{"id":2264282,"date":"2024-06-10T17:25:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alito-and-roberts-secretly-recorded-in-latest-attempt-to-undermine-supreme-court\/"},"modified":"2024-06-10T17:29:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T21:29:58","slug":"alito-and-roberts-secretly-recorded-in-latest-attempt-to-undermine-supreme-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alito-and-roberts-secretly-recorded-in-latest-attempt-to-undermine-supreme-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Alito and Roberts covertly taped in new bid to weaken Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Falito-and-roberts-secretly-recorded-in-latest-attempt-to-undermine-supreme-court%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2264282&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A\u2062 summary of the article\u2064 would cover the actions and responses surrounding a\u200d liberal activist\u2019s \u2064undercover operations at a Supreme Court event. The activist, Lauren Windsor, \u2064posed as \u2063a conservative,\u200b recording informal discussions with Justices Samuel Alito and John\u200d Roberts at the Supreme Court Historical Society\u2019s \u2064annual dinner. Windsor, known for\u2063 her work with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stanford-medical-professor-on-desantis-covid-success-because-hes-very-well-informed-better-than-most-epidemiologists\/\" title=\"Stanford Medical Professor On DeSantis: COVID Success Because He\u2019s \u2018Very Well Informed,\u2019 Better Than \u2018Most Epidemiologists\u2019\">left-leaning media<\/a>, elicited\u200b comments from Justice\u200b Alito on the ongoing polarization in politics, to which Alito expressed skepticism about the \u2062potential for compromise between political factions, highlighting that fundamental differences might\u2063 be irreconcilable. Chief Justice Roberts, however, focused more on \u2064distancing\u200b his role and that of the court\u2064 from \u200cpolitical biases, emphasizing the judiciary&#8217;s role in resolving cases without\u2064 partisan \u2064influence.<\/p>\n<p>The publication of these recordings did\u2064 not incite significant backlash, with legal experts \u200basserting that the remarks did not demonstrate\u200b a lack of impartiality but \u200cwere within the scope \u200bof typical judicial \u200ddiscourse. Additionally, the fact that Windsor took these recordings undercover\u200c sparked \u2062criticism from some quarters regarding ethics and propriety, particularly within the formal \u200bsetting of a Supreme Court Historical Society event.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A liberal activist who posed as a Christian conservative to record <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Supreme Court<\/a> Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/samuel-alito\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Samuel Alito<\/a> and Chief Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/john-roberts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>John Roberts<\/a> is the latest shot in a left-wing fight to undermine the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hollywood-celebs-rage-in-defeat-after-barrett-confirmation-revolting-disgraceful-unconscionable\/\" title=\"Hollywood Celebs Rage in Defeat After Barrett Confirmation: 'Revolting. Disgraceful. Unconscionable'\">high court<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal activist Lauren Windsor attended the Supreme Court Historical Society\u2019s annual dinner on June 3 and secretly recorded her conversations with both Alito and Roberts. Windsor\u2019s recording comes as various activists and media outlets have hounded Alito in recent weeks over two separate instances involving flags flown at his homes: one instance in which an inverted flag flew at his primary residence and a separate instance in which an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/supreme-court\/3021366\/the-left-comes-for-alito-recusal-calls-are-a-coordinated-campaign-against-supreme-court-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>\u201cAppeal to Heaven\u201d<\/a> flag was flown outside another one of his homes. Democrats have used the instances to demand Alito recuse himself from key decisions.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito gestures while speaking at Georgetown University Law Center\u2019s third annual Dean\u2019s Lecture to the Graduation Class in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (AP Photo\/Cliff Owen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the recordings, Alito can be heard responding to a prompt by Windsor, who has a background in liberal activism.<\/p>\n<p>  \u201cI don\u2019t know that we can negotiate with the Left in the way that needs to happen for the polarization to end,\u201d Windsor said during the conversation. \u201cI think that it\u2019s a matter of, like, winning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you\u2019re probably right,\u201d Alito said. \u201cOn one side or the other \u2014 one side or the other is going to win. I don\u2019t know. I mean, there can be a way of working, a way of\u00a0living\u00a0together peacefully, but it\u2019s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can\u2019t be compromised. They really can\u2019t be compromised. So it\u2019s not like you are going to split the difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>EXCLUSIVE UNDERCOVER AUDIO: <br \/>Sam Alito x John Roberts x The Undercurrent \ud83e\uddf5<\/p>\n<p>1\/ Justice Alito admits lack of impartiality with the Left, says: \u201cOne side or the other is going to win.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b5nmxToZ9z\">pic.twitter.com\/b5nmxToZ9z<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Lauren Windsor (@lawindsor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lawindsor\/status\/1800201783945683120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Alito responded to her by saying, \u201cI agree with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Roberts, however, offered a different response to Windsor, pushing back on the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Chief Justice John Roberts poses for a portrait in Washington, D.C., Oct. 7, 2022. Federal courts moved Tuesday, March 12, 2024, to make it harder to file lawsuits in front of judges seen as friendly to a point of view, a practice known as judge shopping, that gained national attention in a major abortion medication case. The practice\u2019s use in patent cases was highlighted by Roberts in his 2021 report on the federal judiciary. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chief justice told her, \u201cIt\u2019s not our job to do that. It\u2019s our job to decide the cases the best we can,\u201d according to her recording.<\/p>\n<p>Roberts also pushed back as Windsor suggested that the Supreme Court was in particularly tumultuous times. Roberts suggested that the civil rights era of the 1960s or the Vietnam War era were probably more unprecedented, but he acknowledged that the court was quieter in the mid-2000s era of his career.<\/p>\n<p>A source familiar with the Supreme Court Historical Society\u2019s policy said it is \u201cabhorrent\u201d that Windsor took secret recordings while in attendance of its annual dinner. The group\u2019s events have faced criticism in the past over the chance afforded to donors who pay to attend them to meet some justices in person.<\/p>\n<p>Windsor is the founder of the <em>Undercurrent<\/em>, a spinoff field reporting project with ties to the left-leaning <em>Young Turks <\/em>online news network, which was founded by left-wing political commentator Cenk Uygur. Windsor\u2019s article was first published in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legacy-media-largely-ignore-damning-report-about-ny-nursing-home-deaths\/\" title=\"Legacy Media Largely Ignore Damning Report About NY Nursing Home Deaths\">major news<\/a> to drop tomorrow, and I don\u2019t say that lightly,\u201d Windsor posted to X on Sunday. \u201cIt\u2019s likely the biggest undercover story yet of my career.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the story didn\u2019t spur an immediate backlash. In fact, several legal experts responded rather quickly that the off-the-record comments by the justices didn\u2019t express any \u201clack of impartiality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see anything here that suggests a lack of impartiality,\u201d Cassandra Robertson, a professor at Case Western Reserve University, posted on X.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<blockquote data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I don&#8217;t see anything here that suggests a lack of impartiality. I don&#8217;t often agree with Justice Alito&#8217;s opinions, but everything he says here seems pretty unexceptional. Pretty sure he would say (and has said) the same things publicly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7tUXYhlTkE\">https:\/\/t.co\/7tUXYhlTkE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cassandra Robertson (@AndraRobertson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AndraRobertson\/status\/1800212539449671840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t often agree with Justice Alito\u2019s opinions, but everything he says here seems pretty unexceptional. Pretty sure he would say (and has said) the same things publicly,\u201d Robertson continued.<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Kreis, a law professor at Georgia State University, also pushed back on notions that Alito violated impartiality rules, saying, \u201cI don\u2019t think this is much of anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlito, cranky as usual, blames the media and says he wishes everyone could get along except for fundamental values, which he\u2019s naturally going to see from a right<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/education-group-reveres-black-panther-party-in-new-lesson-plan\/\" title=\"Education Group Reveres Black Panther Party In New Lesson Plan\">-wing perspective<\/a>. It\u2019s like an oral summary of his Obergefell dissent,\u201d Kreis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AnthonyMKreis\/status\/1800208828644130829\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>wrote<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for this year\u2019s dinner cost $500 per person, <a href=\"https:\/\/supremecourthistory.org\/supreme-court-historical-society-events\/annual-dinner-2024-commemorating-50-years-of-the-supreme-court-historical-society\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>according<\/a> to the group\u2019s webpage. The historical society is described as a nonprofit organization \u201cdedicated to preserving and collecting the history of the U.S. Supreme Court,\u201d according to its \u201cMission\u201d page.<\/p>\n<p>The latest undercover jab at Alito comes as Senate Democrats, led by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), recently called on Roberts to sit down for a private meeting over their efforts to convince Alito to recuse from pivotal Supreme Court cases.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI must respectfully decline your request for a meeting,\u201d Roberts wrote in a letter on May 30 to Durbin and Whitehouse, citing the checks and balances among the three coequal branches of government.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>reached out to a representative for the Supreme Court Historical Society and Windsor for comment.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A liberal activist, posing as a Christian conservative, secretly recorded Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts at a dinner. 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