argentina. alito did not recuse himself from the case, and voted with the 71 majority in singer s favor. the hedge fund was ultimately paid 2. 4 billion dollars. justice alito refused to answer propublica s questions, email to him on friday. and instead, published a piece in the wall street journal late last night before the propublica report was published to try to defend himself against the damning revelations he knew would be in the article. he insisted that there was no way he could possibly know that his billionaire front was litigant before the supreme court, because the billionaire s name was hidden in a maze of corporate entities involving the litigation. which is one very good reason why supreme court justices should just never hang with billionaires. because, billionaires own a lot of things and they own a lot of corporate entities, and corporate entities are the main thing, the main thing that ends up in litigation in the united states supreme court. joining us now is senat
covered by the legal press and mainstream media. in 2014, the court agreed to resolve a key issue in a decade long battle between singers hedge funds and the nation of argentina. alito did not recuse himself from the case, and voted with the 71 majority in singer s favor. the hedge fund was ultimately paid 2.4 billion dollars. justice alito refused to answer propublica s questions, email to him on friday. and instead, published a piece in the wall street journal late last night before the propublica report was published to try to defend himself against the damning revelations he knew would be in the article. he insisted that there was no way he could possibly know that his billionaire front was litigant before the supreme court, because the billionaire s name was hidden in a maze of corporate entities involving the litigation. which is one very good reason why supreme court justices should just never hang with
there s clarence thomas who propublica exposed. justice neil gorsuch sold property to the head of a law firm who had business before the court and didn t disclose the buyer s identity. when propublica reached out to alito, he declined. instead he sent it to the wall street journal which in a journalistically confounding move ran it as a rebuttal op ed the day before the propublica report was published. in it he claimed he wasn t aware paul singer was involved despite the cases heavily covered and saying they spoke on no more than a handful of cases and never talked about any issue before the court, comments which i suppose were meant to take him