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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]To call this story uncorroborated is to overstate its credibility.[/b] Rob Schenck, a pastor who has since turned against his former evangelical allies, claims he heard from a woman who heard from Justice Alito at a dinner party in 2014 about the pending opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, a religious liberty case. Justice Alito denies leaking anything, and the woman denies hearing about it.

But this summer, after the Dobbs abortion decision, Mr. Schenck decided that what he claims to have learned in advance of the Hobby Lobby decision should be shared with the world. He wrote to Chief Justice John Roberts with concern about the gossip. When the Chief didn’t respond to Mr. Schenck’s satisfaction, he turned to the media, and then Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse piled on.

Mr. Whitehouse is famous for his tenacious digging into Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s high-school yearbook. He and Georgia Rep. Hank Johnson have written to the Chief demanding that the Court investigate this alleged ethical breach or they will do it.

[b]This is another case of political intimidation in the service of undermining public confidence in the Court. The accusation is second-hand hearsay from a politically motivated source.[/b] The woman and her late husband did attend a dinner party at the home of Justice Alito and his wife after donating money to the Supreme Court Historical Society. But that’s the extent of any corroboration.

[b]The real reason Democrats are upset is because they’ve lost the Court as a backstop legislature for policies they can’t get through Congress.[/b]

https://www.wsj.com/articles/targeting-justice-samuel-alito-rob-schenck-supreme-court-hobby-lobby-sheldon-whitehouse-11669154588[/quote]

You lose credibility any time you cite an opinion piece. The WSJ's news division is respectable, but it's previously pro-Trump and extreme right-wing editorial slant is well-known.

Loser.[/quote]
I seem to remember after [i]someone[/i] leaked the Dobbs decision that WSJ had a bat crap crazy oped about how that would never happen and we should all focus on the leak because the leaker was the worst person in America. [/quote]

We'll wait while you link to this op-ed.  In the meantime, the Dobbs leaker *is* a terrible person.  And there are zero indications that person is Alito.  Braying about how it "must be so" does not, in fact, make it so.   :roll: [/quote]

[b]There are plenty of indications that Alito was involved in the leak.[/b] He’s the most likely to think that sharing insider information with right-wing interested parties and lobbyists is ok for right-wingers. [/quote]

No, there are not "plenty of indications."  There is one dinner involving a woman who completely denies the claim that the pastor made.  You're welcome to feverishly speculate and hypothesize - as long as you understand there is zero proof of what you assert.[/quote]

You will not get through to people here. Everything to them is sensationalistic, and essentially a made-for-TV movie or series. If you think back over time at all the threads that died due to the truth coming out, and all the people they worshipped who ended up in jail, it’s pretty clear that facing the truth is hard stuff. It took the media, what, two YEARS to admit there might be truth to a piece of technical equipment?

People here are all hat and no cattle. It’s all emotion, no fact.[/quote]
How long do you think an internal investigation should take?[/quote]

DP.  How long did the internal investigation of the Border Patrol agents and the alleged "whipping" take?  [/quote]

Crickets.[/quote]

Irrelevant. [/quote]

:lol: 
Not at all.  PP was complaining that the internal investigation is taking too long; but we heard zip from the administration for months and months while the BP was being "investigated" for doing nothing wrong.  I guess you'll just have to wait, like the rest of us did.[/quote]
This investigation isn’t being done by the administration. That’s why it’s irrelevant.[/quote]

Whooooosh…
You can split hairs all you want but the point remains the same.  Deal with it.
DP[/quote]

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