Over the past six months, dark money leftist groups have been funding and working with "journalism" outlet ProPublica to publish hit pieces on conservative Supreme Court justices. They've published a number of stories falsely accusing Justice Clarence Thomas of corruption and undisclosed conflicts of interests, including claims Thomas somehow benefitted financially after essentially adopting and raising a grand nephew.
The leftist outlet has a new target: Justice Samuel Alito, the man who wrote the draft opinion overturning Roe v. Wade and returning abortion to the states.
But Alito got ahead of the smear job with a preemptive op-ed in the Wall Street Journal.
"ProPublica misleads its readers. The publication levels false charges about Supreme Court recusal, financial disclosures and a 2008 fishing trip," Alito writes. "ProPublica has leveled two charges against me: first, that I should have recused in matters in which an entity connected with Paul Singer was a party and, second, that I was obligated to list certain items as gifts on my 2008 Financial Disclose Report. Neither charge is valid."
Alito goes on with a detailed defense of the accusations, which the leftist outlet never levels against liberal Supreme Court Justices engaged in similar personal travel.
Justice Alito demolishes a coming @propublica smear job with superb oped. These baseless smears are meant to undermine Court because it is no longer doing Left’s bidding. It won’t work. @propublica gets funding from major Lefty donors & is a cog in leftwing smear machine. https://t.co/EG642WvEnp
— Mark Paoletta (@MarkPaoletta) June 21, 2023
Important safety tip: if you make a disingenuous legal argument either in front of or against Justice Alito, you’re going to lose. Badly. https://t.co/uFW2S2pLtS
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) June 21, 2023