In an attempt to discredit the Supreme Court, an undercover leftist activist, Lauren Windsor, secretly recorded a conversation between herself and Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at a private event.
Windsor posed as a conservative and, at one point, claimed to be a devout Catholic. She asked Alito pointed and leading questions conversationally while at a dinner hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society. The dinner, however, was meant to have no media presence.
Windsor’s intention was to get unsolicited answers from Alito that would bolster an argument that has been circulating in the leftist media about Alito’s so-called “extremism.”
Unfortunately, the leftist media did not get the inflammatory remarks they were looking for because Alito is not a right-wing extremist and understands his role as a constitutional interpreter.
In the audio, Windsor remarked that to restore the country, Christians need to keep fighting “to return our country to a place of godliness.”
“I agree with you, I agree with you,” Alito responded.
Alito also agreed with Windsor when she claimed that negotiations between Republicans and Democrats do not seem possible. Alito’s response was that “one side or the other is going to win.”
Throughout the entirety of the audio, Windsor can be heard coaxing out Alito’s personal opinions without his knowledge, but she failed to provide evidence of Alito’s extremism. And that’s because Alito’s personal opinions, which are informed by faith, do not discredit his ability to interpret a constitutional violation within a Supreme Court case.
And yet that’s exactly what Windsor and the leftist media would like the public to believe. They hope that by portraying Alito as biased, they can discredit the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as a whole and undermine the rulings that challenge the Left’s agenda.
But unlike so much of the rest of politics, the Supreme Court has made it clear it will not submit to the groupthink of either side of the political aisle. Alito has his personal beliefs and opinions just as the court’s Democratic-appointed justices have theirs, and neither undermines the justices’ responsibility to interpret the Constitution.
This was a failed attempt to catch Alito as a right-wing extremist and merely showcases that those with principled beliefs have nothing to hide.
