‘Embarrassment to the Supreme Court’: Samuel Alito ripped for taunting critics of his anti-abortion ruling

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked world leaders who criticized his anti-abortion ruling last month and decried what he called a “hostility to religion” in his first public comments since the decision.

Alito, who authored the court’s majority opinion in the Dobbs case that overturned Roe v. Wade, bragged during a surprise appearance at a religious conference hosted by the Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Initiative in Rome last week that he wrote the opinion in what he described as the case “whose name may not be spoken.”

“I had the honor this term of writing I think the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,” he said.

“One of these was former [British] Prime Minister Boris Johnson. But he paid the price,” Alito said, referring to Johnson’s unrelated decision to resign, drawing laughs and cheers from the crowd.

“Others are still in office,” he added, calling out French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for their remarks before lobbing an attack on Prince Harry.

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