Senate Judiciary Committee chair to review 'serious allegations' of 2014 Supreme Court leak

Justice Alito and a donor at the center of the allegations both deny any involvement in the claims.

Former anti-abortion leader the Rev. Rob Schenck told the NYT that Gayle Wright, a donor to the evangelical organization he then ran, informed him of the decision.

However, Wright "denied obtaining or passing along any such information," the NYT reports.Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Hank Johnson , who chair courts subcommittees, joined Durbin in urging fellow Congress members to pass legislation requiring a code of ethics for Supreme Court justices,

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