New Revelations Undermine Credibility of Alito's Efforts to Discount His Own Words and Record

Alito played key role in Reagan effort to overturn Roe, said he was ‘particularly proud’ of that work

Efforts by Judge Samuel Alito to explain away clear written statements about his legal philosophy are crumbling under the weight of ongoing revelations about his record.

A Boston Globe report today confirms that in the months before he applied for promotion to deputy assistant attorney general, Alito was actively involved in devising legal strategy in Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, a case in which the Reagan administration’s brief urged that “this Court should overrule” Roe v. Wade. A colleague from the solicitor general’s office told the Globe that Alito made a “major contribution” to the case.