In Secret Recordings, Alito Endorses Nation of ‘Godliness.’ Roberts Talks of Pluralism.
Justice Samuel Alito told a woman posing as a Catholic conservative last week that compromise in America between the left and right might be impossible and then agreed with the view that the nation should return to a place of godliness.
The justice’s comments appeared to be in marked contrast to those of Chief Justice John Roberts, who was also secretly recorded at the same event but who pushed back against the woman’s assertion that the court had an obligation to lead the country on a more “moral path.”
NYT.com