Samuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests.
— Marty Lederman (@martylederman.bsky.social) October 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade.
Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
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In response, Alito wrote them a letter, emphatically denying any involvement. "My wife is fond of flying flags," he wrote. "I am not."
"My wife decided to fly a flag. I wasn't even aware of what she was doing until one of our police officers informed me," Alito told me. "And I asked her to take it down. And she did eventually. But she's a very independent person. And she's a private citizen. And she has her rights."