The U.S. Supreme Court's top legal adviser is defending Justice Samuel Alito after top Democrats on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees had publicly raised concerns about Alito's alleged ethics lapses, which Alito strongly denied.
November 28, 2022, 7:02 PMAssociate Justice Samuel Alito poses during a group photo of the Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021.The U.S. Supreme Court's top legal adviser on Monday defended Justice Samuel Alito after top Democrats on the Senate and House Judiciary Committees"There is nothing to suggest Justice Alito's actions violated ethics standards," the court's counsel, Ethan V. Torrey, wrote in a letter to Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.
The lawmakers had demanded answers from the court after a former anti-abortion activist, Rev. Rob Schenck, that he had received advance word on a 2014 opinion authored by Alito from a wealthy couple who had dined with the justice and his wife.MORE: How did the Supreme Court become so polarized? He said he relayed this account to Chief Justice John Roberts in a letter after the court opened an investigation into the bombshell leak of a draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, in which five of the court's conservative justices decided to end the constitutional right to abortion.
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