Secret recording reveals Alito agreeing that US should return to ‘a place of godliness’ – live

Secret recording reveals Alito agreeing that US should return to ‘a place of godliness’ – live

US supreme court justice heard on recording saying ‘one side or the other is going to win’, referring to political left and right

In an interview with Rolling Stone, filmmaker Lauren Windsor said she recorded the conversations with justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts because “the supreme court is shrouded in secrecy, and they’re refusing to submit to any accountability in the face of overwhelming evidence of serious ethics breaches, I think that it’s justified to take these types of measures.”

She went on to say that she wanted to give the public a “window into a body that is increasingly powerful and increasingly willing to overturn precedent, adding:

One of the main drivers for me in this work is showing Americans that we are at a crossroads: Do we embrace the idea of secular democracy and uphold that tradition, or do we start to transition into a Christian theocracy?

I don’t know that we live in a Christian nation. I know a lot of Jewish and Muslim friends who would say: Maybe not. It’s not our job to do that. It’s our job to decide the cases as best we can.

Would you want me to be in charge of putting the nation on a more moral path? That’s for people we elect. That’s not for lawyers.

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