On July 22, Justice Samuel Alito delivered a speech at a religious liberty event in Rome in which he mocked foreign leaders who had criticized the Supreme Court’s recent ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. At one point, Alito joked that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson had been voted out of leadership because he had dared to criticize the Supreme Court’s decision. He also criticized Prince Harry and called out “foreign leaders who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law.”
Like his equally controversial November 2020 address to the Federalist Society, in which he declared his position on a then-pending Supreme Court case, Alito’s Rome speech was met with a barrage of criticisms pointing out the impropriety of judges making divisive public remarks. Criticisms of Alito also echoed The Washington Post’s censure of the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in 2016 for publicly chastising then-candidate Donald Trump.
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