A new audio recording reveals Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito bashing ProPublica, a nonprofit news organization, for its coverage of him and other justices receiving undisclosed gifts from billionaires who have had cases before the court. According to the conservative justice, the outlet is not engaged in legitimate journalism about public officials but going after the court because "they don't like our decisions."
The recording was made by liberal documentary maker Lauren Windsor, who attended a $500 dinner hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society on June 3. Posing as a religious conservative, she secretly recorded Alito making several dubious remarks in conversation with her; earlier in the week, she shared another recording from the same event in which Alito suggests that compromise with the left is not possible and that the era of political polarization can only end with one side "winning."
