Justice Alito gets the facts wrong (opens in new tab)

Justice Samuel Alito wrote the conservative majority’s opinions in two of the most consequential Supreme Court decisions in recent years: 1) Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization—overruling Roe v. Wade; and 2) Louisiana v. Callais—neutering the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In both cases, Alito recited and relied on asserted “facts” that did not exist.Alito Rewrote History to Ban AbortionOhio State University Prof. Treva Lindsey observed, “From the nation’s founding through the early 1800...