Let's Hear It for Justice Sam Alito, America's Robed Ayatollah!
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
BY DAVE LINDORFF
Lets make a collective raspberry for the biggest loser of this off-year Congressional election: Supreme Court Justice and easily the most grouchy and sanctimonious jurist on the High Court bench Samuel Alito.
It was Alito who led the charge to finally accomplish what the vast majority of male Republican members of Congress and state legislatures across the country have been dreaming of doing for almost half a century: overturning the Supreme Courts Roe v Wade precedent barring states from outlawing a womans right to abortion and to control her own bodys reproductive system.
Alito, who wrote the legal opinion justifying the 6-3 decision he made along his five radical right-wing Federalist Society justices on the bench all guilty of lying in their confirmation hearings testimony by many claiming that they viewed Roe v. Wade as settled law, wrote that, It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the peoples elected representatives.
This was classic Alito. While he was right that it was time to turn it over from the six robed ayatollahs, but wrong about who would be taking over the battle: not the peoples elected representatives (heaven forfend!) but the voters those people whom Alito and most Republican judges at all levels have shown so little regard for, unless theyre white.
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Skittles
(153,321 posts)repukes find out the hard way that pissing of women is not a great strategy
agingdem
(7,877 posts)way back when Sandra Day O'Conner retired, W(moron)Bush nominated John Roberts to fill her vacancy on the Supreme Court..Alito was on the short list but the nomination went to Roberts, and then Chief Justice Rehnquist died..now what?..well, W bumped up Robert's nomination to Chief Justice and nominated Alito, the also-ran, to succeed O'Connor ...so now it dawns on second best Sam, if that twit W had nominated him instead of Roberts in the first place, he would be Chief Justice, not Roberts..oh, the humiliation, oh the revenge!.. Alito, a patient man, bided his time (decades), and when the opportunity finally presented itself Alito made his move... with the help of traitor Ginni's husband, under qualified Gorsuch, incompetent beer swilling sexual assaulter Brett, and religious zealot handmaiden Barrett, Alito decimated Roe v Wade, Roberts was diminished/his legacy in the toilet, and Alito was where he always wanted to be ..center stage, the big kahuna, the talk of the town...
Skittles
(153,321 posts)I am so sick of misogynists in real life but to have them on the SC is too much, UGH
patricia92243
(12,607 posts)Did this happen to Alito and what was his response?
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)malaise
(269,365 posts)Rec
bucolic_frolic
(43,567 posts)I mean, come on. What's going on there? They hail from just about the same place. And both wind up on the Supreme Court? Both Republican appointees, both ultra-conservative. What's going on with that?