Christian nationalist Justice Samuel Alito played the victim card, whining to the Wall Street Journal that no one is coming to their defense after he helped overturn Roe v. Wade.
Alito is the ultimate snowflake.
Grievance politics is a tried and true right-wing method of obfuscating the truth, and Alito uses it proudly and often. Does he expect to be celebrated by all Americans after handing control of a woman's body to the red states, dominated by religious old white men?
"Those of us who were thought to be in the majority, thought to have approved my draft opinion, were really targets of assassination,” Justice Alito says. “It was rational for people to believe that they might be able to stop the decision in Dobbs by killing one of us.”
Oh, please.
Alito claimed to know who the leaker was but didn't have enough proof to say who. Maybe he looked in the mirror and smiled?
And then he took a page from Trump's manual and whined like a stuck pig.
Justice Alito says “this type of concerted attack on the court and on individual justices” is “new during my lifetime. . . . We are being hammered daily, and I think quite unfairly in a lot of instances. And nobody, practically nobody, is defending us.
The entire right-wing echo system has been defending and celebrating Alito and the court since Roe v. Wade was overturned. What more does he want?
Maybe he believes the women of the left should lick his boots and thank him for his service?
Back in 2005, Jeralyn warned about Alito without even discussing abortion.
Jezebel lists the scandals that are plaguing the buckaroo Supreme Court.
Let’s briefly roll through some of the Supreme Court ethics scandals that have surfaced just in the past two weeks: Clarence Thomas, whose wife Ginni tried to overturn a presidential election, is being financed by a billionaire GOP megadonor who literally collects Hitler memorabilia and has a garden full of dictator statues (oh, and who doesn’t charge Thomas’ mother rent). Neil Gorsuch, who discloses gifts as small as cowboy boots and a fishing rod, did not disclose that he sold a 40-acre Colorado property he co-owned to the CEO of a law firm that often argues cases before the court. And Insider reported Friday that Chief Justice Thomas Roberts’ wife, Jane, was paid 10.3 million in commissions from “elite law firms” that, of course, also had business before the court.
But sure, he's the victim. If he's so frustrated, he should just resign, because all the stress of his imagined persecution is affecting his job performance.
Seems like we need to expand the court to get these cases moving and completed.
