{"id":28371,"date":"2023-04-28T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/supreme-courts-alito-says\/"},"modified":"2023-04-28T20:52:27","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T20:52:27","slug":"supreme-courts-alito-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/supreme-courts-alito-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court&#8217;s Alito says abortion leak meant to intimidate court -WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kruzel<\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211;     U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito believes the leak last May of a draft opinion that ended the nationwide right to abortion was meant to &#8220;intimidate&#8221; the court into changing its decision, the conservative justice told the Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a part of an effort to prevent the Dobbs draft &#8230; from becoming the decision of the court,&#8221; Alito said in an interview published by the newspaper on Friday, referring to the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization. &#8220;And that\u2019s how it was used for those six weeks by people on the outside \u2014 as part of the campaign to try to intimidate the court.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments by the justice, part of the court&#8217;s 6-3 conservative majority, come after the court in January said its eight-month investigation had failed to identify the party responsible for disclosing a draft that would foreshadow the court&#8217;s decision in June eliminating the right to legalized abortion nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Alito, who wrote the Dobbs decision, said that he thought he knew who leaked the decision to the Politico news outlet, but did not provide evidence to support that claim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I personally have a pretty good idea who is responsible, but that&#8217;s different from the level of proof that is needed to name somebody,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>A narrow majority of Americans &#8211; 56% &#8211; view the U.S. Supreme Court unfavorably, according to a Reuters\/Ipsos poll this month. Partisanship colors that view, with 72% of Democratic respondents to the poll viewing the court unfavorably and 65% viewing of Republicans seeing it favorably.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by John Kruzel; Editing by Scott Malone and Jonathan Oatis)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/supreme-courts-alito-says\/protestors-react-outside-the-u-s-supreme-court-after-the-leak\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0Z9-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0Z9-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito believes the leak last May of a draft opinion that ended the nationwide right to abortion was meant to &#8220;intimidate&#8221; the court into changing its decision, the conservative justice told the Wall Street Journal. &#8220;It was a part of an effort to prevent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":28372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-domestic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3R0Z9-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28373,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28371\/revisions\/28373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}