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Opinion | Does Justice Alito Hear Himself? (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This sort of nonsense is the best reason to vote for the Democrat presidential & senatorial candidates, no matter how odious they are. Someone is going to nominate and confirm 3 or 4 Supreme Court justices in the next decade, and if we let that be the Republicans, we can look forward to a whole court full of Alitos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I stopped to shiver at the thought of 9 Alitos on the bench, but then the thought occurred to me that the current makeup of the court's conservative majority is a perfect mirror of the American right-wing coalition:

A chauvinistic sex-pest drunkard whose main guiding interest is keeping the party going for his rich fraternity bros
A brainwashed cult acolyte
A corrupt government official on the take (who's also a sex pest)
A faux-intellectual who only ever makes bad-faith arguments that support his existing prejudices
The picture you see in the encyclopedia next to the entry about MLK's "white moderate" letter
A schemer who pretends to be right down the middle of the road but is moving levers behind the scenes to enable the machinations of the others

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The problem is there is so much shit it’s hard to stay focused on the big picture stuff like this.

Most people don’t think about this level, so the illegitimate sc has at least done a few good things by drawing the attention to an area that democrats have failed to for some time. A game is being played for control of the SC among other things and the federalists are quite close.

Really cannot afford for the SC to swing further right