Alito has just been sworn in, in private

[linazelle]

according to NPR news.

How fitting that it would take place in private.

[KSLeftyMom]

1. can't allow for any protestors to ruin the moment

They might think they are actually entitled to free speech or something.

[donheld]

2. Alito has just been sworn at, in public

:banghead:

[linazelle]

5. LOL nt

[calmblueocean]

6. lol!

Great one! I know the feeling.

[htuttle]

3. Did he have to get naked in a coffin?

Oops, nevermind. I'm thinking of the Skull and Bones ceremony.

[Fridays Child]

4. Just like all things B*sh: secretive.

[AX10]

7. Why is that? Roberts was sworn in during a Public Ceromony?

Gee, maybe that's because, Bush knows Alito is a scumbag! :argh:

[fooj]

11. What bullshit!

In private? WTF? Is he working for a PRIVATE firm? Rat bastards!

Peace.

[HERVEPA]

16. Yes

He is working for a private firm. BushCo

[fooj]

20. Yep.

:cry:

[Pirate Smile]

14. I think it is because they want his appearance at the SOTU to be a big

deal and the first time we see "Justice" Alito.

As in, Cinderella has shown up at the Ball in spite of the evil step-mother (Dems) and the evil step-sisters (Kerry and Kennedy). :eyes:

[txaslftist]

25. Bingo. You nailed it.

[Lars39]

8. Like thieves in the night...

High-fives look so unseemly on the camera. :sarcasm:Frickin' fascists. :grr:

[JeffR]

9. It was private

But hopefully the NSA managed to get all the details.
:puke:

[deminks]

10. A stealth ceremony for a stealth fascist pig. nt

[fooj]

12. Wonder if Martha had another one of her crying jags!

:puke:

[deminks]

24. I am sure they were ready to haul her out if they needed to.

The press (Tweety- I read somewhere) accused Sen. Kennedy of "molesting" her yesterday. I am quite sure they had their goons already to go. I do sometimes wonder what people are threatened with, besides anthrax.

[jillan]

13. Oh - he'll make his grand entrance tonite ...

How fitting for a King to present his
latest knight in such a grand manner.

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[MuseRider]

15. Wanna bet the media is out front

with their cameras to catch him walking through the cheering crowd in his grand new robe and signing autographs?

That was perhaps one of the most disgusting things I have ever witnessed. Rock star Supremes, swoon swoon :puke:

[tridim]

17. Maybe it's the cherry/buttcrack/beer ceremony?

Family Guy fans will understand.

Then again, it's probably more like a private Federalist society event. He's their guy and this is their country now.

[DrGrishka]

18. There are 2 Oaths

the "Constitutional one" and the "Judicial One." The judicial one is usually done in public, and the constitutional one in private. Roberts had the same thing.

Plus, the ceremony will be repeated (per SCOTUS announcement) in public (but w/o cameras) in the Supreme Court building sometimes soon during a "special sitting of the Court."

[JeffR]

21. Constitutional one has to be private

Pictures of him pissing all over it wouldn't be appropriate family viewing.

[FreedomAngel82]

19. What, no gloating to the public?

[Ksec]

22. Well then, say Helloooo corporate power

and goodbye privacy rights.

[Vinnie From Indy]

23. Omerta

They swore him in by pricking his finger and dripping the blood onto a picture of a saint which they then burned. He is a made man now!