A lawyer for the Supreme Court said that there is no evidence that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the outcome of a major Supreme Court case involving contraceptives ahead of the 2014 ruling.
A lawyer for the Supreme Court said on Monday that there is no evidence that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the ruling of a major Supreme Court case regarding contraceptives in 2014.
that surfaced in a New York Times report earlier this month in which a former anti-abortion leader, Rev. Rob Schenck, claimed that he was tipped off about the ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby weeks before it was publicly announced. Alito authored both the Hobby Lobby opinion — which found for-profit companies have the right to deny contraceptive coverage to employees due to religious objections — and the June 24 opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, which wasIn a statement to the New York Times, Alito said that he and his wife had a “casual and purely social relationship” with conservative donors Gayle and Donald Wright, who are alleged to have learned of the decision in Burwell v.
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