types, interests, age, station in life and so forth and try our best to be matchmakers. try to pair up couples where we thought there was a good prospect for a meaningful friendship to develop. and this particular couple really had an innate capacity for understanding human behavior, what bothered those justice couples they interacts with. what their needs were and they responded to those needs. that couple he s talking about here is donald and gayle wright. through his scheme the wrights became close friends with justice alito and his wife. when donald wright died, his family post these pictures. and then there is that particular one with justice alito inside alito s chambers. the wrights and alitos were
dobbs decision. people believe that the court is highly politicized. they believe that the dobbs decision was not a function of law but rather a function of the changed personnel on this court that we went in one year from being a 5-4 conservative majority to a 6-3 super majority. he knows that. he could not have been happy about this. whether he can actually take steps to do something, whether he can police this conservative super majority that he is the head of, that is a different story entirely. we have seen him basically hobbled in the face of these five justices who seem bent on doing what they like and not what the justice wants. and when you talk about justices bent on doing what they like, the impunity with which justice alito appears to have been operating not only this purported leak of the 2014 hobby lobby decision, but potentially the dobbs leak. i think everybody thinks if there is someone that leaked this thing, it was probably justice alito at this point. do you concu
and if the first leak was a tributable to justice aleet yo, alito, i understand why they think he is associated with this. the leak is not the problem. this is a justice that said to the wall street journal that merely questioning the supreme court s legitimacy crosses a line. but praying in your chambers with people who have real business before the court does not cross a line. that takes incredible cheek to look the people of the united states in the face and say you can t question this court and you can t question what we do even though what we re doing crosses so many lines. and when you hear the reporting about what happened in the 2014 hobby lobby decision, we know what happened with dobbs, do you feel there are other decisions the court has made that should be revisited to see if anything untoward was happening behind the scenes? again this campaign of influence, i think, puts a question mark over everything. everything has an asterisk. who is lobbying the court? we don
introduced through the historical society, a nonprofit organization used as a vehicle to gain access to the supreme court. he gave his stealth missionaries instruction, they were more likely to let their guard down at the historical society annual dinners because they assumed they were properly vetted. this is it a well planned strategy to gain access to the most powerful people in america. he understood that pressuring politicians could cause them to get kicked out of office. but supreme court justices, they have lifetime tenure. and man was this strategy effective. he says that when the wrights wam so close to justice alito, they learned in advance about the court s decision in a case. the suggestion here is that justice alito who authored that