Political Quotes

“I yield the floor. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Supreme Court of the United States, the Legal Office, Washington, DC, November 28, 2022. Hon. Sheldon Whitehouse, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC. Hon. Henry C. Johnson, House of Representatives, Washington, DC. Dear Chairman Whitehouse and Chairman Johnson: I am writing in response to your letter dated November 20, 2022. Justice Alito has said that neither he nor Mrs. Alito told the Wrights about the outcome of the decision in the Hobby Lobby case, or about the authorship of the opinion of the Court. Gail Wright has denied Mr. Schenck's allegation in multiple interviews, saying the account given by Mr. Schenck was ``patently not true.'' (Don Wright is deceased.) Justice and Mrs. Alito became acquainted with the Wrights some years ago because of their support for the Supreme Court Historical Society, and they had a casual and purely social relationship. The Justice never detected any effort on the part of the Wrights to obtain confidential information or to influence anything he did in either an official or private capacity. Mr. Schenck's allegation that Justice Alito or Mrs. Alito gave the Wrights advance word about the outcome in Hobby Lobby or the authorship of the Court's opinion is also uncorroborated.…”