Alito faces pushback from other Supreme Court justices, insiders reveal as leaks mount for high court

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito lost his opportunity to write two majority opinions this term after being unable to convince justices to join his side, a new report detailing contentious relationships inside the court claims.

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Ketanji Brown Jackson reportedly flipped on Alito in Moody v. NetChoice LLC, a case about content moderation on social media, after reading his draft opinion. A similar incident reportedly occurred weeks later when Alito won the majority in a case about an alleged retaliatory arrest in Texas and then lost it because he went too far in his opinion.

When that decision was announced at the Supreme Court bench, Alito was missing.

Thereport by CNN seemingly affirms what many have speculated to be a combative term for the justices as they decided major cases about presidential immunity, emergency abortion rights and administrative power.

Justices’ frustrations with one another seemed tangible in various dissenting and concurring opinions in different cases.

Combined with the negative public attention the court received for Alito’s wife flying an upside-down flag outside of their home – a symbol associated with January 6 rioters – tensions seem to be at an all-time high.

According to the report, Barrett and Jackson initially signaled they would join Alito, Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch to create the majority opinion in the NetChoice case.

Typically, once justices discuss and then vote on a case decision, the most senior justice on either side of the argument will assign another to write the majority and dissent.

But after Alito sent around his draft opinion, in which he questioned if any content moderation on social media platforms is protected under the First