Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito took a preemptive strike against the left-wing nonprofit ProPublica over what he asserts is “misleading” reporting it is set to publish.
According to an editor’s note attached to an op-ed he penned in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Alito received a series of questions from ProPublica journalists on Friday, giving him a deadline that lapsed earlier in the day.
Alito first addressed the recusal inquiry, insisting it “would not have been required or appropriate” despite any alleged ties to the businessman and GOP mega donor. He described his relationship with Singer as having spoken to him “no more than a handful of occasions” which mostly “consisted of brief and casual comments at events attended by large groups” (with the exception of a “fishing trip 15 years ago”) that avoided conversation about his businesses as well as any pending court cases. He also acknowledged the “two occasions” he was introduced by Singer at speaking engagements and the time he invited the justice to fill an “unoccupied seat on a private flight to Alaska.”