#Alito and #ClarenceThomas want to keep the 1832 Comstock Act alive and vibrant, illustrating their continuing hostility to abortion and contraception. Whatever these two decide about standing in today’s case, that hostility remains untouched.
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Via Kyle Griffin:
In light of the second Alito flag report, Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin is calling for Samuel #Alito to recuse himself "immediately" from cases related to the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 insurrection "for the good of the country."
He adds: "The Chief Justice must see how this is damaging the Court and immediately enact an enforceable code of conduct."
2yrs AFTER an #UpsideDown American flag was flown outside the VA home of #SCOTUS Justice Samuel #Alito, another *provocative* symbol was displayed at his…house in NJ….the #AppealToHeaven flag…like the inverted #UnitedStates flag was carried by *rioters* [ #insurgents] at the… #Jan6 2021 [ #insurrection].
#law #ActivistCourt #ChristianNationalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.2xMd.Y8aUZ-CGwkQJ&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb
As Heather Cox Richardson reports, the Supreme Court just signed off on a South Carolina congressional map that dilutes Black votes by gerrymandering.
And Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. She writes,
"Almost exactly 70 years after the Supreme Court unanimously decided Brown v. Board, it appears that the framed timbers designed to reverse the expansion of minority rights are falling into place."
👀👀👀Via Kyle Griffin:
New: Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse are requesting a meeting with Chief Justice John Roberts to discuss "the Supreme Court's worsening ethics crisis" and have sent a letter imploring Roberts to "take appropriate steps" to ensure Samuel #Alito recuses himself from 2020 election and Jan. 6 cases.
BREAKING NYT:
Samuel #Alito told a woman posing as a Catholic conservative last week that compromise in America between the left and right might be impossible and then agreed with the view that the nation should return to a place of godliness.
"One side or the other is going to win," Alito told Lauren Windsor at an exclusive gala at the Court. "…there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/us/politics/supreme-court-alito.html
Via Scott MacFarlane:
There are now 19 co-sponsors for the pair of US House resolutions calling for the impeachment of #SCOTUS Justice Sam #Alito and Justice #ClarenceThomas
Both were initially sponsored by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY
Samuel #Alito is the only Supreme Court member with a stake in more than two dozen individual companies — a distinction that should force his recusal from major business cases before the Court.
Alito or his wife own tens of thousands of dollars of stock in companies including Raytheon, ConocoPhillips and a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson. https://trib.al/qqyHrgq