Samuel Alito Cancels Appearance At Judicial Conference After Roe Draft Leaks
Huff PostLOADING ERROR LOADING Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito canceled an appearance at an upcoming judicial conference, two days after a draft decision he authored overturning landmark abortion protections in Roe v. Wade leaked to Politico. Alito is the justice assigned to hear emergency Supreme Court appeals from the 5th Circuit. Alito, a member of the court’s six-justice conservative bloc, authored the draft majority opinion overturning the 1973 Roe decision, calling it “egregiously wrong from the start.” Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in 2019. via Associated Press “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled … It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives,” the draft reads. The fact that the draft opinion leaked at all is shocking, and it’s extremely rare to get an insight into the court’s thinking before an opinion is published.