“In a new, secret recording, the Supreme Court justice says he “agrees” that the U.S. should return to a place of godliness.”
says the intellectually compromised religious whackjob in one of the most important roles in the country. fantastic.
“I think you’re probably right,” Alito replies. “On one side or the other — one side or the other is going to win. I don’t know. I mean, there can be a way of working — a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised. They really can’t be compromised. So it’s not like you are going to split the difference.”
Yup. Democrats need to gain House majority and impeach him.
And 2/3 of the senate to I think.
What’s even sadder is he’s not even the only one on the court that covers
Remove the fascists!
Moderate Dems: Okay but as soon as Trump’s gone we can go back to compromising with the good Republicans.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The recording, which was provided exclusively to Rolling Stone, captures Windsor approaching Alito at the event and reminding him that they spoke at the same function the year before, when she asked him a question about political polarization.
That’s not for lawyers.” Presented with the claim that America is a “Christian nation” and that the Supreme Court should be “guiding us in that path,” Roberts again disagrees, citing the perspectives of “Jewish and Muslim friends,” before asserting, “It’s not our job to do that.
Although deeply conservative, Roberts now often finds himself outflanked by a far-right, five-justice majority faction — swelled by Donald Trump’s Supreme Court appointments — composed of Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett.
The New York Times has reported that, for years, right-wing activists who sought to influence the justices’ views have been encouraged to donate to the organization and use its events as an opportunity to cultivate personal relationships with the jurists.
Schenck sent a letter to Roberts revealing that in 2014, one of Faith and Action’s donors informed him that she had learned the outcome of Hobby Lobby v. Burwell, a decision that ultimately exempted employers from offering insurance coverage for birth control, at a D.C. dinner party hosted by the Alitos weeks before the ruling was released to the public.
Two theories have emerged about that person’s motivation: that it was a liberal who hoped to ignite a pressure campaign and change the outcome, or that it was a conservative determined to lock the majority in, discouraging any justice who may have harbored doubts about the monumental decision from defecting.
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Fucking activist judges!
Is there seriously nothing we can do but watch? This guy is going to help the Republicans turn our country into a theocracy.
Let’s go protest. Name the time and place.
Some of these justices are rather turbulent lately
