Who knows more about the Constitution than a Supreme Court justice? Well, everyone from French President Emmanuel Macron to Prince Harry, apparently.
Those are just two of the foreign leaders (if, of course, you consider the fatuous Prince Harry a leader of anything, including his own household) who decried the Supreme Court’s last month decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, is sick of it. In a speech last week, according to Reuters, he took aim at “a whole string of foreign leaders” who felt the need to interfere in American constitutional matters.
The unannounced speech — given to a University of Notre Dame Law School religious liberty conference held in Rome — was first reported on Thursday.
As Reuters noted, the speech marked Alito’s “first public remarks since the decision.”
During the speech, it reported, the justice “dismissed criticism of the ruling, which has come from the likes of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.”
“I had the honor this term of writing I think the only Supreme Court decision in the history of that institution that has been lambasted by a whole string of foreign leaders who felt perfectly fine commenting on American law,” Alito said during his remarks.
Alito, Notre Dame, Rome. Catholic bias much?