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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Arpan Rai

Who is Samuel Alito? Supreme Court justice who reportedly wrote draft decision to overturn Roe v Wade

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An initial draft majority opinion purportedly written by Justice Samuel Alito and circulated inside the court suggests that the Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973Roe v Wade ruling which abolished abortions nationwide.

“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Alito wrote in the document obtained by Politico, labelled as the “Opinion of the Court”.

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