NEW: Former anti-abortion activist alleges leak in 2014 Supreme Court case authored by Alito
Rev. Rob Schenck, who has shifted his opinion in favor of abortion rights in the years following the alleged leak, says he was tipped off about the outcome of the Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. case by a donor weeks in advance of the decision becoming public, according to a letter he sent to the high court in June obtained by the New York Times.
"She suggested that in their table conversation, she might be able to learn the status of the case, something she knew had an interest in knowing. I received a follow-up message from her notifying me she had indeed obtained the information during that visit," he further explained in the letter to Justice Roberts.
Plaintiffs in the case specifically rejected certain emergency contraceptives that they believed could prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb. The court ruled exactly as Wright told him three weeks later and he had used that information to prepare for the announcement during the interim, Schenck said.
"[The] allegation that the Wrights were told the outcome of the decision in the Hobby Lobby case, or the authorship of the opinion of the Court, by me or my wife, is completely false,” a spokesperson for Alito told the news outlet.
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