after a visit to Alito’s home
- Alito, who slammed the leaks of his draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, denied the allegations
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr., who slammed the Roe v. Wade leak, was himself accused of revealing the landmark 2014 Supreme Court ruling on birth control and religious rights.
The case, ruled 5-4, allowed for-profit employers with religious objections to opt out of providing birth control coverage under Obamacare.
Rev. Rob Schenck, who supported the Supreme Court ruling, revealed that he and his associates obtained the decision before it was published after a visit to Alito’s home, the New York Times reports.
Schenck described the leak in a letter to Chief Justice John Roberts after the judge ordered an investigation into the leak of Alito’s draft opinion regarding the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which sparked protests across the country.
At a recent event at a conservative think tank, Alito said the leak of the draft opinion that overturned the constitutional right to abortion turned majority judges into “targets for assassination.”
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito Jr. (pictured) was accused of revealing the groundbreaking 2014 Supreme Court ruling regarding birth control and religious rights
In his letter to Roberts, Schenck, an evangelical leader who ran the nonprofit Faith and Action group in Washington DC, revealed that a few of his backers had dinner with Alito in June before the court announced its decision later that month.
Reports indicate that the couple Alito met were Don and Gayle Wright, an Ohio couple whom Schenck had assigned to attend dinners with conservative judges.
“She suggested that during their table conversation she might be able to learn the status of the case, something she knew she had an interest in knowing,” Schenck wrote. “I got a follow-up message from her that she indeed obtained the information during that visit.”
Through the information received, the pastor said he was able to launch a public relations campaign in support of the decision in favor of religious rights.
He also admitted to passing the leak on to Steve Green, the CEO of Hobby Lobby, the Evangelicals craft store that was at the center of the 2014 case.
In a statement through a spokesman, Alito acknowledged having dinner with the Wrights in June, but denied ever disclosing the decision.
‘[The] the claim that the Wrights were informed by me or my wife of the outcome of the decision in the Hobby Lobby case, or the authorship of the court’s opinion, is wholly false.” Alito said.
Neither Hobby Lobby nor Gayle immediately responded to DailyMail.com’s request for comment. Don passed away in 2020.
This is an evolving story.