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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Ed Pilkington in New York

Alito says leak of draft abortion ruling put justices at risk of assassination

Justice Samuel Alito also said that to claim the court had acted illegitimately ‘crosses an important line’ – a remark clearly directly at the liberal justice Elena Kagan.
Justice Samuel Alito also said that to claim the court had acted illegitimately ‘crosses an important line’ – a remark clearly directly at Justice Elena Kagan. Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock

The leak of the draft supreme court opinion abolishing the right to abortion put members of the conservative majority at risk of assassination, Samuel Alito, the author of the draft, has said.

Speaking in Washington at a rightwing thinktank, the Heritage Foundation, Alito called the leak a month before the final ruling was released “a grave betrayal of trust by somebody” that put several justices in danger.

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