“The thing with Sam Alito is that he doesn’t give a fuck. He is a seventy-something Fox News watcher and religious fundamentalist who happens to find himself in a position of immense and almost incomparable power over all of American society and he’s going to take that power to the limit to advance his own political preferences. He’s not even going to go through the motions of pretending that’s not the case.”
Josh Marshall understands Alito all too well. Gift link:
"We need to get our game faces on, realize where we are, identify the paths to eliminating the corruption, be running against this corruption in every election, making the case about the Court’s corruption and realizing it will take some time to get things back to where they need to be. Let’s do it.”
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It's Clear to me that lifetime appointments to Supreme Court is the third biggest flaw in the US Constitution.
Biggest being slavery was initially allowed, second biggest flaw being the electoral college.
@SocialJusticeHeals @JamesGleick Senate is worse than the Electoral College, imo
EC only devalues my presidential vote. Senate devalues my political representation
California has ~40 million people by itself and only 2 senators
21 states have ~40 million people total and get 42 senators
That is obscene
He is activated to implement the insanity that is "Project 2025".
Chess pieces, man. It's nuts.
Alito spelled out his wish list when he overturned Roe. Marriage, contraception, parental decisions on education, refusal of forced sterilization… it’s all there in black and white:
@JamesGleick we really need to push back on this idea that Supreme Court justices have such power.
They don’t.
The system was specifically designed to ensure that they would not receive such authority, declining to give executive privileges to the unelected justices.
The perspective that you’re quoting falls apart against that reality, as Alito has not found himself in such a powerful position.
Instead, he writes opinions.
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