For criticism of the abortion verdict: US constitutional judge mocks Boris Johnson and Prince Harry

In June, conservative US Supreme Court justices overturned the country's abortion law.

For criticism of the abortion verdict: US constitutional judge mocks Boris Johnson and Prince Harry

In June, conservative US Supreme Court justices overturned the country's abortion law. They are led by Samuel Alito, who apparently finds foreign criticism of the decision annoying. Above all, Prince Harry's criticism seems to have hurt him.

In May, the United States was shocked by a draft abortion ruling: In it, Samuel Alito, one of nine US Supreme Court justices, leading his conservative colleagues, argues why women do not have a general right to an abortion. A good month later, the verdict of the Supreme Court is official, the Supreme Court overturns a liberal regulation from 1973. The criticism is enormous, not only in the USA but also abroad.

However, Alito has no understanding for this. In his first public appearance since the landmark judgment, the 72-year-old mocked prominent critics from abroad.

"I had the great honor of formulating what is probably the only Supreme Court ruling that has been crushed by a whole series of foreign heads of state and government," said the judge in a speech he gave at a conference of the Catholic private university, according to the Guardian Notre Dame stopped. "They found it perfectly acceptable to comment on American law."

One of them was the outgoing British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, says Alito. "But he paid the price for it," jokes the conservative judge in front of the laughing and applauding audience. "But not everyone has lost their job," says Alito, mentioning French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Johnson called the verdict a "huge step backwards". Macron and Trudeau called the decision "terrible".

But Prince Harry's comment hit him particularly hard, Alito then explains in a serious voice. In a speech at the United Nations, the Duke of Sussex compared the verdict to the Russian attack on Ukraine.

Prince Harry gave a speech at the UN General Assembly in New York on July 18 in memory of South African President and freedom fighter Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013. In it, the British royal spoke of seeing "a global attack on democracy and freedom". He cited the war in Ukraine and the abolition of constitutional rights in the United States as examples.