Play It Again, Sam.
So Justice Sam Alito is playing the world’s smallest violin and threatening to cry me a river.
Justice Samuel Alito said that the leak of his draft opinion to overturn Roe v. Wade made his colleagues in the majority on the U.S. Supreme Court “targets for assassination.”
Gee, Sam, for a man who supported loosening gun laws you sound a little whiny. Thanks to you and your conservative buddies, we have first graders who are targets of assassination.
First, let me tell you that he expressed his appalling paranoia in a speech at The Heritage Society, which shows he has even less moral courage than he does judicial character.
His second whine was about Elena Kagan saying that the court’s “legitimacy is threatened when long-standing precedence is discarded.” Oh Honey, Alito quivered like jello over that. He just got himself all twisted every which way and starts talking about crossing lines.
“Someone also crosses an important line when they say that the court is acting in a way that is illegitimate. I don’t think anybody in a position of authority should make that claim lightly,” Alito said. “That’s not just ordinary criticism. That’s something very different.”
I know. I know, sweet reader, you’re rolling your eyes. Alito and Trump’s Dump of Justices have absolutely no place to criticize someone crossing a line. The line is about fifty yards behind them.
I’m just gonna stop for minute right here and take a breath. It’s as good a time as any to show Alito shaking his head no during a state of the union address when President Barack Obama called out the Citizens United decision.
And then the icing on the cake:
Alito has deep concerns over expanding the size of the court.
“If Congress were to change the size of the court and the public perceived that the reason for changing the size of the court was to influence decisions in future cases,” Alito asked. “What would that do to the public perception of our independence and our legitimacy?”
Whoa there, cowboy. You think holding up Obama’s nominee for a year until after Obama leaves office and then approving Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination overnight to replace Ginsberg didn’t reflect poorly on the makeup of the court?
I know Alito ain’t that stupid so it’s gotta be insanity. That, or he’s taken up beer drinking with Kavanaugh.
The Heritage Society. Give me a damn break, you stinkin’ coward.
(I’m sorry this was so long but I didn’t have time for a short one.)
Considering the history of its decisions over 2 centuries, it’s astonishing that the Supreme court has a better reputation than the Mafia.
1Alito needs to quit taking those boner pulls, it’s taking all the blood away from his brain.
2His arrogance is just breath-taking. To imperfectly quote someone (Mark Twain?) I don’t wish anyone dead; but there are some obituaries I will read with great satisfaction.
3Sounds like Alito lives in a sci-fi parallel universe, where up is down, and actions have no reactions. I just wish he would grow a pointy goatee and mustache to make it obvious for those not paying attention that he’s evil Alito.
4I had myself convinced that the leak was on purpose and that once SCOTUS saw which way the wind was blowing, they’d change the decision.
I guess I really am an optimist at heart though I’ve always thought of myself as a glass 3/4 empty kinda gal.
5Alito says with a straight face that someone is crossing a line when they say the court is illegitimate? He conveniently forgot how Obama’s nomination for a supreme was illegitimately canceled by repugnanticans. Then he forgets how Gorsuch and Kavanaugh lied during their (illegitimate) confirmations on the precedent of Roe v Wade, among other things. Then there’s the supreme duo of mr and mrs ginni thomas who fail to recuse in matters of election questions. How could anyone say the court is illegitimate? How could they not say that.
6Alito is just sickening, isn’t he?
7Once again, a Repuke is projecting. Which is pretty much a given with them.
8BarbinDC – apparently that’s riff on a Clarence Darrow quote, but a truly excellent one!
9So sad Sammy feels threatened. Maybe he should not have leaked the decision.
10Snowflake!
11If the LEAK was the cause of making the Justices targets, imagine what the actual OPINION might have done. My guess — the content, whether in the leak or the signed opinion, triggered some anger. [and WHEN will we learn the official opinion of the investigation of the source of the leak?]
And speaking of violence … what do you suppose the score is when calculating deaths or substantial injuries among pro-Roe and anti-Roe partisans (and the judges who support them)? How about the comparison of total property damage and costs of security among clinics and “pregnancy crisis centers”?
12So a gun-loving rePUKEian is terrified that someone will use a gun to kill him?!?!?!! May be karma is real!!
13As in all cases, the GOPerverts just want their money .
14Brilliant!
15Hmmmmm! I don’t see any of the women on the court whining like little ninnies! Would love to know what Roberts thinks of all this.
16Repugnuts should be targets! We must rid the country of repugnut *ss holes!!
17When this man looks in a mirror–he sees nothing.
18He also has to be invited in before he can enter someone’s home.
Ban *hole from serving on such Court!!!!!
19Above was intended to say “Ban Ahole repugnuts from serving on said court! If the above mentioned are offended, then I have succeded as intended!
20Should Amercian democracy survive, Justice Alito will be ranked right up there with Justice Henry Billings Brown, who wrote the decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Perhaps Alito is talking about the Court’s legitimacy because he is having trouble sleeping. His opinions of the Court make him a strong candidate for being haunted by spirits.
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