Samuel Alito took a private jet to Alaska for a luxury trip with a conservative billionaire.
that “no event, meeting, dinner, or trip would influence [Alito’s] approach to the rule of law,” and suggested that ProPublica’s reporting was “bait for reeling in more dark money from woke billionaires who want to damage this Supreme Court and remake it into one that will disregard the law by rubber stamping their disordered and highly unpopular cultural preferences.
“He allowed me to occupy what would have otherwise been an unoccupied seat on a private flight to Alaska,” Alito wrote. “It was and is my judgment that these facts would not cause a reasonable and unbiased person to doubt my ability to decide the matters in question impartially.” But even if you take Alito’s word for it that there’s nothing fishy about a conservative billionaire paying for vacations for him and the late Antonin Scalia, the idea that such consequential ethical decisions would be left to his own “judgment” underscores the need for the kind of reform Whitehouse and other Democrats have been pushing for.
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