US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito denied being involved in a leak regarding a 2014 case of contraceptives and religious rights.

Rev. Rob Schenck said, according to the New York Times, that he got to know the decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby weeks before it was announced by the court. The revelation came after Gayle Wright, a donor to the evangelical nonprofit organization he was running called Faith and Action, and her husband had dinner with Justice Alito and his wife, Martha-Ann Alito.

Alito authored the opinion in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby.

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Who is Samuel Alito?

Samuel Alito was born in Trenton, New Jersey. He is the son of Samuel A. Alito Sr., an Italian immigrant, and Rose Fradusco, an Italian-American.

Alito attended Steinert High School where he graduated in 1968 as the class valedictorian, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs in 1972.

At Princeton, Alito chaired a student conference in 1971 called “The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society.”

After graduating from law school, Alito clerked for Third Circuit appeals judge Leonard I. Garth in Newark, New Jersey in 1976 and 1977. Between 1977 and 1981, Alito was Assistant United States Attorney, District of New Jersey.

He was nominated by President George W. Bush on October 31, 2005, and has served since January 31, 2006. He is the second Italian American justice to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court—after Antonin Scalia—and the eleventh Catholic.

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In 2013, Alito was considered “one of the most conservative justices on the Court.”

Alito’s majority opinions in landmark cases include McDonald v. Chicago, Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, Murphy v. NCAA, Janus v. AFSCME, and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.