Chris Geidner: Sam Alito is a problem

[Nevilledog]

https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem

It’s been clear for some time that Justice Sam Alito was the Fox News (or an even further right-wing channel) justice on the U.S. Supreme Court bench.

The past two weeks have helped to cement that into the public consciousness for those who don’t hear him at oral arguments or read his opinions — particularly his concurrences and dissents.

He doesn’t have a legal philosophy beyond counting to five, and he doesn’t write opinions for the ages. He writes for now and, almost always, for Republicans.

He actually is, to turn the phrase on its head, a politician in robes.

His household also apparently is, for lack of a better phrase, really into flags.

On Wednesday, the New York Times was forced to put another incendiary, far-right flag photo from another Alito household on its home page. This was an “Appeal to Heaven” flag flown at his vacation home in New Jersey that often appeared in photos from January 6, 2021, and that the Times described as being a sign of “a religious strand of the ‘Stop the Steal’ campaign.” The first was the upside-down American flag flown at his home in Virginia in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, that had also been, the Times reported, used as a “Stop the Steal” symbol.

I say the Times was forced to do this because we should not be here, and it is a problem that we are.

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