The secret recordings of Alito and Roberts will likely backfire [Video]

Rolling Stone reported Monday that a documentary filmmaker posing as a Catholic conservative created secret audio recordings of conversations with Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Samuel Alito at an exclusive charity gala.

Some critics questioned the ethics of Lauren Windsor’s surreptitious recording, while others underscored how Alito’s comments starkly contrasted with Chief Justice Roberts’ responses to the undercover provocations.

But the recordings, which come as the Supreme Court has been wracked by ongoing scandals and plummeting public trust, may not result in any newfound transparency and could create the opposite: an even more secretive high court, one legal scholar told Business Insider.

What the secret recordings captured

The New York Times on Monday appeared to confirm the veracity of the recordings, in which Alito — who recently came under fire over an upside-down American flagseen outside his home in 2021 — seemed to endorse the idea that the US should return to being …