‘Caught On Tape!’ CNN Anchor Stunned By ‘Bombshell Secret Tapes’ Of Alito And Wife Taken Outside Supreme Court

Tommy ChristopherJun 11th, 2024, 2:01 pm
 

CNN anchor John Berman was visibly stunned by the secret tapes recorded by Lauren Windsor that feature Justice Samuel Alito, his wife Martha-Ann Alito, and Chief Justice John Roberts at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner.

Justice Alito has been under fire over the flying of a “Stop the Steal” flag following the January 6 attack on the Capitol. But Alito blamed the display on his wife, and has rebuffed demands that he recuse himself from January 6 cases over the flap.

Windsor dropped a raft of secret recordings this week that were taken as she posed as a social conservative. The recordings feature Alito making provocative statements, his wife complaining about Pride flags, and Roberts refusing to take the bait when Windsor tried to lead the conversation toward the U.S. being a “Christian nation.”

On Tuesday’s edition of CNN News Central, Berman excitedly teased the story, then dove in with CNN Senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic:

JOHN BERMAN: Caught on tape! Always provocative words. Even more so when it is a Supreme Court justice and his wife and she talked about flags.

On a secret recording to Justice Samuel Alito, appeared to endorse a call to return our country to a place of godliness.

A liberal activist and filmmaker presented herself as a religious conservative and secretly recorded it, secretly recorded the justice and his wife at a Supreme Court Historical Society dinner.

The recording comes in the wake of the controversial flags being flown at Alito properties. And this is what Martha Alito had to say about that.

MARTHA ALITO: I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag, because I have to look across the lagoon at the pride flag for the next month.

LAUREN WINDSOR: Exactly!

MARTHA-ANN ALITO: And he’s like, oh, please don’t put up a flag. I said, I won’t do it because I’m deferring to you. But when you are free of this nonsense, I’m putting it up and I’m going to send the message every day.

JOHN BERMAN: Now CNN has not obtained the full form of these recordings. We have also reached out to the Supreme Court for comment.

CNN senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic is with us. Martha Alito talking about flags on tape.

JOAN BISKUPIC: Yes, John, good to see you. And Martha Ann’s comments certainly were provocative, given the controversy over the flags that had flown at the Alito home that appeared connected to the January 6th rioters in the Stop the Steal movement.

But I want to focus on Justice Alito and what he said at this event, and also how much it echoes where Justice Alito has been on religion.

Justice Alito, who has acted as if religion is under siege. He’s he’s said that in public comments before, he said that in his written opinions.

And, John, let’s take a listen now to what Justice Alito said, this woman as she was surreptitiously recording him at the event last week.

SAMUEL ALITO: One side or the other is going to win. There can be a, I think a way of working, a way of living together peacefully. But it’s different, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. They really can’t be compromised.

So it’s not like we’re going to split the difference.

JOAN BISKUPIC: Yeah. John. So, you know, again, just a little context on Justice Alito. Remember, he was the one who authored the Dobbs ruling two years ago that reversed all constitutional rights to abortion.

He has been very outspoken against, any kind of protection for LGBTQ rights. He’s been against gay marriage.

He has been very strong on issues that have a lot of, as I said, religious themes. So that’s, that’s the context here.

And then after, after he wrote the Dobbs opinion, he even said in a speech at Rome that religious liberty is under attack from from people everywhere and especially people in power.

Which is somewhat ironic since he is in power. But he he did not, respond to any of our requests for comment last night, but the Supreme Court Historical Society did. And let me just read what Jim Duff, who, is head of the historical society, said.

“We condemn the surreptitious recording of justices at the event, which is inconsistent with the entire spirit of the evening. Attendees are advised that discussion of current cases cases decided by current sitting justices or justices jurisprudence is strictly prohibited and may result in forfeiture of membership in the society.”.

But for us, John, for those of us who live in America under the rulings of the Supreme Court, what’s important here is to know that this month, the justices are about to issue rulings in so many important opinions, and we will need to, we want to see how Justice Alito’s attitudes emerge in those rulings that will now set the law of the land.

Windsor posted the recordings on X/Twitter, which were featured in an accompanying article for Rolling Stone:

Watch above via CNN News Central.

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