When Alito applied for a senior job at the DOJ in 1985, he wrote in his cover letter that as a “life-long registered Republican,” he was “particularly proud” to have worked on cases arguing “that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.”
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 6, 2022
I've posited that the triggering event for the leak of the Alito draft might have been the circulation of a draft dissent eviscerating Alito's reasoning. What might that have looked like?
— Harry Litman (@harrylitman) May 7, 2022
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