Newly released audio recordings of Justice Samuel Alito appear to capture him speaking candidly about the limits of the investigation the Supreme Court conducted into the leak of his draft majority opinion in the 2022 case that ended the federal constitutional right to abortion. And in a separate recording, the justice’s wife, Martha-Ann Alito, said she was unfazed by a recent controversy over flag displays at the couple’s homes in suburban Virginia and on the New Jersey shore. Liberal activist and documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor and .
In the exchanges, Windsor posed as a conservative hostile to abortion rights and supportive of the Alitos. She also expressed outrage at of the court’s forthcoming opinion in and lamented the court’s failure to publicly identify anyone responsible. “It’s hard,” Alito told Windsor during an exchange at a Supreme Court Historical Society event in June 2023.
“You know, you can’t name somebody unless you know for sure, and we don’t have the power to do the things that would be necessary to try to figure out, nail down exactly [who did it]. And even then we might not be able to do it. We don’t have the power to subpoena people to testify, to subpoena records, phone records or other things like that.
We don’t have that authority.” The day following POLITICO’s report on the draft opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts and ordered an investigation, which was conducted by the court’s marshal, Gail Curley. In January 2023,.
