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Justice Alito’s Still Complaining About the Abortion Decision Leak.
He says it made them targets.
If right wingers are good at anything, it’s complaining. At this point, supposed alpha males like Donald Trump maintaining his relevance through his relentless whining about the 2020 election has become virtually all that they have to offer outside of the usual culture war narratives. Well all things considered, it’s not exactly surprising that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito is still wagging his finger and lamenting the leak of their decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade.
Ann E. Marimow with The Washington Post writes:
“Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. said Tuesday that the leak of his draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade made his colleagues in the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court “targets for assassination.”
The leak last spring before the court eliminated the nationwide right to abortion was a “grave betrayal of trust by somebody, and it was a shock,” he said. The threat to the justices, he added, was not theoretical because it “gave people a rational reason to think they could prevent that from happening by killing one of us.”
He noted that a man has been charged in an alleged attempt to kill Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, who was in the majority to overturn Roe. The California man…
