Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito MOCKS Prince Harry to laughter

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito MOCKS Prince Harry for attacking decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and comparing it to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and blasts other foreign leaders

  • Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s remarks were his first public comments since he authored the decision to overturn Roe v Wade
  • Alito, one of the court’s six conservative justices, made the remarks at an event hosted by the University of Notre Dame Law School in Rome last week
  • His shot at Prince Harry came after the former Duke of Sussex rebuked the supreme court decision during a speech at the United Nations last week
  • Alito called out French President Emmanuel Macron by name in his speech, but he reserved an extra quip for British Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked Prince Harry to torrents of laughter during his first public remarks since the decision to overturn Roe v Wade.

‘What really wounded me, what really wounded me,’ the justice said, ‘Was when the Duke of Sussex addressed the United Nations and seemed to compare the decision, whose name may not be spoken, with the Russian attack on Ukraine.’

Alito, who authored last month’s ruling, also mocked foreign world leaders who have decried the Supreme Court decision and implied they should keep their noses out of America’s law books.

‘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. 

Alito made his comments at a July 21 conference on religious liberty in Rome hosted by the University of Notre Dame Law School. Notre Dame posted a video of the online on Thursday.

His shot at Prince Harry came after the former Duke of Sussex rebuked the Supreme Court decision as well as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during a speech at the UN in New York City on July 18.

The Duke of Sussex’s spoke to the general assembly of the UN on July 18 for Nelson Mandela Day, where Harry waded into US politics while describing a ‘global assault on democracy and freedom.’


Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked Prince Harry to torrents of laughter during his first public remarks since the decision to overturn Roe v Wade

Alito also joked that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, pictured on July 28, torpedoed his political career by speaking out against the end of Roe. Johnson will step down later this year after being sunk by a series of scandals 

He added: ‘And from the horrific war in Ukraine to the rolling back of constitutional right in the US we are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom, the cores of Mandela’s life.’

The comment was a clear dig at the decision to overturn Roe, which guaranteed women across the US the right to abortion.   

‘This has been a painful year in a painful decade. We are living through a pandemic that continues to ravage communities in every corner of the globe,’ Harry said.

‘Climate change wreaking havoc on our planet with most vulnerable suffering most of all. The few weaponizing lies and disinformation at the expense of the many.’

Numerous prominent world leaders have also expressed dismay at the overturning of Roe v Wade, including British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. 

Alito called out President Macron by name in his speech, but he reserved an extra quip for Prime Minister Johnson.

‘One of these was former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, but he paid the price,’ Alito joked, referring to Johnson’s plans to step down following criticism of his leadership from within Britain’s ruling Conservative Party.

Aside from those references to Roe’s foreign critics, Alito skirted the topic and focused instead on the conference’s theme of religious liberty.

‘Religious liberty is under attack in many places because it is dangerous to those who want to hold complete power,’ he said. ‘It also probably grows out of something dark and deep in the human DNA – a tendency to distrust and dislike people who are not like ourselves.’

Alito called out President Macron by name in his speech, but he reserved an extra quip for Prime Minister Johnson

Alito, a Roman Catholic who has been characterized as one of the Supreme Court’s most conservative justices, said religion faced the challenge of convincing people ‘that religious liberty is worth defending if they don’t think that religion is a good thing that deserves protection.’

The conservative justice was nominated to the court by President George W. Bush in 2005. He began his service in 2006.

‘This has been a painful year in a painful decade,’ Harry began in his address to the UN on July 18.

‘We’re living through a pandemic that continues to ravage communities in every corner of the globe.

‘Climate change wreaking havoc on our planet, with the most vulnerable suffering most of all.

‘The few, weaponizing lies and disinformation at the expense of the many.’

Alito has been characterized as one of the Supreme Court’s most conservative judges

Alito authored the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v Wade. Above, demonstrators protest the ruling

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Harry quoted statistics from freedom house showing the world had grown less free for more than a decade and a half. 

It is not the first time the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have waded into American politics, finding themselves in hot water after commenting on the US election.

During a Time 100 video in September 2020 they called on American voters to ‘reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity’ in ‘the most important election of our life.’

Markle told activist Gloria Steinem in June she is willing to go to Washington DC to join protests against the abortion ruling and urged people to vote in the November midterms.

In an interview with Vogue, Meghan also urged men to be ‘more vocal’ with their anger at the repealing of Roe v Wade.

Members of the royal family are supposed to be politically neutral, when they stepped back from their roles the Sussex’s vowed that ‘everything they do will uphold the values of Her Majesty’.

But Meghan and Harry recently hired Miranda Barbot, a former aide to former president Barack Obama who was central to his successful reelection campaign in 2012.

The couple spectacularly quit the royal family in January 2020, a seismic event for the British monarchy that some comedians dubbed ‘Megxit’

Meghan’s political ambitions have long been talked about since she and Harry emigrated from Britain including claims that she would ‘seriously consider’ running for president if her husband dropped his royal title.

Two years ago, a friend of the Duchess told Vanity Fair magazine that one of the reasons she did not give up her American citizenship when she married into the Royal Family was to allow her to keep open the option of entering politics.

President Biden’s sister, Valerie, 76, recently invited the duchess to join the Democratic Party and said she would ‘of course’ make a good presidential candidate.

‘I think that she does see her future as possibly a congresswoman for California,’ said Tom Bower, the author of a new book on Meghan and Harry, in an interview with Daily Mail Royals.

He added: ‘Her problem is twofold. One is that it is very badly paid, and Meghan needs a lot of money to live, the second is that you’ve got to be pretty tough in a political fight. You are up against a lot of competitors.’

He also revealed Meghan had become a close mentor to former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who allegedly arranged philanthropic ventures for the couple. 

The couple spectacularly quit the royal family in January 2020, a seismic event for the British monarchy that some comedians dubbed ‘Megxit’.

They now live in a $13million mansion in Montecito, California, after striking deals worth tens of millions to produce content for Netflix and Spotify.

A Netflix documentary about the Sussexes is set to be broadcast later this year, while a tell-all autobiography by Harry is due this fall.

The couple are parents to a three year-old son called Archie and an 13 month-old daughter called Lilibet. 

Harry and Meghan’s forays into US politics 

2020 – During a September video shot for Time 100 before the presidential election, Harry and Meghan called on American voters to ‘reject hate speech, misinformation and online negativity’ in ‘the most important election of our life,’ which was viewed as a not-so-veiled rebuke of President Donald Trump.

Critics of the formerly-royal couple’s comments included none other than her majesty’s family, who noted the Sussexes vowed that ‘everything they do will uphold the values of Her Majesty’ – values that are supposed to include not picking sides in political matters. Buckingham Palace was forced to distance itself from Harry’s remarks by saying that ‘the Duke is not a working member of the royal family’ and describing his comments as ‘made in a personal capacity’. 

A Source close to the Sussexes also noted Meghan was keen to keep her American citizenship after she became a royal in case she ever wanted to go into US politics. The source told Vanity Fair’s Katie Nicholl that Meghan ‘would seriously consider running for president’ after she gave up her royal title.

2021 – Meghan is revealed to have been calling Republican senators on their personal phones and using her former royal title to urge them to vote in favor of a paid paternal leave legislation. 

 ‘This is Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex,’ Markle reportedly said to West Virginia senator Moore Capito. She also did the same with Senator Susan Collins of Maine. 

‘Much to my surprise, she called me on my private line and introduced herself as the Duchess of Sussex, which is kind of ironic’ said Collins.  ‘I was happy to talk with her, but I’m more interested in what people from Maine are telling me about paid leave,’ she told Politico.

She also submitted a 1,030 word letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in which she made made a plea for the parental legislation. The letter was written on Duchess of Sussex letterhead. In the letter, the former duchess wrote that the US’s economic systems were ‘past their expiration date’ and ‘too many Americans are forced to shortchange themselves when it comes to what matters to them.’

2022 – In May, Markle chartered a private jet to travel 1,400 miles to Texas where she laid a bouquet of white ‘peace’ roses at a memorial to the 19 children and two teachers slain at Robb Elementary School by murderous maniac Salvador Ramos. She also made a surprise visit to a blood center with two crates of food and drinks for donors, volunteers revealed, as one admitted: ‘I had no idea who she was’ and another confused her with a neighbor.

Though cameras and news crews surrounded the memorial on Thursday, Markle did not make any remarks to the press. Then in an interview with Vogue following the overturning of Roe v Wade, Meghan also urged men to be ‘more vocal’ with their anger at the repealing of Roe v Wade and said that Prince Harry’s response to the Supreme Court’s decision last Friday was ‘guttural.’

‘My husband and I talked about that a lot over the past few days. He’s a feminist too,’ she said, adding ‘We have to channel that fear into action. We can start this November in the midterms. We have to vote, every time.’

Markle said she was willing to travel to Washington DC to join in on pro choice marches. Conservative Georgia congressman Rep.

Buddy Carter chimed in on Markle’s comments, saying ‘I think Americans made it pretty clear in 1776 that they don’t want members of the British Royal Family making decisions for them.’ In earlier in the spring, the Sussexes hired Miranda Barbot, a former aide to president Barack Obama who was central to his successful reelection campaign in 2012. 

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