Judge Samuel Alito told The Wall Street Journal in an interview published Friday:[s] All the nonsense written about him last year.
ProPublica published Alito claimed in June that he violated federal law by failing to disclose that he traveled with billionaire Paul Singer on a private jet for a 2008 fishing trip. Alito anticipates it in an op-ed for the WSJ. Alito: “I have to protect myself” Said The WSJ on Friday said at one point “no one else” thought so.
ProPublica also runs multiple articles alleging that Judge Clarence Thomas violated ethics rules, some of whose top donors are left-wing groups campaigning for Judge Thomas to resign or be investigated. A review of tax documents by the Daily Caller News Foundation revealed that they did. Additionally, the DCNF’s review of Federal Election Commission (FEC) records found that the majority of ethics experts cited in articles about Thomas and Alito donated to Democratic campaigns and left-wing activism. (Related: “Destroy Your Own Story”: See What ProPublica Filled in the 73rd Paragraph of Alito’s Justice Article)
Alito told the WSJ that political backlash would be fended off by others, particularly “organized bars.” “[T]The traditional idea of how judges and magistrates should behave is that they should be silent,” he told the media.
WASHINGTON DC – OCTOBER 7: U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito poses for an official portrait in the East Conference Room of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, DC on October 7, 2022. The Supreme Court began a new term in September after Associate Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was formally added to the jury. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) In paragraph 73 of the ProPublica article on Judge Samuel Alito, a federal judge who went on a trip with Alito previously said that he had been on a similar fishing trip in 2005. It is said to have sought advice from the Office of Financial Disclosures, a law enforcement agency. According to a memo kept by the judge at the time, the Financial Disclosures Office will disclose trips the judge took with the late Justice Antonin Scalia and conservative donor Robin Arkley, as well as private jet travel. said no need.
“But that’s not what happened,” Alito told the WSJ. “So at some point I said to myself, I have to protect myself because no one is going to do this.”
Alito also told the WSJ on Friday that he wondered if people would consider rebelling against their decisions on what would happen if the Supreme Court were “deemed to be illegal.” rice field.
“If we are deemed illegal, it will become more acceptable and more common to ignore our decisions,” he told the WSJ. “That’s how we can revive the massive resistance that took place in the south after the war.” [Brown v. Board of Education]”
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