Leonard Leo says efforts to ‘delegitimize’ Supreme Court through media attacks are meant to undermine rulings

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EXCLUSIVE -- Conservative activist Leonard Leo says Democrats and liberal media outlets working to "delegitimize the Supreme Court" are simply attempting to undermine its rulings.

"The effort to delegitimize the Supreme Court has now been going on for, probably three or four years, and I think it really reached a peak right after the Dobbs case was decided, and in the run-up to it," Leo told Fox News Digital.

"Democrats in the Senate knew full well that when a number of these conservative justices were appointed, and confirmed, that they were going to render decisions in big cases like abortion, religious freedom, the Second Amendment, they were going to render decisions in those cases that hard-left billionaire donors and advocacy groups on their side didn't like," Leo continued. "And ultimately, they lost those confirmations. The left groups that they’re in bed with have lost a lot of these cases."

In 2022, the Supreme Court famously overturned Roe v. Wade, effectively ending recognition of a constitutional right to abortion and giving individual states the power to allow, limit, or ban the practice altogether. The ruling, which came in the court's opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, put a target on the Supreme Court, and it has since been attacked on a regular basis by Democrats and their allies in the media.

LEONARD LEO WARNS