Samuel Alito

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Listen To This: Sam, His Fish and His Billionaire

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss Samuel Alito’s pricey fishing trip, the looming specter of a third-party candidate in 2024 and the newest antics of rogue House Republicans.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

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Kennedy’s Diary: Alito Privately Insisted He Respected Roe
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Where Things Stand: Alito’s Roe Opinion Was Filled With Language Pushed By Evangelical Group
This is your TPM evening briefing.

A former leader of a religious right activist group recently admitted on a podcast that the language that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito used in his damning majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade mirrored rhetoric the Christian group has been pushing on Supreme Court justices for decades.

Rev. Rob Schenck recently appeared on an episode of the State of Belief podcast to discuss his efforts as a former member of the group Faith and Action to, essentially, sway justices’ views on social issues through prayer sessions. The interview is from earlier this month, but Politico surfaced it here. It’s worth a listen if you want to get a better understanding of how these unofficial evangelical lobbying-via-prayer efforts work, but it reinforces a theme we covered earlier this summer when an official at the evangelical organization, Liberty Counsel, was caught on a hot mic bragging about secretly praying with Supreme Court justices.

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