Alito Blasts Journalists' Investigation Of Supreme Court Ethics In New Audio

"They look for any little thing they can find, and they try to make something out of it," the Supreme Court justice said of ProPublica.

Newly released audio reveals that conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito disparaged ProPublica’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of ethical issues on the court as trying to “make something out” of “any little thing they can find.”

The recording was captured by Ally Sammarco, a colleague of liberal documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor, at a June 3 event hosted by the Supreme Court Historical Society. Windsor initially provided the audio to Rolling Stone and later shared it on social media Tuesday.

In the audio, Sammarco approaches Alito, flatters him as an “American hero,” and asks him what he thinks of the “undeserved” media criticism he’s faced.

Alito begins with a relatively tepid response, saying, “They don’t like our decisions, and they don’t like how they anticipate we may decide some cases that are coming up. That’s the beginning of the end of it.”

Then he elaborates.