#Alito was captured on tape at a June 3 event hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society. The recording was…by #LaurenWindsor, the liberal documentary maker…. Windsor’s colleague, Ally Sammarco, attended as well, & spoke w/Alito….

The questioner approached Alito w/flattery, calling him an “American hero,” & engaged the justice in a discussion of #media scrutiny of #SCOTUS: “Why do you think the Supreme Court is being so attacked & being so targeted by the media these days?”

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#Alito answered: “They don’t like our decisions, & they don’t like how they anticipate we may decide some cases that are coming up. That’s the beginning of the end of it.” But Alito didn’t stop there. He volunteered: “There are groups that are very well-funded by ideological groups that have spearheaded these attacks. That’s what it is.”

Asked to elaborate, Alito got specific. “#ProPublica,” he said. “ProPublica gets a lot of money, & they have spent a fortune investigating #ClarenceThomas….

“You know, everything he’s ever done in his entire life.” #Alito then pulled his own experience into the conversation. “And they’ve done some of that to me, too,” he said. “They look for any little thing they can find, & they try to make something out of it.”

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