Justice Samuel Alito heard in new audio slamming media for reporting on Supreme Court ethics

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito can be heard in new audio slamming the news outlet ProPublica for covering the ethics of the highest court in the nation.

Alito claimed that the reporting was motivated by politics, saying, “They don’t like our decisions.”

The audio, provided to Rolling Stone by liberal documentary maker Lauren Windsor, caught Alito speaking on June 3 at a Supreme Court Historical Society event.

A questioner on the audio asked Alito why he thinks the Supreme Court “is being so attacked and being so targeted by the media these days?”

“They don’t like our decisions, and they don’t like how they anticipate we may decide some cases that are coming up. That’s the beginning of the end of it,” he said. “There are groups that are very well-funded by ideological groups that have spearheaded these attacks. That’s what it is.”

When asked to say more, Alito said “ProPublica gets a lot of money, and they have spent a fortune investigating Clarence Thomas, for example. You know, everything he’s ever done in his entire life.”

“And they’ve done some of that to me, too. They look for any little thing they can find, and they try to make something out of it,” he added.

ProPublica won a Pulitzer Prize this year for its reporting on the court and the gifts and travel opportunities afforded to the justices by a number of billionaires.

“ProPublica exposes abuses of power no matter which party is in charge and our newsroom operates with fierce independence,” a spokesperson for the outlet told The Independent. “No donors are made aware of stories before they are published, nor do they have a say as to which stories reporters pursue. More than 55,000 donors of every stripe actively fund our investigative, nonpartisan