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They will hold a hearing on Dec. 8 investigating the lobbying campaign that led to allegations that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the outcome of a 2014 decision.
Planned Parenthood, Demand Justice and other groups said allegations surrounding Justice Samuel Alito “pose serious ethical concerns” for the court.
The court acted as defense counsel in response to threats of congressional inquiries into its ethical lapses.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and Rep. Hank Johnson ordered the chief justice to name someone who can testify on the court’s ethics scandals.
This comes after a New York Times report that Justice Samuel Alito leaked his 2014 Hobby Lobby decision to wealthy evangelicals.
News of the alleged leak eight years ago comes as the high court still claims to be investigating who leaked its anti-abortion decision earlier this year.
The conservative justice said those who seemed to be in the court's anti-abortion majority became "targets for assassination."
Alito joked that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson "paid the price" for speaking out against the majority opinion that demolished U.S. abortion rights.
Thomas called the leak "tremendously bad" for the court and "kind of an infidelity."
The justice who authored the leaked document striking down abortion rights reportedly said it was “a subject I told myself I wasn’t going to talk about today."