Originally published at: Inside the Parallel Universe Where a Nonpartisan Alito Is Under Assault from the Rabidly Violent Left
At first glance, Federalist Editor-in-Chief Mollie Hemingway’s Alito: The Justice Who Reshaped the Supreme Court and Restored the Constitution is certainly delusional, but not in a way that’s particularly interesting or insightful for a MAGA movement rooted in a cult of personality. The hagiography of the Court’s most openly partisan archconservative, premised on insider access…
And how does she describe Mrs. Alito’s flag obsession? Any mention of Sam’s citation of the witch-burning jurist in the Dobbs opinion? Just wondering, since I’m as likely to read this book as I am to bathe in a tub of sulfuric acid.
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Funny how Hemingway can be wrong about everything, even the role of the real driver of this court, John Roberts. Alito is simply the grumpy front man, Roberts is the real power, the man who more than anyone, has turned the court into the most effective branch of the Republican party. I recommend reading Without Precedent by Lisa Graves if you want the real story behind the unrelenting fanatic masquerading as just a smiling caller of balls and strikes.**
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Alito is a known leaker of unreleased opinions. He had obvious motive to do so with Dobbs: shoring up some wavering colleague who might have defected to Roberts’ half-measure concurrence, thereby denying Alito an outright majority and the force of law. Releasing his draft majority made it clear that Alito had at least five votes on his side, exposing any defector as a traitor to the cause. And it would have been simple and obvious for him to do it through someone outside the Court, such as a trusted former law clerk or a FedSoc type.
Alito is the presumed leaker until proven otherwise.
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What do these people smoke?
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Formaldehyde
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Only the best.
Fun Fact: Clarence has a custom-made humidor* on his Prevost stocked with Cubans.
*He keeps it locked to prevent Ginni from sitting in the back and chain-smoking them while he cos-plays King of the Road.
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I feel so bad Kate Riga had to read that.
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Heroes in their own minds
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From the story: “The Roberts Court is stocked not with partisans groomed and promoted to deliver political wins to the right, but with originalists whose unimpeachably correct interpretation of the Constitution just so happens to align with Republican preferences 100 percent of the time.”
I presume this is snark, or it is a paragraph that should have been introduced with words like: “The author of this book believes.” Or if it is neither of these things, the term “originalists” could have been put in scare quotes or introduced with the words “so-called.”
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It also begs the question of how one would know this with 1000% certainty.
Alito is a Fox “News” viewer red pilled unhinged right wing MAGA partisan hack. He’s as much a judge as Clarence “Where’s my bribe” Thomas.
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No greater love hath a book reviewer for her readers…
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At a time when the Court’s conservative bloc is at its most intellectually rigorous level in history
In a world where each member of the Cabinet is an incorruptible Superman, and not part of the cast of the third season of Carnivàle
The main problem with Hemingway is that she’s an absolute idiot. Just hugely stupid.
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