including this bizarre speech in rome, where he attacked foreign leaders for criticizing him, half jokingly suggesting that former uk prime minister boris johnson resigned because he spoke out against the ruling. we are now learning that trip, the rome trip, was paid for by the university of notre dame law school s religious liberty initiative, which has filed amicus briefs before the court as part of a larger conservative ideological project around religious liberties and jurisprudence. we don t actually know if alito disclosed that trip because he got an extension to file his disclosures. if he does end up disclosing the trip, it may very well be because the public learned about it first. leah litman, co-host of the strict scrutiny podcast, along with alyssa murray and she joins me now. i want to start on this trip because it s interesting to me. i don t think this is the same category as this weird extravagant salmon fishing on a private jet with one of the richest guys in the c