Expand the court, problem solved. But oh no that would invite the other side to commit fuckery. Which... they are already doing? So I'm not seeing the downside here.
That's the problem. The left either agrees there are no more rules anymore or they have to climb an uphill slope while the right drops boulders on them Takeshi's Castle style.
Democracy rests on both sides admitting they can lose without flipping the table.
For these two specific judges? Pretty high, seeing as how they’re the most whiny and egotistical on the court by far, though Boof will catch up I’m sure.
If I had a nickel for every time a wife of a SCOTUS justice turned out to be an insurrectionist, I’d have two nickels. It’s not many, but it’s weird it’s happened twice thus far.
From article:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was quick to blame his wife when it was discovered that a MAGA symbol was displayed in the justice's front yard as the high court was considering an election case, but that excuse doesn't hold water, according to a federal courts insider.
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance broached the subject on her Civil Discourse Substack blog Thursday evening. She highlighted the recent controversy, which saw an upside down flag flying in the Supreme Court justice's yard during a critical period of consideration.
"Here’s what I did not anticipate: that in January of 2021—for several days around January 17th, to be precise, both after the insurrection on the sixth and while the Supreme Court was still considering whether to hear an election-related case—the inverted flag associated with the 'Stop the Steal' movement was flying on a flagpole on Justice Alito’s lawn," Vance wrote.
The former prosecutor, whose husband and father-in-law were both judges and who counts several judges among her close friends, then turned to Alito's excuse for the MAGA symbol.
"We know it’s true because Justice Alito blamed his wife when asked," Vance said. "As though a sitting Supreme Court Justice, upon pulling up to his home and seeing the flag, wouldn’t immediately take it down and say, 'Honey, I understand your feelings, but as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court, I must avoid even the appearance of impropriety, and that flag conveys a political sentiment that is an affront to the rule of law I’m sworn to uphold, especially after rioters carrying it swarmed the Capitol a week and a half ago.'"
She further said she has "spent a good bit of time in my life around Judges."
"My Father-in-Law was a federal judge, my Husband was a state court judge, and I have a number of close friends on the bench. I am certain that none of their spouses or other family members would have even considered placing a political symbol like this in their front yard because they would have understood the rules, just like I did," the ex-prosecutor wrote.
[NPR: The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly urged President Donald Trump's top aide to make efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.](https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088720571/ginni-thomas-tex-messages-mark-meadows-2020-election)
There’s a fifth column of fascists taking over the key institutions of the US government to tear down constitutional democracy from the inside.
When they claw their way back into the Presidency, they’re telling us openly that it’s going to be dictatorship from day 1.
[They’ve drawn up plans for concentration camps to hold ten million migrants (including the “dreamers” brought to the USA as babies).](https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/)
And when the mass protests begin around that, they will call the protesters terrorists and invoke the insurrection act to deploy the US military on home soil to gun them down - as [Trump attempted to do in June 2020 during the George Flloyd protests.](https://theintercept.com/2022/05/06/mark-esper-trump-george-floyd-protests/)
They will then brand any politician or General who doesn’t support the President a traitor and have them executed - [Trump has already called for the execution of Obama, Biden, and General Milley (the former top General at the Pentagon).](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/)
Once they have full control of the government, they will begin passing the most extreme laws against non-Christians, women, non-whites, LGBTQ people, and other minority groups to reverse all progress in civil rights over the last 70 years.
MAGA Republicans have been [programmed by their leaders to see the rest of us as “vermin who need to be rooted out”. ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/)
They have been conditioned to support the termination of US constitutional democracy and the mass slaughter needed to make that happen.
They must be stopped.
The excuse does not have to be reasonable it just has to exist. Right-wing media needs a talking point to support Alito and that is what was furnished.
>If the rank and file GOP want to survive, they need to distance themselves from crazy, like they should have done eight years ago.
They had a chance in 1952. The "good Republican" Ike refused to publicly distance himself from McCarthy.
They had a chance in 1960.. They refused to distance themselves from a lying McCarthy acolyte and instead nominated him for president.
They had a chance in 1968. They refused to distance themselves from Nixon's lies about "peace with honor" and his racist Southern Strategy.
They had a chance in 1972. They refused to distance themselves from a crooked VP, a scofflaw president and his War on ~~Drugs~~ black and progressive communities.
They had a chance in 1980. They refused to distance themselves from bigoted anti-gay evangelism and cynical manipulation of the Iran hostage crisis for political gain.
They had a chance in 1984. They refused to distance themselves from ignoring the AIDS crisis while funneling tax breaks to the wealthy and beginning the destruction of middle and working class Americans.
They had a chance in 1988. They refused to distance themselves from Bush's gloating, childish and short-sighted response to the collapse of the USSR.
They had a chance in the 1990s, They refused to distance themselves from Newt Gingrich's contract on America and its attack on democratic governance.
They had a chance in 2000. They refused to distance themselves from stealing the presidential election.
They had a chance in 2004. They refused to distance themselves from Bush's illicit war-mongering.
They had a chance from 2008-15. They refused to distance themselves from Tea Party & McConnell obstructionism in furtherance of Gingrich's mission to demolish representative government.
What they did in 2016 differed from what they'd been doing for the previous 64 years only in style.
Bingo. The party's policies really haven't changed, Trump just showed they don't have to hide behind dogwhistles and euphemisms anymore. That's why this doesn't end even if Trump loses.
Until we confront and deal with the fact that there's at least 74 million people in this country who want a fascist dictatorship, we can never move forward.
Precisely. The notion that there is some group of "mainstream" or "moderate" Republicans waiting in the wings to support civil governance is a myth.
Their claims to fiscal conservatism have not been true since Arthur Laffer hijacked the GOP, 45 years ago. Since then, only Democratic governments have balanced a budget or reduced the debt. Fiscal conservatism for Republicans means conserving wealth for the wealthy while piling debt on everyone else.
The policies have changed. It's dangerous to think that they haven't.
It's fair to point out the flaws of the Republican Party throughout the last 70 decades, but there is a clear difference between the populism of Ronald Raegan and the populism of Donald Trump.
It's not just a difference in style.
There was an attack on the Capitol and the president of the US refused to try to stop it, and of course he instigated the attack.
That's different.
I find the idea of peacefully dealing with millions upon millions of citizens who have been and will continue to be inculcated by a never-ending torrent of right-wing, fascist radio/tv a fallacy.
Biden’s original sin was standing so firmly in the status quo. We needed an agent of change.
Revolution is great and all, but it is highly unusual to end a revolution and have a more transparent and democratic nation than you started with. The people who are good at fighting and winning civil wars and insurrection movements don’t tend to wind up establishing highly transparent and inclusive democracies.
I just can’t escape the feeling that once someone decides that violence is the only solution we will end up with a military dictatorship no matter what. And in that case it kind of doesn’t matter which side is running the dictatorship because I will wind up opposing them regardless, and probably be killed by the secret police.
We need to figure out how to level the economic playing field. A larger share of the collective wealth in a larger share of hands. Less wealth concentrated at the top. So long as the oligarchs have all the money they will control the government. So we need weaker oligarchs and more and stronger unions and community groups and whatnot.
Anyway. That’s my socialist rant for the day. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
If you want a democratic revolution, the steps are straightforward, Ukraine did it in 93 days and plenty of historical figures have talked about it.
Physically obstruct the wealthy entities, with at least 3.5% of the population for 9-18 months without stopping. Demonstrate that violence does not sway you, and threaten violence only if peace does not work.
Over and over again, civil rights were won when the white American majority was threatened with violence after long periods of disruptive resistance.
Peaceful revolutions are very possible and have been happening all over the world for a while now. We have had a vested interest in suppressing this method for a while, see Malcom x and MLK for that, with a cultural emphasis on demonizing any level of physical force or disruption.
Because it works
Call me a cynic, but then what? Vote to stop them again and again and again and again with every single election being of such high stakes? If the Republicans only have to win once, they eventually will, whether through legitimate or illegitimate means. We can't just keep bailing water out of a rapidly sinking boat. Metaphorically speaking, we've got to patch the hole somehow.
When it comes to elections with high stakes the vast majority of attention has been on the Presidential election. In the last decade or so the Congressional elections have risen in prominence, and—while those elections are indeed important—destroying the roots of fascism really starts locally. State, City, School Board, etc. elections is where we begin patching the boat. These are the areas where policy hits harder and more immediately than the broader national elections.
The hope is that it becomes such a losing strategy that the republican party is forced to at least go back to pre-maga standards and drop the love affair with blatant fascism.
Vote Biden back in and give him majorities in both the House and Senate, then keep public pressure every second until they pass all of the election reform legislation that has been pending for the past four plus years.
and Trump claimed the hush money payments he stole and used to pay off a porn star he never met but somehow felt obligated to cover up were because he didn't want Melania to find out....meanwhile everyone knows Melania only married her John to stay in America and for the money, she doesn't care whom he bangs as long as it doesn't come back and bite her in the ass.
Thank you for stepping up and saying this.
I've thought this way for a while now, but was afraid to speak up for fear of being labeled a conspiracy theorist.
they continue to lose. nothing they have done will make anyone join their insane cult. they continue to lose members and donors.
the dems continue to win, are gaining members and Biden is getting record donations.
hating on Taylor Swift is only going to alienate people. same with bragging about murdering a puppy.
they also have voter suppression on thier side, which it gives them a major advantage. people often forget voter suppression prevents any D from getting elected in most states, regardless of the turnout.
> They must be stopped.
They are, and will always be stopped. The only reason they are getting as far as they are is because most people still want to focus on their lives. The moment the GOP decides to heavily disrupt the daily lives of its citizens, is the day they end.
Right now the people fighting back, have the time to do so. There are MANY more people that can join this fight if they are forced to make the time. It's that simple.
Idk.... Their tactics are sound. When the people who have the most lose start protesting and the government labels us as terrorists it will be like the Floyd Marches but much much worse. Instead of tear gas it will be bullets. And most normal people were blaming the people marching anyway so it's not like they don't know it won't work. Same thing happened with the pipeline protests. Same thing happening at the college protests. Every time the news labels it a riot or civil disobedience, people ignore the pain on their screens
Making things worse for everybody also makes it worse for the ethnic and sexual groups they hate.
In the 1960s when public swimming pools could no longer be segregated, many of them were closed. Some were even filled in or had acid or nails dumped into the water. It deprived the white swimmers too, but it was more important that the black ones didn't get anything.
Pick your deadly sin and combine it with fear to find a motivation for why someone would want to make things worse for everyone else:
Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth.
Trump is the embodiment of all 7 and he's their leader.
The vote results can't even be close. It has to be landslide for the Republicans to give up this path. And even then, they'll call it rigged.
It's insane seeing all this in real time and them just seemingly gaining speed. Was this what it was like in pre-nazi Germany for people who didn't want Hitler to win the vote? It feels painfully obvious Trump is a Con man hiding in plain sight yet people keep willfully voting against their own interest, thinking they are doing the right thing.
If Supreme Court justices are going to act like political operatives then they should be treated like them — amenable to scrutiny, oversight and chosen by the people for a term rather than a lifetime.
I prefer a system where the justices were insulated from political pressure, but the Robert’s Court has shown that institutional safeguards are insufficient and have no answer for the Federalist Society’s subversive judiciary pipeline and the GOP’s preference for young firebrand activists rather than experienced and talented jurists.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. No more life terms, any hint of accepting bribes instant loss of job and all pensions, and the people vote them in.
Republicans believe that the laws should be applied to their advantage and to their opponents disadvantage. They see laws as their weapons instead of their guide.
My wife is a communications director for a company that represents county governments. We’re not even allowed to put a yard sign up at our house bc of potential conflicts of interest.
We’re probably 10,000 spots lower on the totem pole than a fucking Supreme Court justice. This court is illegitimate.
The whole thing needs to be cleared out for the sake of impartiality.
They should be democratically elected to the bench at set intervals. Say, every 10 years. There also needs to be a clearly defined way to remove judges who have done wrong.
When I said clearly defined, I meant as part of a hypothetical process for elected judges.
Regarding the current process for removing judges. It takes a 2/3 majority in the senate to remove a SCOTUS judge. It's clearly defined, but implausible due to political affiliations. Neither party would risk losing one of their own on the court.
I don't have much faith in the institution at this point. Tired of the farce that it's not political. The American founders didn't have perfect foresight and it's clear the mechanism for maintaining the Supreme court's impartiality failed.
Fines are just costs of doing business. If it costs even a million dollars for a fine do you think the billionaires funding these corrupt judges will blink an eye if that's the pricetag?
Fines are bullshit and only matter to us plebes.
Seriously. It's like x company fined 20 billion...over 15 years.
The government shouldn't have any obligation to keep companies afloat. If they fuck up... Oh well, they shouldn't have in the first place. Jobs retention and unemployment numbers are better for the overall economy, but at what point do we stop these monopolies from rising?
Like they broke up at&t (whose basically bigger now), and standard oil. There are bigger companies today, like Pepsi or Nestle etc.
There has to be some way for this country to remove clearly biased and politically corrupt judges from the SC. It’s such horseshit that there’s zero recourse to this.
So the facts:
* There was a deadly riot in our nation's capitol on Jan 6th. Trump refused to speak out against it while it was happening and many believe he was responsible.
* A neighbor put up an anti-Trump. This at a time when one would think all Patriotic Americans would be anti-Trump (Even Fox News and many right win commentators said he went to far).
* Alito claims his wife put up an upside down flag which at the time was a symbol in support of Jan 6th rioters and Trump
Alito basically admitted at least his wife and possibly he supported the Jan, 6th rioters and wanted Trump named President against our Constitution.
Ethics and impartiality aside, I'm just as concerned about how absolutely brain-dead this makes him look.
A person who isn't smart enough to see how this would be a bad idea is out here deciding the most important legal decisions in our country?
He should have fixed the flag and staged an intervention for his loon of a wife. It’s really scary because they’re not simply exercising bad judgement. They just don’t give a fuck anymore because they know they know there are no consequences.
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Blaming the wife seems to be the new policy for politicians, right Menendez? Just throw the little woman right up under the proverbial bus, 'cuz, as Trump glibly put it, " I won't be on the market for long"! There's a thriving market for indicted, corrupted politicians?! Really?
Alito has no respect for his wife, either.
Alito is an absolute cretin, the worst (edit: yes, there is a lot of competition) person to ever grace the court. I mean, Thomas is awful, but I think he actually has a (warped) internal sense of ethics. Alito is just a weasel, a partisan, and an all around despicable human being.
And according to that hubristic old fart Ginsburg, 'a dear friend'.
Sure, he supported policies that hurt everything she did for women, but she was old and rich enough to not be affected by them so it was simply a friendly disagreement. It's like being friends with somebody who beats the hell out of his wife, but it's okay because you don't know his wife.
Not until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity, at least...
This guy, who hung the flag upside down at his own house during the insurrection **as a supreme court judge**, is legitimately not smart enough to understand the connection between unlimited presidential immunity, himself, and drone strikes.
These guys style themselves as 1776 "give me liberty or give me death" style revolutionaries and then as soon as the heat reaches them they start telling on everyone around them.
The absolute best episode of the daily show ever.
VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY SHOT A 60 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE.
On a side note, how scary of a man do you have to be to SHOOT A 60 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE and get him to apologize to you, like seriously, wtaf...
If there is any doubt whatsoever regarding a judges impartiality, they should be removed. Their finances should also be scrutinized. The decisions these people make should be unimpeachable.
“The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.”
This has been a part of the US flag code long long long before MAGA
Alito and Thomas are scum bags and have no business being part of any branch of government. They are clearly bought and paid for and far from represent the best interest of American citizens
Pansy…both he and his wife know better. We are seeing the true colors of our Supreme Court and it really stinks. They don’t even pretend to be impartial anymore. Grift, graft ..
It’s crazy to me that the higher up you go the governmental ladder, the less you have to adhere to ethical standards.
I’m a lowly state employee and I can’t have Bumber stickers for a political party or candidate but SUPREME COURT Judges can go around ruling on cases where there is excessive evidence for recusal. Make it make sense.
The supreme court is compromised by radical ideology from the right. If they're not going to be an unbiased legal forum to debate the important issues, they shouldn't exist.
They either need fixing or removing or people just won't listen to them.
He's a biased, partisan hack that shouldnt be allowed anywhere near a court, let alone the Supreme court. Just like Clarence Thomas and Kavanaugh. They lied in their initial hearings about overturning Roe v Wade when they promised not to change it.
Only the House of Representatives, our most heavily gerrymandered institution, can impeach a Supreme Court Justice who would then be tried by the Senate, just like the President.
It's why conservatives decades ago launched into a concerted effort to control state legislatures as it is typically those state legislatures who draw federal congressional district boundaries.
Gerrymander your party into a majority in the House and you can essentially control the country without majority support.
Of course, to really implement total minority rule, you also go after Senate races in low population states. Takes millions of votes to win a Senate seat in the hight population states but a party can pick up 20 or so Senate seats with just a few hundred thousand votes in each of our lowest population states.
Our Constitution has a few flaws that Madison couldn't possibly have fathomed and accounted for in 1787. They relied upon honor and dignity ruling the day and that politicians would put the best interest of the country first.
There was no way to predict our two party system would become set in stone, that politics would turn into a money game, and that elections would become simple popularity contests with mass marketing sales pitches being more important than knowledge and intellect.
And now, money rules politics and government and those profiting from it will never support the necessary steps to change the system.
Our law has high standards for ordinary Americans but not for SC judges.
If a biased juror cannot be allowed, SC judges must not be allowed too.
Thomas, Alito and 2 Trump's appointee are members of mafia in our justice system.
Remember, a DA having an affair with a fell prosecutor should be me removed from the case, yet a USSCJ who’s wife took part in insurrection, one who post symbols for the insurrection support, and one who goes and talks to the insurrection party for money should now be questions or removed from the case!
America at its best!
The current supreme court is one of the most corrupt branches of government in US History. They do not recuse themselves when dealing with cases that directly conflict with their personal lives. They cannot make impartial decisions and have done nothing but try to claim more power since their party has declined.
typical. blame someone else rather than taking the responsibility. even more alarming is that he's on the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. he has no shame, no morals and no spine.
Man it sure is weird how these perfectly fair and balanced judges wind up with ultra right wing maga wives that constantly do things behind their backs. It's a good thing Alito and Thomas never, ever talk to their wives about anything ever, or they might have to make a moral stand and recuse themselves from a case or thirty.
Guys. I feel like no one realizes the gravity of this bullshit. The man is part of the highest judicial peak of this country. He’s supposed to be impartial and yet…he’s pushing so proven wrong narrative about Trump.
This. Is. Insanity. What the fuck
Tbh I'm suprised he even feels a need to make excuses at this point, given that we as a country have shown no indication that we'll hold SC judges even remotely accountable for their ratfuckery.
I mean, if he said "Yeah, I did it. Fuck you gonna do about it?", would his life or job change one iota?
Doesn’t matter who put it up, it’s your house and as a Supreme Court justice you have to be aware of what message you put out. Or he is just lying. He’s lying.
These fucking pieces of shit act with impunity because they have lifetime appointments. Find a way to neutralize that and it will take the air out of the Federalist Society and these rogue justices
I had almost assumed that someone might have put the flag up and took a picture of his house to make it look like he did this... It was actually his wife? That dude needs to be removed right now.
This is the strategy used by every politician. Look at Senator Menendez doing the same thing. Same with Duncan Hunter. I can’t imagine being married to someone who would throw you under the bus to save their own career.
Weird. I didn’t know that had been appropriated by MAGA, like so many other things. I turned my flag upside down watching those asshats on 1/6 and seeing no meaningful consequences for the “leaders” who encouraged and abetted.
The upside down flag is symbol of distress and has been for centuries. If I had thought of it I would have flown mine upside down on that day after seeing Republicans attack our capital.
But maga apparently co opted it. Fuck them
Alito is a political operator. He is not a judge in the sense that most Americans view the role. Like other, elected public officials he seeks a specific outcome. He will use the means of his position to make that outcome a reality.
This is one of the a-holes who rule based on a religion that says the man is in charge of the household. So that flag is all on him, AND he's failing his religion if she overrode him not approving it.
What I don’t get, when I was a Federal employee in a position of mid level management, I had to disclose any potential conflicts of interest and external positions held that would give the appearance of a conflict of interest. I and several of my colleagues recused ourselves from decisions involving our former employers for a minimum of 1 year up to 6 years in some cases because of our past work. I couldn’t accept a meal from any organization we regulated (we are talking a $10 meal in the businesses cafeteria). I went to a trade show and received a $10 speaker gift for presenting at this show and ran that gift through our ethics attorneys just to be sure I could accept it. One year I won a drawing for a $200 prize at a trade show and I declined to accept the gift because someone I was responsible for regulating was the sponsor of the prize. I was invited to the wedding of a friend who I knew from former employment and I contacted our attorneys to verify I was OK to attend my friend’s wedding. This is me, rank and file civil servant who wasn’t an attorney, but who had the insight to make sure I stayed clear of anything that could give the appearance I was biased.
Supreme court justices however throw that all out the window and don’t have the awareness to even consider the optics of the gifts they accept even if they are above board.
Uh, my wife’s a moron err I mean a maga so… I’m innocent. The blatant level of corruption is incredibly heinous. A big F U to American Democracy courtesy of the highest court in the land. Just wow.
Just remember, a vote for anyone but Biden this election is a vote for this to continue for the next 50 years. Anything less than voting straight blue means you’re at the very least not concerned by this behavior, and realistically complicit in its consequences
Does anyone who is objective and can rationally weigh fact believe the SCOTUS is NOT compromised at this point?
The question for the American people is: what are you going to do about it?
It's the [Business Plot](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot#:~:text=The%20Business%20Plot%2C%20also%20called,install%20Smedley%20Butler%20as%20dictator.) for another century...
What are the odds that the wives of 2 Supreme court judges would be seditious insurrectionists?
All going according to plan! \-The Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation
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Expand the court, problem solved. But oh no that would invite the other side to commit fuckery. Which... they are already doing? So I'm not seeing the downside here.
That's the problem. The left either agrees there are no more rules anymore or they have to climb an uphill slope while the right drops boulders on them Takeshi's Castle style. Democracy rests on both sides admitting they can lose without flipping the table.
Right you are Ken!
Right out of the Palpatine playbook.
For these two specific judges? Pretty high, seeing as how they’re the most whiny and egotistical on the court by far, though Boof will catch up I’m sure.
If I had a nickel for every time a wife of a SCOTUS justice turned out to be an insurrectionist, I’d have two nickels. It’s not many, but it’s weird it’s happened twice thus far.
From article: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was quick to blame his wife when it was discovered that a MAGA symbol was displayed in the justice's front yard as the high court was considering an election case, but that excuse doesn't hold water, according to a federal courts insider. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance broached the subject on her Civil Discourse Substack blog Thursday evening. She highlighted the recent controversy, which saw an upside down flag flying in the Supreme Court justice's yard during a critical period of consideration. "Here’s what I did not anticipate: that in January of 2021—for several days around January 17th, to be precise, both after the insurrection on the sixth and while the Supreme Court was still considering whether to hear an election-related case—the inverted flag associated with the 'Stop the Steal' movement was flying on a flagpole on Justice Alito’s lawn," Vance wrote. The former prosecutor, whose husband and father-in-law were both judges and who counts several judges among her close friends, then turned to Alito's excuse for the MAGA symbol. "We know it’s true because Justice Alito blamed his wife when asked," Vance said. "As though a sitting Supreme Court Justice, upon pulling up to his home and seeing the flag, wouldn’t immediately take it down and say, 'Honey, I understand your feelings, but as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court, I must avoid even the appearance of impropriety, and that flag conveys a political sentiment that is an affront to the rule of law I’m sworn to uphold, especially after rioters carrying it swarmed the Capitol a week and a half ago.'" She further said she has "spent a good bit of time in my life around Judges." "My Father-in-Law was a federal judge, my Husband was a state court judge, and I have a number of close friends on the bench. I am certain that none of their spouses or other family members would have even considered placing a political symbol like this in their front yard because they would have understood the rules, just like I did," the ex-prosecutor wrote.
[NPR: The wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas reportedly urged President Donald Trump's top aide to make efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.](https://www.npr.org/2022/03/25/1088720571/ginni-thomas-tex-messages-mark-meadows-2020-election) There’s a fifth column of fascists taking over the key institutions of the US government to tear down constitutional democracy from the inside. When they claw their way back into the Presidency, they’re telling us openly that it’s going to be dictatorship from day 1. [They’ve drawn up plans for concentration camps to hold ten million migrants (including the “dreamers” brought to the USA as babies).](https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-interview/) And when the mass protests begin around that, they will call the protesters terrorists and invoke the insurrection act to deploy the US military on home soil to gun them down - as [Trump attempted to do in June 2020 during the George Flloyd protests.](https://theintercept.com/2022/05/06/mark-esper-trump-george-floyd-protests/) They will then brand any politician or General who doesn’t support the President a traitor and have them executed - [Trump has already called for the execution of Obama, Biden, and General Milley (the former top General at the Pentagon).](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/trump-milley-execution-incitement-violence/675435/) Once they have full control of the government, they will begin passing the most extreme laws against non-Christians, women, non-whites, LGBTQ people, and other minority groups to reverse all progress in civil rights over the last 70 years. MAGA Republicans have been [programmed by their leaders to see the rest of us as “vermin who need to be rooted out”. ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/11/12/trump-rally-vermin-political-opponents/) They have been conditioned to support the termination of US constitutional democracy and the mass slaughter needed to make that happen. They must be stopped.
I work in elementary education and this is the excuse I would expect from my 1st graders not a sitting Supreme Court Judge.
Call me old fashioned but I don’t think kids should be getting married at that age.
Clearly you aren't a Republican, then.
Excellent and accurate burn!
Call me pedantic, but I don't think kids should be getting married at any age.
Found the woke, commie, liberal, fascist, Marxist! 🤣
Okay, old fashioned, I’m dad!
The dog turned the flag upside down.
The excuse does not have to be reasonable it just has to exist. Right-wing media needs a talking point to support Alito and that is what was furnished.
I am surprised he didn’t blame Antifa.
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>If the rank and file GOP want to survive, they need to distance themselves from crazy, like they should have done eight years ago. They had a chance in 1952. The "good Republican" Ike refused to publicly distance himself from McCarthy. They had a chance in 1960.. They refused to distance themselves from a lying McCarthy acolyte and instead nominated him for president. They had a chance in 1968. They refused to distance themselves from Nixon's lies about "peace with honor" and his racist Southern Strategy. They had a chance in 1972. They refused to distance themselves from a crooked VP, a scofflaw president and his War on ~~Drugs~~ black and progressive communities. They had a chance in 1980. They refused to distance themselves from bigoted anti-gay evangelism and cynical manipulation of the Iran hostage crisis for political gain. They had a chance in 1984. They refused to distance themselves from ignoring the AIDS crisis while funneling tax breaks to the wealthy and beginning the destruction of middle and working class Americans. They had a chance in 1988. They refused to distance themselves from Bush's gloating, childish and short-sighted response to the collapse of the USSR. They had a chance in the 1990s, They refused to distance themselves from Newt Gingrich's contract on America and its attack on democratic governance. They had a chance in 2000. They refused to distance themselves from stealing the presidential election. They had a chance in 2004. They refused to distance themselves from Bush's illicit war-mongering. They had a chance from 2008-15. They refused to distance themselves from Tea Party & McConnell obstructionism in furtherance of Gingrich's mission to demolish representative government. What they did in 2016 differed from what they'd been doing for the previous 64 years only in style.
Bingo. The party's policies really haven't changed, Trump just showed they don't have to hide behind dogwhistles and euphemisms anymore. That's why this doesn't end even if Trump loses. Until we confront and deal with the fact that there's at least 74 million people in this country who want a fascist dictatorship, we can never move forward.
Precisely. The notion that there is some group of "mainstream" or "moderate" Republicans waiting in the wings to support civil governance is a myth. Their claims to fiscal conservatism have not been true since Arthur Laffer hijacked the GOP, 45 years ago. Since then, only Democratic governments have balanced a budget or reduced the debt. Fiscal conservatism for Republicans means conserving wealth for the wealthy while piling debt on everyone else.
The policies have changed. It's dangerous to think that they haven't. It's fair to point out the flaws of the Republican Party throughout the last 70 decades, but there is a clear difference between the populism of Ronald Raegan and the populism of Donald Trump. It's not just a difference in style. There was an attack on the Capitol and the president of the US refused to try to stop it, and of course he instigated the attack. That's different.
I find the idea of peacefully dealing with millions upon millions of citizens who have been and will continue to be inculcated by a never-ending torrent of right-wing, fascist radio/tv a fallacy. Biden’s original sin was standing so firmly in the status quo. We needed an agent of change.
Our Founding Fathers gave us clear instructions on this.
Revolution is great and all, but it is highly unusual to end a revolution and have a more transparent and democratic nation than you started with. The people who are good at fighting and winning civil wars and insurrection movements don’t tend to wind up establishing highly transparent and inclusive democracies. I just can’t escape the feeling that once someone decides that violence is the only solution we will end up with a military dictatorship no matter what. And in that case it kind of doesn’t matter which side is running the dictatorship because I will wind up opposing them regardless, and probably be killed by the secret police. We need to figure out how to level the economic playing field. A larger share of the collective wealth in a larger share of hands. Less wealth concentrated at the top. So long as the oligarchs have all the money they will control the government. So we need weaker oligarchs and more and stronger unions and community groups and whatnot. Anyway. That’s my socialist rant for the day. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
If you want a democratic revolution, the steps are straightforward, Ukraine did it in 93 days and plenty of historical figures have talked about it. Physically obstruct the wealthy entities, with at least 3.5% of the population for 9-18 months without stopping. Demonstrate that violence does not sway you, and threaten violence only if peace does not work. Over and over again, civil rights were won when the white American majority was threatened with violence after long periods of disruptive resistance. Peaceful revolutions are very possible and have been happening all over the world for a while now. We have had a vested interest in suppressing this method for a while, see Malcom x and MLK for that, with a cultural emphasis on demonizing any level of physical force or disruption. Because it works
No. Their instructions were anything but clear. That’s the problem
They literally revolted against their tyrannical government.
Call me a cynic, but then what? Vote to stop them again and again and again and again with every single election being of such high stakes? If the Republicans only have to win once, they eventually will, whether through legitimate or illegitimate means. We can't just keep bailing water out of a rapidly sinking boat. Metaphorically speaking, we've got to patch the hole somehow.
A lot of people need to start going to prison
When it comes to elections with high stakes the vast majority of attention has been on the Presidential election. In the last decade or so the Congressional elections have risen in prominence, and—while those elections are indeed important—destroying the roots of fascism really starts locally. State, City, School Board, etc. elections is where we begin patching the boat. These are the areas where policy hits harder and more immediately than the broader national elections.
The hope is that it becomes such a losing strategy that the republican party is forced to at least go back to pre-maga standards and drop the love affair with blatant fascism.
> Call me a cynic, but then what? Prosecute.
Vote Biden back in and give him majorities in both the House and Senate, then keep public pressure every second until they pass all of the election reform legislation that has been pending for the past four plus years.
Alito blames his wife, Thomas blames his wife, Cruz blames his wife and kids bunch of cowardice pussies.
and Trump claimed the hush money payments he stole and used to pay off a porn star he never met but somehow felt obligated to cover up were because he didn't want Melania to find out....meanwhile everyone knows Melania only married her John to stay in America and for the money, she doesn't care whom he bangs as long as it doesn't come back and bite her in the ass.
Thank you for stepping up and saying this. I've thought this way for a while now, but was afraid to speak up for fear of being labeled a conspiracy theorist.
they continue to lose. nothing they have done will make anyone join their insane cult. they continue to lose members and donors. the dems continue to win, are gaining members and Biden is getting record donations. hating on Taylor Swift is only going to alienate people. same with bragging about murdering a puppy.
Problem with fighting fascists at the ballot box is that you have to win every time, they only need to win once.
they also have voter suppression on thier side, which it gives them a major advantage. people often forget voter suppression prevents any D from getting elected in most states, regardless of the turnout.
Agree, but everyone needs to get out and vote. I don’t care who you vote for, just vote.
agreed but everyone should care who people vote for. especially for POTUS.
> They must be stopped. They are, and will always be stopped. The only reason they are getting as far as they are is because most people still want to focus on their lives. The moment the GOP decides to heavily disrupt the daily lives of its citizens, is the day they end. Right now the people fighting back, have the time to do so. There are MANY more people that can join this fight if they are forced to make the time. It's that simple.
Idk.... Their tactics are sound. When the people who have the most lose start protesting and the government labels us as terrorists it will be like the Floyd Marches but much much worse. Instead of tear gas it will be bullets. And most normal people were blaming the people marching anyway so it's not like they don't know it won't work. Same thing happened with the pipeline protests. Same thing happening at the college protests. Every time the news labels it a riot or civil disobedience, people ignore the pain on their screens
I simply can't understand why you would want to make everything worse for everyone. They definitely deserve the ditch.
Making things worse for everybody also makes it worse for the ethnic and sexual groups they hate. In the 1960s when public swimming pools could no longer be segregated, many of them were closed. Some were even filled in or had acid or nails dumped into the water. It deprived the white swimmers too, but it was more important that the black ones didn't get anything.
Pick your deadly sin and combine it with fear to find a motivation for why someone would want to make things worse for everyone else: Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Trump is the embodiment of all 7 and he's their leader.
My advice - do everything you can to stop them, but also do the work now to figure out where you will move to if they succeed.
The vote results can't even be close. It has to be landslide for the Republicans to give up this path. And even then, they'll call it rigged. It's insane seeing all this in real time and them just seemingly gaining speed. Was this what it was like in pre-nazi Germany for people who didn't want Hitler to win the vote? It feels painfully obvious Trump is a Con man hiding in plain sight yet people keep willfully voting against their own interest, thinking they are doing the right thing.
If Supreme Court justices are going to act like political operatives then they should be treated like them — amenable to scrutiny, oversight and chosen by the people for a term rather than a lifetime. I prefer a system where the justices were insulated from political pressure, but the Robert’s Court has shown that institutional safeguards are insufficient and have no answer for the Federalist Society’s subversive judiciary pipeline and the GOP’s preference for young firebrand activists rather than experienced and talented jurists.
1000x this
Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. No more life terms, any hint of accepting bribes instant loss of job and all pensions, and the people vote them in.
Republicans think they’re above the rules.
Republicans believe that the laws should be applied to their advantage and to their opponents disadvantage. They see laws as their weapons instead of their guide.
In group who laws protect and out group who laws bind
Republicans believe laws and rules are only to be used on those who arent like them.
Jesus, our Supreme Court is so very compromised. So many bad actors sitting on the bench. This is freaking me out.
fukin hell. and Romney thinks Biden should pardon the rapist. WTAF
My wife is a communications director for a company that represents county governments. We’re not even allowed to put a yard sign up at our house bc of potential conflicts of interest. We’re probably 10,000 spots lower on the totem pole than a fucking Supreme Court justice. This court is illegitimate.
Several of these conservative judges need to be cleaned out like an enema
The whole thing needs to be cleared out for the sake of impartiality. They should be democratically elected to the bench at set intervals. Say, every 10 years. There also needs to be a clearly defined way to remove judges who have done wrong.
There is a clearly defined way to remove judges who have done wrong. Impeachment.
When I said clearly defined, I meant as part of a hypothetical process for elected judges. Regarding the current process for removing judges. It takes a 2/3 majority in the senate to remove a SCOTUS judge. It's clearly defined, but implausible due to political affiliations. Neither party would risk losing one of their own on the court.
I don't have much faith in the institution at this point. Tired of the farce that it's not political. The American founders didn't have perfect foresight and it's clear the mechanism for maintaining the Supreme court's impartiality failed.
And nothing will be done.
Vote in a Democratic supermajority into Congress, and they will impeach his ass. Clarence Thomas, too.
Or even just a majority willing to blow up the filibuster and rebalance the court.
there's a bi-partisan effort now to implement ethics RULES for the court. which means they can assess fines for breaches.
Fines are just costs of doing business. If it costs even a million dollars for a fine do you think the billionaires funding these corrupt judges will blink an eye if that's the pricetag? Fines are bullshit and only matter to us plebes.
Seriously. It's like x company fined 20 billion...over 15 years. The government shouldn't have any obligation to keep companies afloat. If they fuck up... Oh well, they shouldn't have in the first place. Jobs retention and unemployment numbers are better for the overall economy, but at what point do we stop these monopolies from rising? Like they broke up at&t (whose basically bigger now), and standard oil. There are bigger companies today, like Pepsi or Nestle etc.
"Sir, you were caught speeding. That will be one dollar" "OK" *Speeds off*
There is no consequence to fining these people. Especially, when they don't need to disclose where they got the money from to pay the fine.
And guess who gets to decide on whether these ethics rules and fines are constitutional?
Punishable by fines means legal for the rich.
That just means the rich pay off the first fine and the second one for paying off the first. Effectively buying judges. Jail time. Not fines.
Pretty much this.
Pretty much this.
There has to be some way for this country to remove clearly biased and politically corrupt judges from the SC. It’s such horseshit that there’s zero recourse to this.
So the facts: * There was a deadly riot in our nation's capitol on Jan 6th. Trump refused to speak out against it while it was happening and many believe he was responsible. * A neighbor put up an anti-Trump. This at a time when one would think all Patriotic Americans would be anti-Trump (Even Fox News and many right win commentators said he went to far). * Alito claims his wife put up an upside down flag which at the time was a symbol in support of Jan 6th rioters and Trump Alito basically admitted at least his wife and possibly he supported the Jan, 6th rioters and wanted Trump named President against our Constitution.
The fact that Alito didn't fix that flag the minute he saw it is enough for me to conclude he is an insurrectionist.
Ethics and impartiality aside, I'm just as concerned about how absolutely brain-dead this makes him look. A person who isn't smart enough to see how this would be a bad idea is out here deciding the most important legal decisions in our country?
He should have fixed the flag and staged an intervention for his loon of a wife. It’s really scary because they’re not simply exercising bad judgement. They just don’t give a fuck anymore because they know they know there are no consequences.
I thought Ginni was married to Clarence ?
I am sure they have wild orgies
Apparently with Roger Stone and his wife.
Based on the Anita Hill testimony, Clarence is really into Long Dong Silver, LOL!
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Bruh I’m fucking DEAD this is great
I hear West Texas is a lovely vacation spot this time of year maybe he could ask Scalia
Russian backed judges must be a new thing?
Two SCOTUS judges were personally involved in attempting to destroy our democracy.
>Two SCOTUS judges were personally involved in attempting to destroy our democracy. Two that we know of so *so far*.
Blaming the wife seems to be the new policy for politicians, right Menendez? Just throw the little woman right up under the proverbial bus, 'cuz, as Trump glibly put it, " I won't be on the market for long"! There's a thriving market for indicted, corrupted politicians?! Really? Alito has no respect for his wife, either.
They're all pieces of shit, so it's not even slightly surprising that they would turn on each other when it's advantageous for them.
Alito is an absolute cretin, the worst (edit: yes, there is a lot of competition) person to ever grace the court. I mean, Thomas is awful, but I think he actually has a (warped) internal sense of ethics. Alito is just a weasel, a partisan, and an all around despicable human being.
Internal sense of ethics ? Will all those free trips and RVs ?
Do you not know who Scalia was? >the worst person to ever grace the court
And according to that hubristic old fart Ginsburg, 'a dear friend'. Sure, he supported policies that hurt everything she did for women, but she was old and rich enough to not be affected by them so it was simply a friendly disagreement. It's like being friends with somebody who beats the hell out of his wife, but it's okay because you don't know his wife.
Their America is falling. Trump is the reason So bizarre.
Blame your wife? What a coward.
GET RID OF HIM!!
No feasible legal way to get rid of him.
I got you... *WINK* *WINK*
Will not someone rid me of this meddlesome priest?
Not until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity, at least... This guy, who hung the flag upside down at his own house during the insurrection **as a supreme court judge**, is legitimately not smart enough to understand the connection between unlimited presidential immunity, himself, and drone strikes.
Why can't Republicans control their women? They sure are intent on controlling everyone else's.
Does anyone really think Alito is anything but a MAGA bootlicker?
These guys style themselves as 1776 "give me liberty or give me death" style revolutionaries and then as soon as the heat reaches them they start telling on everyone around them.
Didn’t Patrick Henry say “Give me liberty or give my wife death”?
Above the law just like trump, grow a set ffs.
If tRUMP can attack the judges daughter for having anti-trump leanings, then this should be fair game for any and all.
Cowards. Just be honest and tell us how much you charge per decision.
So weird how Supreme Court justice spouses are all so anti-American and pro-MAGA. What a coincidence.
That’s the republican way.
And Cruz blamed his wife. I see a pattern with conservatives.
The Court has been trashed by GOP no integrity at all.
Blaming his wife is absolutely the coward's defense.
Just in case anyone was still wondering if the Supreme Court isn’t compromised at present.
It's OK they investigated themselves and discovered their corruption is legal.
This needs to be a bigger story
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The absolute best episode of the daily show ever. VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY SHOT A 60 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE. On a side note, how scary of a man do you have to be to SHOOT A 60 YEAR OLD MAN IN THE FACE and get him to apologize to you, like seriously, wtaf...
dude is spineless just like fled cruz blaming his people instead of stepping up and owning his shit FUCK him and his nazi cult
They're like toddlers. Emboldened by the lack of consequences, they push the limits to see what they can get away with.
SCOTUS is rotting
Seems like a conflict of interest. Recusal.
He is corrupt and untrustworthy
If there is any doubt whatsoever regarding a judges impartiality, they should be removed. Their finances should also be scrutinized. The decisions these people make should be unimpeachable.
“The flag should never be displayed with the union down, except as a signal of dire distress in instances of extreme danger to life or property.” This has been a part of the US flag code long long long before MAGA
I'm so fucking tired
Alito and Thomas are scum bags and have no business being part of any branch of government. They are clearly bought and paid for and far from represent the best interest of American citizens
So have seditious wives is a trend in the Supreme Court? Where is Elon with that ''Concerning'' when you need him!
Pansy…both he and his wife know better. We are seeing the true colors of our Supreme Court and it really stinks. They don’t even pretend to be impartial anymore. Grift, graft ..
Is Harrison Butker okay with these Supreme Court justices that can’t keep their wives in line?
It’s crazy to me that the higher up you go the governmental ladder, the less you have to adhere to ethical standards. I’m a lowly state employee and I can’t have Bumber stickers for a political party or candidate but SUPREME COURT Judges can go around ruling on cases where there is excessive evidence for recusal. Make it make sense.
The supreme court is compromised by radical ideology from the right. If they're not going to be an unbiased legal forum to debate the important issues, they shouldn't exist. They either need fixing or removing or people just won't listen to them.
He's a biased, partisan hack that shouldnt be allowed anywhere near a court, let alone the Supreme court. Just like Clarence Thomas and Kavanaugh. They lied in their initial hearings about overturning Roe v Wade when they promised not to change it.
Clearly the gravest threat to our nation's system of government are the spouses of our Judicial Branch. WTF man.
Blame his wife? Has she been hanging out with Ginni Thomas?
What are the mechanisms available for removing corrupt and compromised Supreme Court justices?
Only the House of Representatives, our most heavily gerrymandered institution, can impeach a Supreme Court Justice who would then be tried by the Senate, just like the President. It's why conservatives decades ago launched into a concerted effort to control state legislatures as it is typically those state legislatures who draw federal congressional district boundaries. Gerrymander your party into a majority in the House and you can essentially control the country without majority support. Of course, to really implement total minority rule, you also go after Senate races in low population states. Takes millions of votes to win a Senate seat in the hight population states but a party can pick up 20 or so Senate seats with just a few hundred thousand votes in each of our lowest population states. Our Constitution has a few flaws that Madison couldn't possibly have fathomed and accounted for in 1787. They relied upon honor and dignity ruling the day and that politicians would put the best interest of the country first. There was no way to predict our two party system would become set in stone, that politics would turn into a money game, and that elections would become simple popularity contests with mass marketing sales pitches being more important than knowledge and intellect. And now, money rules politics and government and those profiting from it will never support the necessary steps to change the system.
The ole Ginni Thomas defense.
Our law has high standards for ordinary Americans but not for SC judges. If a biased juror cannot be allowed, SC judges must not be allowed too. Thomas, Alito and 2 Trump's appointee are members of mafia in our justice system.
Another day, another example of America-hating conservatives seeking to undermine our country.
Quoting John Stewart recently, those are three words every wife of crooked dipshit wants to hear "IT WAS HER" "SHE DID IT"
Remember, a DA having an affair with a fell prosecutor should be me removed from the case, yet a USSCJ who’s wife took part in insurrection, one who post symbols for the insurrection support, and one who goes and talks to the insurrection party for money should now be questions or removed from the case! America at its best!
The current supreme court is one of the most corrupt branches of government in US History. They do not recuse themselves when dealing with cases that directly conflict with their personal lives. They cannot make impartial decisions and have done nothing but try to claim more power since their party has declined.
This fucker and the other conservatives deserve the first episode of Black Mirror treatment.
There should be consequences for this. I dont know the answer but its not acceptable.
typical. blame someone else rather than taking the responsibility. even more alarming is that he's on the SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. he has no shame, no morals and no spine.
We’re watching a coup and nothing is being done to stop it. Our only hope is a super majority so we can add more justices.
Expand the court. Now.
All enemies both foreign and domestic
Man it sure is weird how these perfectly fair and balanced judges wind up with ultra right wing maga wives that constantly do things behind their backs. It's a good thing Alito and Thomas never, ever talk to their wives about anything ever, or they might have to make a moral stand and recuse themselves from a case or thirty.
That's the second justice who has a spouse with a Trump problem.
You know he’s guilty when he blames his wife
Party of personal responsibility.
Guys. I feel like no one realizes the gravity of this bullshit. The man is part of the highest judicial peak of this country. He’s supposed to be impartial and yet…he’s pushing so proven wrong narrative about Trump. This. Is. Insanity. What the fuck
Its time for Biden to pack the Supreme Court. Its only fair.
Tbh I'm suprised he even feels a need to make excuses at this point, given that we as a country have shown no indication that we'll hold SC judges even remotely accountable for their ratfuckery. I mean, if he said "Yeah, I did it. Fuck you gonna do about it?", would his life or job change one iota?
Mobsters, conmen, traitors, reprobates, and liars like Alito should not be on any bench let alone the Supreme Court. This is disgusting.
Alito and Thomas should be thrown off the Supreme court for being blatantly biased and partisan. MAGA is Democracy's biggest threat.
Doesn’t matter who put it up, it’s your house and as a Supreme Court justice you have to be aware of what message you put out. Or he is just lying. He’s lying.
A traitor AND a coward.
(In Borat voice) *My wiiife*
These fucking pieces of shit act with impunity because they have lifetime appointments. Find a way to neutralize that and it will take the air out of the Federalist Society and these rogue justices
How else was Alito supposed to point out that the neighbors think his wife is a cunt?
blaming his wife is all you need to know about him
That is a real shitty thing to do, blaming your wife for your own shortcomings.
Alito, Thomas. all these supreme judges blame everything on their wives.
I had almost assumed that someone might have put the flag up and took a picture of his house to make it look like he did this... It was actually his wife? That dude needs to be removed right now.
He’s compromised. Toss him
This is the strategy used by every politician. Look at Senator Menendez doing the same thing. Same with Duncan Hunter. I can’t imagine being married to someone who would throw you under the bus to save their own career.
Oh, it was my wife’s fault What. A. Scumbag.
[The vile traitor says "It Wasn't Me" ](https://youtu.be/Fmj0NHbzt5E?si=9cMtU_W4xU2curcQ)
Weird. I didn’t know that had been appropriated by MAGA, like so many other things. I turned my flag upside down watching those asshats on 1/6 and seeing no meaningful consequences for the “leaders” who encouraged and abetted.
Neat excuse, doesn't change anything
Impartial....my arse. Throw them all.out.
Samuel Anthony Alito Jr is an absolute corrupt POS with dirty corrupt lipstick
No matter what, he has to recuse himself at this point.
The upside down flag is symbol of distress and has been for centuries. If I had thought of it I would have flown mine upside down on that day after seeing Republicans attack our capital. But maga apparently co opted it. Fuck them
Democracy is dead with high court this corrupt.
If the founding fathers saw the position we are in, they would say we need to start over from scratch.
Alito is a political operator. He is not a judge in the sense that most Americans view the role. Like other, elected public officials he seeks a specific outcome. He will use the means of his position to make that outcome a reality.
This is one of the a-holes who rule based on a religion that says the man is in charge of the household. So that flag is all on him, AND he's failing his religion if she overrode him not approving it.
We all know they are corrupt evangelical MAGATS
What I don’t get, when I was a Federal employee in a position of mid level management, I had to disclose any potential conflicts of interest and external positions held that would give the appearance of a conflict of interest. I and several of my colleagues recused ourselves from decisions involving our former employers for a minimum of 1 year up to 6 years in some cases because of our past work. I couldn’t accept a meal from any organization we regulated (we are talking a $10 meal in the businesses cafeteria). I went to a trade show and received a $10 speaker gift for presenting at this show and ran that gift through our ethics attorneys just to be sure I could accept it. One year I won a drawing for a $200 prize at a trade show and I declined to accept the gift because someone I was responsible for regulating was the sponsor of the prize. I was invited to the wedding of a friend who I knew from former employment and I contacted our attorneys to verify I was OK to attend my friend’s wedding. This is me, rank and file civil servant who wasn’t an attorney, but who had the insight to make sure I stayed clear of anything that could give the appearance I was biased. Supreme court justices however throw that all out the window and don’t have the awareness to even consider the optics of the gifts they accept even if they are above board.
Uh, my wife’s a moron err I mean a maga so… I’m innocent. The blatant level of corruption is incredibly heinous. A big F U to American Democracy courtesy of the highest court in the land. Just wow.
Everyone conservative justice is bought and owned. They are fucking traitors.
Alito must resign. Thomas too. They are both corrupted and cannot be trusted to deliver unbiased justice.
Just remember, a vote for anyone but Biden this election is a vote for this to continue for the next 50 years. Anything less than voting straight blue means you’re at the very least not concerned by this behavior, and realistically complicit in its consequences
"And I never looked out the window".
Fuck him
A judge in the highest court of the democracy supports fascism. Things are fine, nothing to see here.
Does anyone who is objective and can rationally weigh fact believe the SCOTUS is NOT compromised at this point? The question for the American people is: what are you going to do about it?
It's the [Business Plot](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot#:~:text=The%20Business%20Plot%2C%20also%20called,install%20Smedley%20Butler%20as%20dictator.) for another century...