Justice Alito Strongly Denies Accusation of Leaking 2014 Opinion

Justice Alito Strongly Denies Accusation of Leaking 2014 Opinion
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito speaks at Georgetown University in Washington on Feb. 23, 2016. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Matthew Vadum
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied being involved in an alleged leak of a religious-freedom decision eight years ago, after a New York Times article on Nov. 19 first reported the leak and alleged that Alito may have been involved in it.

The media report comes as the Supreme Court continues to investigate the unprecedented leak earlier this year of the draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which the court overturned Roe v. Wade and held that there’s no constitutional right to abortion, thereby returning the regulation of abortion to the states.