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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito mocked Prince Harry, Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau, and other foreigners who have taken it upon themselves to intervene in America’s abortion debate.
In a speech to Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Summit in Rome, Italy, the conservative justice quipped he “had the honour 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,” referring to the overturning of Roe v. Wade.
“One of these was former prime minister Boris Johnson — but he paid the price,” Justice Alito joked, winning applause from the crowd, in reference to the British premier’s imminent departure from office after politicians from the Conservative (Tory) Party ousted him as their leader following a series of scandals.
“Post hoc ergo proper hoc, right?”
Justice Alito also namechecked President Emmanuel Macron of France and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada as interlopers, but said that “what really wounded me” was the intervention of Meghan, Duchess of Sussex’s husband, Prince Harry.
