• The leak this summer set off massive outrage about the integrity of the court and resulted in an internal investigation.
• The results of the investigation have yet to be released.
• In a daisy-chain of connections typical of Washington, a reverend at the time of the 2014 high court ruling on a birth control case – formally known as Holly Lobby v. Sebelius – said he learned of the outcome from a wealthy donor who was allegedly told by the wife of Justice Samuel Alito, who presumably told her, in a New York Times story published Sunday.
• The allegation that the Wrights were told the outcome of the decision in the Hobby Lobby case, or the authorship of the opinion of the Court, by me or my wife is completely false,” Alito said in response.

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