Leaked abortion draft made us ‘targets of assassination’, Samuel Alito says

US supreme court justice, who wrote Dobbs ruling that overturned Roe, denies claims he was responsible for leak in draft form

Samuel Alito said the decision he wrote removing the federal right to abortion made him and other US supreme court justices targets of assassination" but denied claims he was responsible for its leak in draft form.

Those of us who were thought to be in the majority, thought to have approved my draft opinion, were really targets of assassination," Alito told the Wall Street Journal in an interview published on Friday.