James GleickJun 11, 2024

“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:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/resilience-part-2-or-thoughts-on-sam-alitos-dgaf-justicehood/sharetoken/Y8snIS0q4CvM

Resilience Part 2 (or Thoughts on Sam Alito’s DGAF Justicehood)

I think a lot about resilience. It's actually an underlying concern that forms a lot of my political opinions. Not about policy, though perhaps that too in some way, but politics in the sense of…

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@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.

Jun 12, 2024 at 10:48amWeb