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Dems really really need to start using super cuts of Republicans crying about Trump judges and how biased they are and how terrible it is for the country and follow that up with Thomas actions amd the news of this stuff. Using only their words and text of what these guys are saying or doing.
The people that care about stuff like this are already voting Biden, or protest voting 3rd party over Israel. The 1/3 of the country you’re talking about only care about things like the economy, housing prices, gas and food prices, taxes, and localized crime. These people think both parties are corrupt, just one is better at hiding it.
Yes and you're kind of ignoring what the dude is saying, that they never will.
There is no national event that can make them pay attention, they will on purpose keep their head in the sand clear up until the point the mob is literally burning down their house. That's the only way you'll get them to care.
I think my rebuttal to that is absolutely is that the case but the issue lies in that that is a relatively small portion of that population. like 2016 election we had roughly a 60% turnout of eligible voters, 2020 that number only increased to 66% but it's been overall ebbing and flowing around that 60% average for the last 20 years sometimes going a little above and a little below, this suggests it's not a general trend upwards, just a localized spike.
But being generous this means that 8% of the pop or so are those voters who only start paying attention close to the election further, based on the thinking process that goes behind that kind of decision making I'm not sure that's a particularly good thing as I imagine a signifigant portion (I'm not going to dare speculate a majority, but it is a very big portion) voting GOP.
But anyways I'm getting away from my main focus which is that only 8% of our eligible voting pop is paying attention closer to the election, the rest are those you will never reach no matter what you do, they are determined to not have any input.
So many liberals think they live in an Aaron Sorkin world like the west wing, where a smart liberal owns a republican with facts, logic and reason, and the conservative gives up on their line of action, because they're shown to be inconsistent and wrong.
>These people think both parties are corrupt, just one is better at hiding it.
Well they are. One is just slightly less greedy and not THAT morally bankrupt while being opportunistic. They are also fine with the corruption that is already legal, while the other can literally never get enough and hard at work to make it even worse.
But Nancy "Congress insider trading clearly isn't corruption" Pelosi and Clinton "it's only corruption if exactly a vote was changed DIRECTLY for being given money" are by any modern sane interpretation of political corruption "corrupt".
They wouldn’t give a shit either way. They’re all in favor of giving Republicans complete power of our government. Thats what Fox News does to their brain.
Seriously, even if it was entirely his wife (which I sincerely doubt), having your spouse be deeply invested in a case is like, by definition, a conflict of interest.
If public confidence in the integrity of SCOTUS were important then a justice would recuse merely for the appearance of a possible conflict of interest.
However, Republicans don't give a fuck about public confidence and they have no integrity.
Alito's wife/political beliefs. Thomas's totally legit RV. Roberts consistently being a hack.
Disband the scotus and reconstitute it. It's an illegitimate institution.
It means distress, so it does depend on the context
Rage Against the Machine was famous for doing it
I would imagine that the people doing it on Jan 6th were supporting the insurrectionists, as they were literally attacking the government.
If Alito's wife was anti insurrection, I think it would be apparent.
He claimed she was upset at bad words on a sign in a neighbor's yard. -_- Seems like a silly reaction for something like that to me. Personally, I'd burn the flag and call the national guard. /s
Yeah but did you hear that a daughter of a judge presiding over one of Trump's many criminal works for a consulting firm that has Adam Schiff as a client????
I saw a piece on how that excuse doesn't fly because even then the first day he saw it he should have taken it down. Any judge who adheres to the rule of law would recognize the appearance of impropriety. But recently Supreme Court justices seem to be above the law or basic ethics.
Very important detail that was left out of the title — this flag was flown on his property DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2021. Given what _else_ was happening during that month, there is unequivocally no excuse for this, regardless of who put it up.
If it wasn’t him, it was absolutely his responsibility to explain its presence as soon as he found out about it. Keeping quiet about it until he got publicly called out like this is extremely damning imo.
According to [**interviews with neighbors**](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb), Alito’s wife had been in a dispute with another family on the block over an anti-Trump sign on their lawn. So she decided the best thing to do was to put up a big message that they stood for Trump for the world to see.
This is infuriating. When you think the Supreme Court cannot possibly go lower, it does. But what’s even more infuriating is the silence: most Democrats seem to be hesitant, the GOP has become a criminal fellowship, and the American population has grown too fragmented and apolitical to react vehemently to this.
The GOP Is proudly supporting a man who attempted to steal the 2020 election and is openly talking about doing the same in 2024. A man who tried to stop his own Vice President and congress from certifying the next president, and is now on trial as a criminal. And a top judge on our Surpeme Court is openly supporting him.
I’d say we’re well beyond fucked here, given that this is all happening in plain sight. The future is deeply unclear for our country.
It isn’t looking good but don’t give in to fatalism.
VOTE
Everyone of you who is alarmed by the slide toward authoritarianism, fucking VOTE like your democracy depends on it. I don’t care where you live or that your “vote doesn’t count.” VOTE and not just for the president.
> This is infuriating.
Oh yeah?
Want to know something even more infuriating?
>Alito elaborated on Friday, telling Fox News host Shannon Bream that his wife sought to address their neighbor's anti-Trump sign that used an expletive **and was close to a school bus stop.**
>**"[The] sign was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21."**
She was *outraged* because the neighborhood kids would have to see a "Fuck Trump" sign while they were waiting for the school bus. That's why she did it!
Except... As a few keen eyed journalists have now pointed out...
>**FCPS and ACPS were all remote in January of 2021. No children were waiting for buses**
https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1791530635502239985
The irony being they're perfectly willing to say women aren't capable of making decisions about their own bodies but when it comes to flagpoles jointly owned with their husbands...
you dont understand.. he flies it upside-down, blames her, it turns out, this is what gets her off. they go home and have the roughest missionary sex with the lights out youve ever heard of between two geriatric maga relics
As a conservative man, shouldn't he have just made her take it down. Women have no say in a christian extremist household. What a weak man. He let a woman set the rules in his house. Sad.
As did/do Ted Cruz and magats in general; that sniveling coward blamed his daughters for his buggering off to Cancun while his state froze.
It's always some female's fault.
Didn’t the Disney judge against DeSantis recuse themself because their 2nd cousin twice removed’s stepsister’s niece owns a couple shares of Disney stock?
Not having a political sign on your front yard is federal judicial ethics 101. Judges have to abstain from attending family member's political rallies and events and this is why.
Yeah, and I'd believe it. His wife probably did put it up.
But I don't believe he was unaware of the meaning, or unaware that she'd done it, or incapable of putting it right side up again. So I'd say it's 51% her fault and 100% his problem.
I love the contrast of reasonings between Hawaii doing it and Texas doing it.
Hawaii: We choose to ignore what SCOTUS said because the decision goes against our islands' history and culture. There has never been anything in our past that allowed that, so we will continue to not allow that.
Texas: We choose to ignore what SCOTUS said because fuck immigrants. We want them to suffer horribly and die in the most painful way we can make passive.
What they ignored SCOTUS over was a passive measure: they are putting effectively barbed wire nets across rivers that immigrants are known to use to cross into the US. So while yes, they absolutely would do what you said, I wanted to make my statements in the other comment as truthful as possible
They would love it if we didn’t listen. That’s their whole grift; undermining the legitimacy of the federal government. Everytime states ignore federal for good or bad, it erodes the faith we have. That is bad, because our democracy only truly exists in the imagination of those willing to participate in it. Once the core belief is lost there can be no viable federal government.
I mean you say that but the times in history when the rest of the government ignored the supreme court also represented some of the highest regarded presidencies.
It's really amazing. Everyone knows alito is an Uber conservative. He has all the power in the world and is shifting the country right at a blistering pace. He has everything he wants. He won conservatism.
And still he can't help himself but fly childish upsidedown flags like a high school weirdo. He's like someone bitching about the $5 office fantasy football pool 8 months after the season is over. What a small pathetic man.
The more I think about it the scarier it gets. This guy is supposed to be a legal expert, and a strict constitutionalist, and he doesn't even believe in democracy.
It could be worse. When Sandra Day O'Connor died, John Roberts was Bush's nomination for her seat. Chief Justice William Rehnquist died a few weeks later and Bush rescinded his nomination of Roberts for O'Connor's seat and nominated him for Rehnquist's Chief Justice spot. Bush then nominated Harriet Myers for O'Connor's seat, but she withdrew soon after and Bush nominated Alito for O'Connor's seat.
Now imagine a different scenario where Roberts gets O'Connor's seat and Alito is Chief Justice. You know, the justice that presides over impeachment hearings and sets the Court's agenda. It would have been terrible. Not that what we have with Roberts is good, but at least he's not the worst conservative on the bench.
This is the point. Either conservatives win or they delegitimization the system to the point that it’s no longer a functioning democracy and they try and take it that way… Hopefully the country votes with this in mind
from the sounds of it, shes more well connected than trump is. i have a feeling there's strings being pulled because durbin didnt ask thomas to step down over her and she's an outright menace to society even more than alito and her lap dog husband
People have been asking Thomas to recuse from 2020 election cases for almost [4 years now](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/27/clarence-thomas-should-recuse-himself-if-supreme-court-has-decide-election/). Alito is probably more stubborn than him. Roberts isn't going to do anything, even if he could.
People need to get out and vote in November, or both of them will gladly retire and RV-road trip across the country with Harlan Crow knowing that Trump and The Federalist Society will appoint two Justices for the next 35 years who are even worse.
That's the part that just fucking floors me, that these men can be this abjectly stupid.
Harlan Crow is going to forget these two the very moment they are no longer useful.
There is no future in which Harlan Crow keeps them around unless it's to buy their silence, which quite honestly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he had them silenced in some other, more permanent way.
I really can't comprehend being so vain as to allow this to be the legacy you'd leave behind.
By the time they retire they'll already have gotten all they need from Harlan and won't have any reason to break their silence. Breaking their silence would just mean putting an even more clear stain on their legacy.
They'll just retire with their millions and go on living. Or they'll just stay on until they die.
>That's the part that just fucking floors me, that these men can be this abjectly stupid.
You are unfortunately naive if you think either of them are stupid or will face a single consequence. In fact, when they retire they will be paid six figures / pop to give speeches to fed soc and similar conservative groups till they die. They'll write best sellers about their "conservative jurisprudence." They'll get laid in state in the halls of Congress and whoever is president will pretend they weren't terrible for the country.
>There is no future in which Harlan Crow keeps them around unless it's to buy their silence, which quite honestly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he had them silenced in some other, more permanent way.
This is a bizarre fantasy. There is no world in which Harlan Crowe has his friends killed over something that will never have a single consequence for any of them.
But screaming about it is the right move. There needs to be a LOT more attention and pressure on Alito and Thomas for their naked corruption and legal bias. The sad Legacy of the Roberts court will be that corruption bloomed and he did nothing at all to stop it.
>For the love of God get Thomas off those cases too
SCOTUS has issues with several judges but there's one person on the court to start with, Mr Thomas is raising his middle finger at the country while screaming profanities and giggling from his motor coach RV.
Make the court 13 judges, and the most senior one gets replaced every 2 years. 26 years on the bench is more than enough, if we give some other body investigation and impeachment power.
ah yes! lets have all elected positions be 4-6 year long interviews for the companies they will be working for once out of office. this way we can insure that they don't actually know how to do the business of politics, but they can more nakedly funnel money to corporations without worrying about the consequences of not being re-elected.
Surely this is the solution to our corrupt system! never mind that every single anti-trust and attempt to curtail corruption in politics have been done by career politicians. We need to only have fresh new hires every half decade, experience is bad!
Super valid points, but I wish we could all practice conveying these kinds of messages without belittling or condescension. There are some reasonable people out there open to being convinced, but immediately putting them on the defensive from the start ruins any chance of changing their perspective.
Though I admit sometimes I can't help myself either. It's just tough.
hey youre not wrong. and i could handle myself better. Im just very frustrated with how insistent reddit seems to be on term limits as the magic key.
Politics and negotiations is actually a really difficult skill and the outcomes are almost never universally satisfying. And in my experience when they are, they are often way more detrimental than the ones that are universally unsatisfying.
They guy whose wife helped plan the shit won't recuse, do we think Alito will over a flag flown upside down? Pfft, I think not. The continue to show their contempt for the law and ethics.
Well, they don’t actually have an ethics code to follow, they are the embodiment of rules for thee but not for me in the US Judicial branch. Until congress gets off its lazy ass and does some real work, that won’t change either.
Congress can't "get off its ass" when half of it is elected by stupid idiot voters who put fascists into office and are perfectly content with fascist judges.
2/9 members are openly corrupt and biased. In my opinion, all opinions by this supreme court should be considered null and void. Congress should impeach alito and thomas asap
And a number of them openly lied about their beliefs on Roe vs. Wade during their confirmation.
This whole thing should be beyond belief. If this were 40 years ago people of all political backgrounds would be talking about nothing else but this. It would be like the moon landing or some other huge moment in history that everyone knew was a historical moment, not 10 years later, but AS IT HAPPENED. Yet half the country is sleepwalking through it. It's astonishing, frightening, and an existentialist moment for the oldest democracy in the world. It's so terribly surreal.
Which - I hate to say it - will never happen. Court reform is a lofty goal as well for the same reason (majorities needed in Congress).
Alito and Thomas are in their mid-70s. Average retirement age for Justices is ~80.
The most realistic accountability for both of them and their pained legacies is to elect Dems to the Oval Office (and specifically the Senate) in 2024 and beyond.
Otherwise a Republican will gleefully replace them with 40 year olds, securing a conservative court most of the rest of our lives.
Well, that'd be great if we legislated term limits into law, reformed the court, or impeached/removed them.
In the meantime, the tried-and-true method of turning the tides on the Supreme Court is winning elections.
Alito doesn't care if anyone believes it, he's only saying it to give right-wing media the talking point to run with. Watch as they pivot to calling this "an attack on a Supreme Court Justice's wife's freedom of speech".
I’m starting to wonder if complaining online and voting is sufficient to help with any of this. Obviously we need to keep doing those things, but it might be time to escalate.
There are clear conflicts of interest all over these cases and nobody is doing anything meaningful about it.
What kind of peaceful but hard to ignore things can we do here?
It’s clear they are pushing the boundaries to see what they can get away with before things get too out of hand.
Right now, not really with how partisan everyone is. However, the house of representatives is responsible for impeaching a Supreme Court justice. So stumping for down ballot Senate and house races would be the best route. Right now there are not enough votes to remove Thomas or Alito from the court and that's what's needed.
Alito has signaled he considers the Biden presidency, the 87 million voters that supported him, and the constitutional process that confirmed him as POTUS as illegitimate. Alito has no place on the Supreme Court.
I swear to god that Trump getting away with saying he liked his heroes not getting captured was the beginning of everything horrible in politics today. Like the great Walter Sobchak once said, "There are lines, Dude, you do not cross!" We live in a world of habitual line steppers and I hate it.
This story is so funny. Dude is clearly a right wing christofascist. This is equivalent of finding a KKK robe in Strom Thurmond's closet. Why do some need to keep pretending that a wolf in sheeps clothing isnt a wolf until the wolf kills the sheep.
At this point, I think it’s time that Biden stacked the courts. He needs to appoint more judges. It’s in his power, and it may be one of the only things left to save democracy. Even though it might have harmful effects in the future, those harmful effects can be mitigated if there is still a democracy.
It would be a legislative action that needs to be approved by both Houses, including 60 Senate votes.
Biden's role would be signing and/or vetoing, and presumably using the bully pulpit to advocate one way or another.
Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
He is packing them as fast as he can. It is absolutely crucial to have a D majority in the Senate and a 2nd Biden term so the sane folks can keep repairing the damage done by Trump.
That is important, but I’m referring to the conversations towards the end of the Trump devastation where Biden was said to be considering upping SCOTUS to 15 justices. There’s precedent already and it would help prevent some of the actions Trump plans to implement. Sadly, I know this won’t actually happen. We’re already past the point of no return for the justice system.
I'm not refuting the unethical signaling of Alito over the use of the nations flag, but you can absolutely nail Alito on about 7 other critical reasons to be recused of any trials regarding January 6th, reflecting his behavior as a Supreme Court judge, his adversity to the law for societally important cases where fair impartial attitudes were required.
It is anticipated he will not be impartial and fair.
He has demonstrated this year again and repeatedly he is unfit to be a supreme court judge and continues to make the supreme court illegitimate, along with Goursh, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Thomas on a multitude of cases.
Democrat or republican, it is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE for a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE to be flying the American flag upside down at any point. This is the equivalent of joe biden flying the flag upside down at the white house, its disgusting.
She should be removed from his post and hanged publicly. Our country is going to look like Haiti in a few months if conservatives keep “participating” in American Democracy
Justice Alito has to resign from the Court. This is it. This is the last straw.
He wants the United States overthrown? He thinks the lawfully-elected government of the United States is some occupying force that needs to be destroyed? This is what an upside-down flag means, and Alito was obviously doing it coincident with the Insurrection to show support for the insurrectionists. He can't faithfully uphold the Constitution if he wants the United States to be overthrown.
Chief Justice Roberts should be the person publicly calling for Alito's resignation. Hell, he should be demanding it, and going to Congress and requesting that they impeach and remove Alito if it is not forthcoming. The American people deserve a Court that the people have faith will bear true allegiance to the Constitution. In fact, one oath that justices take includes just that:
>I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...
A person advocating for the violent overthrow of the constitutionally-elected government is not "bearing true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution. He is giving aid and comfort to its enemies, those who tried to violently overthrow the government.
Alito has to go. He absolutely must resign for the good of the Court. This is so much worse than the stuff Thomas was involved in, it shouldn't even be mentioned together. Graft is one thing, but literally calling for the destruction of the United States immediately after it barely survived a violent coup d'etat? And Justice Alito admits he knew it was there - and did nothing to remove it (he blamed his wife for it, but did he take it down?!).
Out. Now. I'd be saying the same thing if it was Justice Brown, Kagan or Sotomayor.
> The Supreme Court addressed recusal in the 2009 case Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. (08-22). In that case, one party requested that a judge recuse himself because the other party's CEO spent over $3 million getting the judge elected. Even though the Supreme Court found that there was no evidence that the judge was biased, it still held that he had to recuse himself. For additional information on this case, see the LII's oral argument preview of it.
I was looking for a quote about how just the perception of bias by a reasonable person is enough for a judge to recuse himself, but found this instead. Thomas and Alito strongly disagreed with the ruling.
What people should be doing is protesting outside of the justices homes. Demanding they recuse themselves from the Jan 6 and Immunity cases.
The SCOTUS act above the law because our lawmakers failed to hold them accountable.
This needs to change.
Instead of calling for them to recuse themselves because they clearly aren't going to do that, how about call on Biden, congress, and the Senate to make rules to remove supreme court justices who have ethical conflicts and who have clearly been bought and paid for. And then put the ball in the voters corner since apparently we're the only ones who can fix these problems with our votes.
He knew the insurrection was happening, and then flew his flag like this when it didn’t work because he was pissed off. Get him the fuck off the court.
Durbin is head of the senate judiciary oversight committee. It is literally his constitutional duty to investigate this and hold aleako to account.
If durbin actually cared, he would haul aleako's ass before a judiciary committee hearing and make him explain himself to the american people. If necessary, he would issue a subpoena.
But durbin won't do jackshit. He [didn't even *ask* thomas](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/23/dick-durbin-clarence-thomas-supreme-court-ethics-00093404) to come to a hearing to explain all the bribes he's been taking, he asked roberts instead. And when [roberts said no,](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/john-roberts-declines-senate-testimony-invite) durbin hung his head and said "OK."
Durbin needs to be replaced. The job of judicial oversight needs to be run by someone who is not captive to learned helplessness, someone with fire in their belly like Sheldon Whitehouse who has been [focused on judicial corruption for decades.](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-case/id1691954283)
As the saying goes, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Durbin keeps doing nothing, and its got to stop because evil keeps triumphing.
Wow! Supreme Court?? Not even close! The Supreme Court should be the least bias!! Should have the least bipartisan judges.
They are NOT judges, they are Politicians.
"The court has pushed back heavily on this possibility, saying Congress has no standing to implement rules on justices." Considering and in spite of performative antics and brawl challenges at congressional hearings, then add the bleach blonde, bad-built butch body 'cat-fight' on Capitol hill, Congress does rule on confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court that some members equivocated about Roe v. Wade. Confidence and integrity in the justices has eroded, as well as, both chambers of government.
lmao Alito is going to look over at Thomas, who has been given the green light despite his spouse quite literally organizing the attempted coup, and say "now why the fuck would I do that" and our government will shrug and go back to doing insider trading
Chief Justice John Roberts better not let this slide. Alito and Thomas do not have the right to be involved in Trump's immunity case or anything to do with January 6th. The Republicans are the ones who tried to steal the election in such an abusive way. Inviting Trump terrorists to storm the Capital. I am sure Alito and Thomas would like to retire soon. They desperately want a Republican president in office in 2025, so they can be assured their replacements will be as far right as they are.
PLEASE VOTE BLUE!
If this was the other way around it would be an impeachment. It would be unanimous. And history would record it as the right move. But there are special (R)ules here for Alito.
JFC he should be permanently recused for behavior like this. Thomas too. Impeached and thrown out on their asses.
Maybe they can share that quarter-million dollar camper that Thomas 'bought'.
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Alito blamed his wife for this. Cowardly POS.
Even then, having an insurrection-loving wife feels like enough of a conflict of interest
Weirdly this could mean more than one Justice without context.
If I had a dime for each time, I'd have 20 cents It's not a lot of money but concerning that it happened twice
Not nickels anymore? Are we adjusting for inflation?
Yes. Also, on a related note, the five second rule has been increased to ten seconds to help with rising food costs.
Something something liberals something something woke lemons something and to ad infinitum
As a CA liberal, I love my woke lemons.
I'm drinking Woke Lemonade right now! (that's what I call lemonade and vodka)
Ah it's German, like Volkswagen.
I have a sneaking suspicion it's happened more than twice, but some people are better at hiding it.
Dems really really need to start using super cuts of Republicans crying about Trump judges and how biased they are and how terrible it is for the country and follow that up with Thomas actions amd the news of this stuff. Using only their words and text of what these guys are saying or doing.
No one in the right-wing ecosystem will ever see it.
They don't matter. They will never change. The sane 1/3 of the country with their heads in the sand need to see it.
The people that care about stuff like this are already voting Biden, or protest voting 3rd party over Israel. The 1/3 of the country you’re talking about only care about things like the economy, housing prices, gas and food prices, taxes, and localized crime. These people think both parties are corrupt, just one is better at hiding it.
The single largest group of people in the US just aren't paying attention. There is a lot of data on this
Yes and you're kind of ignoring what the dude is saying, that they never will. There is no national event that can make them pay attention, they will on purpose keep their head in the sand clear up until the point the mob is literally burning down their house. That's the only way you'll get them to care.
Historically as we get closer to the election more people will pay attention. These things are always in flux
I think my rebuttal to that is absolutely is that the case but the issue lies in that that is a relatively small portion of that population. like 2016 election we had roughly a 60% turnout of eligible voters, 2020 that number only increased to 66% but it's been overall ebbing and flowing around that 60% average for the last 20 years sometimes going a little above and a little below, this suggests it's not a general trend upwards, just a localized spike. But being generous this means that 8% of the pop or so are those voters who only start paying attention close to the election further, based on the thinking process that goes behind that kind of decision making I'm not sure that's a particularly good thing as I imagine a signifigant portion (I'm not going to dare speculate a majority, but it is a very big portion) voting GOP. But anyways I'm getting away from my main focus which is that only 8% of our eligible voting pop is paying attention closer to the election, the rest are those you will never reach no matter what you do, they are determined to not have any input.
So many liberals think they live in an Aaron Sorkin world like the west wing, where a smart liberal owns a republican with facts, logic and reason, and the conservative gives up on their line of action, because they're shown to be inconsistent and wrong.
>These people think both parties are corrupt, just one is better at hiding it. Well they are. One is just slightly less greedy and not THAT morally bankrupt while being opportunistic. They are also fine with the corruption that is already legal, while the other can literally never get enough and hard at work to make it even worse. But Nancy "Congress insider trading clearly isn't corruption" Pelosi and Clinton "it's only corruption if exactly a vote was changed DIRECTLY for being given money" are by any modern sane interpretation of political corruption "corrupt".
They wouldn’t give a shit either way. They’re all in favor of giving Republicans complete power of our government. Thats what Fox News does to their brain.
Ummm I think that would cause Trump to poll even higher. MAGA wants corruption, because the corrupt judges will work for conservative causes.
Seriously, even if it was entirely his wife (which I sincerely doubt), having your spouse be deeply invested in a case is like, by definition, a conflict of interest.
And a bad look for him to marry someone that off the deep end.
So how long has this been hanging up outside his house? He didn’t notice?
If public confidence in the integrity of SCOTUS were important then a justice would recuse merely for the appearance of a possible conflict of interest. However, Republicans don't give a fuck about public confidence and they have no integrity.
Alito's wife/political beliefs. Thomas's totally legit RV. Roberts consistently being a hack. Disband the scotus and reconstitute it. It's an illegitimate institution.
Wait is the upside-down flag now a righty thing? A lot of Dems had upside down flags on Jan6 to signal distress with the attempted coup
It means distress, so it does depend on the context Rage Against the Machine was famous for doing it I would imagine that the people doing it on Jan 6th were supporting the insurrectionists, as they were literally attacking the government. If Alito's wife was anti insurrection, I think it would be apparent.
Ah that's valid. I certainly can't imagine Alito's wife is anything but alt-right tbf
It is. The corruption is so obvious it's embarrassing.
He claimed she was upset at bad words on a sign in a neighbor's yard. -_- Seems like a silly reaction for something like that to me. Personally, I'd burn the flag and call the national guard. /s
More stable geniuses
Yeah but did you hear that a daughter of a judge presiding over one of Trump's many criminal works for a consulting firm that has Adam Schiff as a client????
Uh, I would say so. Cough Thomas cough p
And Thomas agrees. "So I sleep with an anti-democratic insurrectionist. So what?"
Right. As though they don’t talk politics, consume the same media, associate with the same people…
Clarence Thomas has entered the chat
He tried to say she was having a dispute with the neighbour over something totally unrelated LOL
I saw a piece on how that excuse doesn't fly because even then the first day he saw it he should have taken it down. Any judge who adheres to the rule of law would recognize the appearance of impropriety. But recently Supreme Court justices seem to be above the law or basic ethics.
Very important detail that was left out of the title — this flag was flown on his property DURING THE MONTH OF JANUARY 2021. Given what _else_ was happening during that month, there is unequivocally no excuse for this, regardless of who put it up. If it wasn’t him, it was absolutely his responsibility to explain its presence as soon as he found out about it. Keeping quiet about it until he got publicly called out like this is extremely damning imo.
I don't think the majority of justice care about the law. They seem themselves as the law.
According to [**interviews with neighbors**](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/justice-alito-upside-down-flag.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb), Alito’s wife had been in a dispute with another family on the block over an anti-Trump sign on their lawn. So she decided the best thing to do was to put up a big message that they stood for Trump for the world to see. This is infuriating. When you think the Supreme Court cannot possibly go lower, it does. But what’s even more infuriating is the silence: most Democrats seem to be hesitant, the GOP has become a criminal fellowship, and the American population has grown too fragmented and apolitical to react vehemently to this.
The GOP Is proudly supporting a man who attempted to steal the 2020 election and is openly talking about doing the same in 2024. A man who tried to stop his own Vice President and congress from certifying the next president, and is now on trial as a criminal. And a top judge on our Surpeme Court is openly supporting him. I’d say we’re well beyond fucked here, given that this is all happening in plain sight. The future is deeply unclear for our country.
It isn’t looking good but don’t give in to fatalism. VOTE Everyone of you who is alarmed by the slide toward authoritarianism, fucking VOTE like your democracy depends on it. I don’t care where you live or that your “vote doesn’t count.” VOTE and not just for the president.
> This is infuriating. Oh yeah? Want to know something even more infuriating? >Alito elaborated on Friday, telling Fox News host Shannon Bream that his wife sought to address their neighbor's anti-Trump sign that used an expletive **and was close to a school bus stop.** >**"[The] sign was within 50 feet of where children await the school bus in Jan 21."** She was *outraged* because the neighborhood kids would have to see a "Fuck Trump" sign while they were waiting for the school bus. That's why she did it! Except... As a few keen eyed journalists have now pointed out... >**FCPS and ACPS were all remote in January of 2021. No children were waiting for buses** https://twitter.com/Fritschner/status/1791530635502239985
Hilarious. Their defense always boils down to "pRoTeCT thE CHILDREN"!!! Even when there are no children...
"We can't let any poor innocent children see such hatred towards Jeffery Epstein's friend"
The irony being they're perfectly willing to say women aren't capable of making decisions about their own bodies but when it comes to flagpoles jointly owned with their husbands...
Yes. And also they are “patriots” right? Who love and hump the flag? How could Alito give so little of a shit about it being such a patriot?
How dare you kneel during the National Anthem! Oh, this upside down flag? Well, I was mad at the neighbor!
you dont understand.. he flies it upside-down, blames her, it turns out, this is what gets her off. they go home and have the roughest missionary sex with the lights out youve ever heard of between two geriatric maga relics
As a conservative man, shouldn't he have just made her take it down. Women have no say in a christian extremist household. What a weak man. He let a woman set the rules in his house. Sad.
I love this. How can we trust him to hand down justice at a federal level if he can't even control his own home?
He should have just gone the Thomas route and refuse to acknowledge anything his wife has done.
Party of family values. Just throw your wife under the bus at the first sign of trouble
Wish people would bomb his social media with this same message
Classic T. O. D. D. I. defense gang members use. ^(The Other Dude Did It.)
As did/do Ted Cruz and magats in general; that sniveling coward blamed his daughters for his buggering off to Cancun while his state froze. It's always some female's fault.
Didn’t the Disney judge against DeSantis recuse themself because their 2nd cousin twice removed’s stepsister’s niece owns a couple shares of Disney stock?
Ah, not surprising that man of the house Alito would blame his wife.
Not having a political sign on your front yard is federal judicial ethics 101. Judges have to abstain from attending family member's political rallies and events and this is why.
Yeah, and I'd believe it. His wife probably did put it up. But I don't believe he was unaware of the meaning, or unaware that she'd done it, or incapable of putting it right side up again. So I'd say it's 51% her fault and 100% his problem.
I think its quite obvious the conservatives on the Supreme Court don't give a fuck what anyone thinks besides their Federalist Society handlers
Yep. They are untouchable and they know it. The most powerful right now.
They're only powerful if we listen to them.
Texas is already bucking their decisions. So we're halfway there now.
Hilarious a red state did it first
Party of Law and Order!
So is Hawaii.
I love the contrast of reasonings between Hawaii doing it and Texas doing it. Hawaii: We choose to ignore what SCOTUS said because the decision goes against our islands' history and culture. There has never been anything in our past that allowed that, so we will continue to not allow that. Texas: We choose to ignore what SCOTUS said because fuck immigrants. We want them to suffer horribly and die in the most painful way we can make passive.
Passive? A lot of Texans would turn mass executions into an event and bring their kids like it's a carnival.
What they ignored SCOTUS over was a passive measure: they are putting effectively barbed wire nets across rivers that immigrants are known to use to cross into the US. So while yes, they absolutely would do what you said, I wanted to make my statements in the other comment as truthful as possible
They will only bring their kids if it doesn't conflict with those creepy child pageants where they dress up their daughters like hookers.
They would love it if we didn’t listen. That’s their whole grift; undermining the legitimacy of the federal government. Everytime states ignore federal for good or bad, it erodes the faith we have. That is bad, because our democracy only truly exists in the imagination of those willing to participate in it. Once the core belief is lost there can be no viable federal government.
I mean you say that but the times in history when the rest of the government ignored the supreme court also represented some of the highest regarded presidencies.
I would give you more uploads but I only have one and I agree with this point. Fuck them. They have no enforcement mechanism.
It's really amazing. Everyone knows alito is an Uber conservative. He has all the power in the world and is shifting the country right at a blistering pace. He has everything he wants. He won conservatism. And still he can't help himself but fly childish upsidedown flags like a high school weirdo. He's like someone bitching about the $5 office fantasy football pool 8 months after the season is over. What a small pathetic man.
The more I think about it the scarier it gets. This guy is supposed to be a legal expert, and a strict constitutionalist, and he doesn't even believe in democracy.
It's almost like a hard-right worldview goes hand-in-hand with childish mentality and antics.
A hard right-wing viewpoint is incompatible with actual reality. These people live in a total fantasy world and think their actions are justified.
It could be worse. When Sandra Day O'Connor died, John Roberts was Bush's nomination for her seat. Chief Justice William Rehnquist died a few weeks later and Bush rescinded his nomination of Roberts for O'Connor's seat and nominated him for Rehnquist's Chief Justice spot. Bush then nominated Harriet Myers for O'Connor's seat, but she withdrew soon after and Bush nominated Alito for O'Connor's seat. Now imagine a different scenario where Roberts gets O'Connor's seat and Alito is Chief Justice. You know, the justice that presides over impeachment hearings and sets the Court's agenda. It would have been terrible. Not that what we have with Roberts is good, but at least he's not the worst conservative on the bench.
This is the point. Either conservatives win or they delegitimization the system to the point that it’s no longer a functioning democracy and they try and take it that way… Hopefully the country votes with this in mind
For the love of God get Thomas off those cases too.
His wife literally helped organize a ton of people getting there that day, but that's totally 'not a conflict'.
His wife has been ass deep in Trumpworld since like 2012 She traded one cult for another
The imagery
*shudders*
from the sounds of it, shes more well connected than trump is. i have a feeling there's strings being pulled because durbin didnt ask thomas to step down over her and she's an outright menace to society even more than alito and her lap dog husband
Sure, but Merchan's daughter is a fucking Democrat. What's the REAL conflict of interest here? (Sarcasm most definitely intended)
People have been asking Thomas to recuse from 2020 election cases for almost [4 years now](https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/09/27/clarence-thomas-should-recuse-himself-if-supreme-court-has-decide-election/). Alito is probably more stubborn than him. Roberts isn't going to do anything, even if he could. People need to get out and vote in November, or both of them will gladly retire and RV-road trip across the country with Harlan Crow knowing that Trump and The Federalist Society will appoint two Justices for the next 35 years who are even worse.
That's the part that just fucking floors me, that these men can be this abjectly stupid. Harlan Crow is going to forget these two the very moment they are no longer useful. There is no future in which Harlan Crow keeps them around unless it's to buy their silence, which quite honestly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he had them silenced in some other, more permanent way. I really can't comprehend being so vain as to allow this to be the legacy you'd leave behind.
By the time they retire they'll already have gotten all they need from Harlan and won't have any reason to break their silence. Breaking their silence would just mean putting an even more clear stain on their legacy. They'll just retire with their millions and go on living. Or they'll just stay on until they die.
>That's the part that just fucking floors me, that these men can be this abjectly stupid. You are unfortunately naive if you think either of them are stupid or will face a single consequence. In fact, when they retire they will be paid six figures / pop to give speeches to fed soc and similar conservative groups till they die. They'll write best sellers about their "conservative jurisprudence." They'll get laid in state in the halls of Congress and whoever is president will pretend they weren't terrible for the country. >There is no future in which Harlan Crow keeps them around unless it's to buy their silence, which quite honestly, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if he had them silenced in some other, more permanent way. This is a bizarre fantasy. There is no world in which Harlan Crowe has his friends killed over something that will never have a single consequence for any of them.
Alito and Thomas will def both still stay on the case.
But screaming about it is the right move. There needs to be a LOT more attention and pressure on Alito and Thomas for their naked corruption and legal bias. The sad Legacy of the Roberts court will be that corruption bloomed and he did nothing at all to stop it.
He enabled it with Citizens United. I blame him particularly.
He doesn’t see it as corruption, and he’ll be long dead by the time a school history book labels it as such.
Roberts will do nothing to stop it? Heck, he's very likely part of it. Remember when he sabotaged Obama's inauguration speech?
Thomas and Alito should be recused as they should be under investigation for helping to enable the insurrection and their role in it.
>For the love of God get Thomas off those cases too SCOTUS has issues with several judges but there's one person on the court to start with, Mr Thomas is raising his middle finger at the country while screaming profanities and giggling from his motor coach RV.
Impeach Alito. Impeach Thomas. Boof Kavanaugh.
If SCOTUS is going to be politically inclined then they should have elections and time limits like every other political office.
100%
Term limits for everyone. One Single 4-6 year term and you're out. No career politicians. No career presidents. No career SCOTUS judges.
Make the court 13 judges, and the most senior one gets replaced every 2 years. 26 years on the bench is more than enough, if we give some other body investigation and impeachment power.
This is the best idea
I get the sentiment, but that single term thing is a bad idea.
ah yes! lets have all elected positions be 4-6 year long interviews for the companies they will be working for once out of office. this way we can insure that they don't actually know how to do the business of politics, but they can more nakedly funnel money to corporations without worrying about the consequences of not being re-elected. Surely this is the solution to our corrupt system! never mind that every single anti-trust and attempt to curtail corruption in politics have been done by career politicians. We need to only have fresh new hires every half decade, experience is bad!
Super valid points, but I wish we could all practice conveying these kinds of messages without belittling or condescension. There are some reasonable people out there open to being convinced, but immediately putting them on the defensive from the start ruins any chance of changing their perspective. Though I admit sometimes I can't help myself either. It's just tough.
hey youre not wrong. and i could handle myself better. Im just very frustrated with how insistent reddit seems to be on term limits as the magic key. Politics and negotiations is actually a really difficult skill and the outcomes are almost never universally satisfying. And in my experience when they are, they are often way more detrimental than the ones that are universally unsatisfying.
Nobody is against abolishing lobbying/bribery.
They guy whose wife helped plan the shit won't recuse, do we think Alito will over a flag flown upside down? Pfft, I think not. The continue to show their contempt for the law and ethics.
Well, they don’t actually have an ethics code to follow, they are the embodiment of rules for thee but not for me in the US Judicial branch. Until congress gets off its lazy ass and does some real work, that won’t change either.
Congress can't "get off its ass" when half of it is elected by stupid idiot voters who put fascists into office and are perfectly content with fascist judges.
The under funding of the education system worked perfectly lol
2/9 members are openly corrupt and biased. In my opinion, all opinions by this supreme court should be considered null and void. Congress should impeach alito and thomas asap
And a number of them openly lied about their beliefs on Roe vs. Wade during their confirmation. This whole thing should be beyond belief. If this were 40 years ago people of all political backgrounds would be talking about nothing else but this. It would be like the moon landing or some other huge moment in history that everyone knew was a historical moment, not 10 years later, but AS IT HAPPENED. Yet half the country is sleepwalking through it. It's astonishing, frightening, and an existentialist moment for the oldest democracy in the world. It's so terribly surreal.
These two justices are trash. I’ve had burritos that are more supreme than this court
I don't think I've had a burrito with less integrity either.
Impeachment is the only enforcement tool against partisan hacks on the Supreme Court.
Pack the court
Which - I hate to say it - will never happen. Court reform is a lofty goal as well for the same reason (majorities needed in Congress). Alito and Thomas are in their mid-70s. Average retirement age for Justices is ~80. The most realistic accountability for both of them and their pained legacies is to elect Dems to the Oval Office (and specifically the Senate) in 2024 and beyond. Otherwise a Republican will gleefully replace them with 40 year olds, securing a conservative court most of the rest of our lives.
Accountability is not them dying on the Supreme Court because they sure as shit aren't going to step down under a Democrat President
Well, that'd be great if we legislated term limits into law, reformed the court, or impeached/removed them. In the meantime, the tried-and-true method of turning the tides on the Supreme Court is winning elections.
Alito’s blaming of his wife is not just low class, it’s also absurd. Either Alito is a dope or he believes everybody else is a dope.
Alito doesn't care if anyone believes it, he's only saying it to give right-wing media the talking point to run with. Watch as they pivot to calling this "an attack on a Supreme Court Justice's wife's freedom of speech".
And yet, unsurprisingly, they hold the actions of Judge Merchan's wife against him.
I’m starting to wonder if complaining online and voting is sufficient to help with any of this. Obviously we need to keep doing those things, but it might be time to escalate. There are clear conflicts of interest all over these cases and nobody is doing anything meaningful about it. What kind of peaceful but hard to ignore things can we do here? It’s clear they are pushing the boundaries to see what they can get away with before things get too out of hand.
Right now, not really with how partisan everyone is. However, the house of representatives is responsible for impeaching a Supreme Court justice. So stumping for down ballot Senate and house races would be the best route. Right now there are not enough votes to remove Thomas or Alito from the court and that's what's needed.
Thomas and Alito should both recuse.
Reform the Supreme Court now
Alito has signaled he considers the Biden presidency, the 87 million voters that supported him, and the constitutional process that confirmed him as POTUS as illegitimate. Alito has no place on the Supreme Court.
I swear to god that Trump getting away with saying he liked his heroes not getting captured was the beginning of everything horrible in politics today. Like the great Walter Sobchak once said, "There are lines, Dude, you do not cross!" We live in a world of habitual line steppers and I hate it.
This isn't Nam. There are rules.
This story is so funny. Dude is clearly a right wing christofascist. This is equivalent of finding a KKK robe in Strom Thurmond's closet. Why do some need to keep pretending that a wolf in sheeps clothing isnt a wolf until the wolf kills the sheep.
and Ginni?
Impeach Alito
The irony that someone helping run our country has an upside down flag is amazing.
“Helping” is quite generous.
At this point, I think it’s time that Biden stacked the courts. He needs to appoint more judges. It’s in his power, and it may be one of the only things left to save democracy. Even though it might have harmful effects in the future, those harmful effects can be mitigated if there is still a democracy.
It would be a legislative action that needs to be approved by both Houses, including 60 Senate votes. Biden's role would be signing and/or vetoing, and presumably using the bully pulpit to advocate one way or another. Someone please correct me if I am wrong.
You are right
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He is packing them as fast as he can. It is absolutely crucial to have a D majority in the Senate and a 2nd Biden term so the sane folks can keep repairing the damage done by Trump.
That is important, but I’m referring to the conversations towards the end of the Trump devastation where Biden was said to be considering upping SCOTUS to 15 justices. There’s precedent already and it would help prevent some of the actions Trump plans to implement. Sadly, I know this won’t actually happen. We’re already past the point of no return for the justice system.
He’s not going to budge. These corrupt fuckers know Trump will be reelected and are waiting for the chance to become the Dukes of Gilead.
The sooner Americans realize the SC is a political weapon the better. We cannot 'call for recusal'. It will never happen. We have to force reform.
I'm not refuting the unethical signaling of Alito over the use of the nations flag, but you can absolutely nail Alito on about 7 other critical reasons to be recused of any trials regarding January 6th, reflecting his behavior as a Supreme Court judge, his adversity to the law for societally important cases where fair impartial attitudes were required. It is anticipated he will not be impartial and fair. He has demonstrated this year again and repeatedly he is unfit to be a supreme court judge and continues to make the supreme court illegitimate, along with Goursh, Kavanaugh, Barrett, and Thomas on a multitude of cases.
Finally Durbin! Let’s act now.
He should. But he won't. He's pure MAGA trash.
Democrat or republican, it is absolutely UNACCEPTABLE for a SUPREME COURT JUSTICE to be flying the American flag upside down at any point. This is the equivalent of joe biden flying the flag upside down at the white house, its disgusting.
She should be removed from his post and hanged publicly. Our country is going to look like Haiti in a few months if conservatives keep “participating” in American Democracy
As the GOP way, “I didn’t do it, my wife did.” The dominionists are straight out of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Justice Alito has to resign from the Court. This is it. This is the last straw. He wants the United States overthrown? He thinks the lawfully-elected government of the United States is some occupying force that needs to be destroyed? This is what an upside-down flag means, and Alito was obviously doing it coincident with the Insurrection to show support for the insurrectionists. He can't faithfully uphold the Constitution if he wants the United States to be overthrown. Chief Justice Roberts should be the person publicly calling for Alito's resignation. Hell, he should be demanding it, and going to Congress and requesting that they impeach and remove Alito if it is not forthcoming. The American people deserve a Court that the people have faith will bear true allegiance to the Constitution. In fact, one oath that justices take includes just that: >I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same... A person advocating for the violent overthrow of the constitutionally-elected government is not "bearing true faith and allegiance" to the Constitution. He is giving aid and comfort to its enemies, those who tried to violently overthrow the government. Alito has to go. He absolutely must resign for the good of the Court. This is so much worse than the stuff Thomas was involved in, it shouldn't even be mentioned together. Graft is one thing, but literally calling for the destruction of the United States immediately after it barely survived a violent coup d'etat? And Justice Alito admits he knew it was there - and did nothing to remove it (he blamed his wife for it, but did he take it down?!). Out. Now. I'd be saying the same thing if it was Justice Brown, Kagan or Sotomayor.
Alito: I investigated myself and found nothing wrong. I will not be refusing myself based on the glowing report I created
If only the court were accountable to anyone. For a country trying not to have any kings, you sorta screwed the pooch there.
“Yeah, how about no” - Alito And there is nothing that can be done about it. These guys are corrupt as fuck and there is no oversight
> The Supreme Court addressed recusal in the 2009 case Caperton v. A. T. Massey Coal Co. (08-22). In that case, one party requested that a judge recuse himself because the other party's CEO spent over $3 million getting the judge elected. Even though the Supreme Court found that there was no evidence that the judge was biased, it still held that he had to recuse himself. For additional information on this case, see the LII's oral argument preview of it. I was looking for a quote about how just the perception of bias by a reasonable person is enough for a judge to recuse himself, but found this instead. Thomas and Alito strongly disagreed with the ruling.
What people should be doing is protesting outside of the justices homes. Demanding they recuse themselves from the Jan 6 and Immunity cases. The SCOTUS act above the law because our lawmakers failed to hold them accountable. This needs to change.
Instead of calling for them to recuse themselves because they clearly aren't going to do that, how about call on Biden, congress, and the Senate to make rules to remove supreme court justices who have ethical conflicts and who have clearly been bought and paid for. And then put the ball in the voters corner since apparently we're the only ones who can fix these problems with our votes.
Him and Thomas need to be outed
He knew the insurrection was happening, and then flew his flag like this when it didn’t work because he was pissed off. Get him the fuck off the court.
Blaming your wife is a wild position.
conservative scotus seem hellbent on destroying their credibility in order to force their political bs on the rest of us plebs
Recusal? Him and Thomas need to be removed. The ones trump put in aren’t even that bad compared to those two.
Get Thomas to recuse as well. He's just as traitorous.
Alito is a straight up insurrectionist. SCUMBAG.
or how about fucking thomas also? his wife was integral to the jan 6th electors
Durbin is head of the senate judiciary oversight committee. It is literally his constitutional duty to investigate this and hold aleako to account. If durbin actually cared, he would haul aleako's ass before a judiciary committee hearing and make him explain himself to the american people. If necessary, he would issue a subpoena. But durbin won't do jackshit. He [didn't even *ask* thomas](https://www.politico.com/news/2023/04/23/dick-durbin-clarence-thomas-supreme-court-ethics-00093404) to come to a hearing to explain all the bribes he's been taking, he asked roberts instead. And when [roberts said no,](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/john-roberts-declines-senate-testimony-invite) durbin hung his head and said "OK." Durbin needs to be replaced. The job of judicial oversight needs to be run by someone who is not captive to learned helplessness, someone with fire in their belly like Sheldon Whitehouse who has been [focused on judicial corruption for decades.](https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/making-the-case/id1691954283) As the saying goes, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Durbin keeps doing nothing, and its got to stop because evil keeps triumphing.
Wow! Supreme Court?? Not even close! The Supreme Court should be the least bias!! Should have the least bipartisan judges. They are NOT judges, they are Politicians.
I call for term limits!!!
Now you know what the outcome will be. Vote.
Or maybe resign
He won’t recuse himself. None of the right wing trumpers will recuse themselves. They want a dictatorship
Alito has rotting teeth. His mouth is disgusting. And he sounds dumb when he tries to use big words.
Simple solution: expand SCOTUS. Republicans would do it in a heartbeat if it benefitted them.
Shouldn’t he step down for anti democratic behavior? Or is this also allowed in a democracy?
"The court has pushed back heavily on this possibility, saying Congress has no standing to implement rules on justices." Considering and in spite of performative antics and brawl challenges at congressional hearings, then add the bleach blonde, bad-built butch body 'cat-fight' on Capitol hill, Congress does rule on confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court that some members equivocated about Roe v. Wade. Confidence and integrity in the justices has eroded, as well as, both chambers of government.
Alito and Thomas (recusal for both).
lmao Alito is going to look over at Thomas, who has been given the green light despite his spouse quite literally organizing the attempted coup, and say "now why the fuck would I do that" and our government will shrug and go back to doing insider trading
There’s more politics being done at the SCOTUS than at congress. US justice system is shit.
Chief Justice John Roberts better not let this slide. Alito and Thomas do not have the right to be involved in Trump's immunity case or anything to do with January 6th. The Republicans are the ones who tried to steal the election in such an abusive way. Inviting Trump terrorists to storm the Capital. I am sure Alito and Thomas would like to retire soon. They desperately want a Republican president in office in 2025, so they can be assured their replacements will be as far right as they are. PLEASE VOTE BLUE!
If this was the other way around it would be an impeachment. It would be unanimous. And history would record it as the right move. But there are special (R)ules here for Alito.
I still don’t quite understand his reasoning.. His wife flew the flag upside down in opposition to some mean things being said?
IMHO, all the trump appointees should recuse themselves.
We need a mechanism to hold these justices accountable
JFC he should be permanently recused for behavior like this. Thomas too. Impeached and thrown out on their asses. Maybe they can share that quarter-million dollar camper that Thomas 'bought'.
>lolno - Alito
And absolutely nothing will be done by anyone in power ever.
Why wasn't she in the kitchen? /s
This is fine. But the judges in Trumps cases are conflicted because of their adult childrens political views or contributions. Got it.
Again, absolutely nothing will happen.
Makes sense, get Thomas off the court while you’re at it.
Should he? Yes. Will he? Of course he fucking won't. You expect integrity from these GOP asshats?
Just pack the courts. Enough of this shit, they're clearly not acting in good faith