Samuel Alito slams ProPublica as ‘misleading’ ahead of report alleging conflict of interest from SCOTUS bench [Video]

Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito took a preemptive strike against the left-wing nonprofit ProPublica over what he asserts is “misleading” reporting it is set to publish.

According to an editor’s note attached to an op-ed he penned in The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Alito received a series of questions from ProPublica journalists on Friday, giving him a deadline that lapsed earlier in the day. 

“ProPublica has leveled two charges against me: first, that I should have recused in matters in which an entity connected with Paul Singer was a party and, second, that I was obligated to list certain items as gifts on my 2008 Financial Disclose Report. Neither charge is valid,” Alito began the op-ed. 

Alito first addressed the recusal inquiry, insisting it “would not have been required or appropriate” despite any alleged ties to the businessman and GOP mega donor. He described his relationship with Singer as having spoken to him …