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Martin Pengelly in New York

Leaked abortion draft made us ‘targets of assassination’, Samuel Alito says

Abortion rights protesters outside US supreme court
Samuel Alito’s draft ruling was leaked to Politico on 2 May last year, to uproar and protest nationwide. The final ruling was issued on 24 June. Photograph: Yana Paskova/Reuters

Samuel Alito said the decision he wrote removing the federal right to abortion made him and other US supreme court justices “targets of assassination” but denied claims he was responsible for its leak in draft form.

“Those of us who were thought to be in the majority, thought to have approved my draft opinion, were really targets of assassination,” Alito told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Friday.

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