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Opinion | Does Justice Alito Hear Himself? (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 year ago by dirtmayor to c/politics

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[–] Thrashy 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I stopped to shiver at the thought of 9 Alitos on the bench, but then the thought occurred to me that the current makeup of the court's conservative majority is a perfect mirror of the American right-wing coalition:

A chauvinistic sex-pest drunkard whose main guiding interest is keeping the party going for his rich fraternity bros
A brainwashed cult acolyte
A corrupt government official on the take (who's also a sex pest)
A faux-intellectual who only ever makes bad-faith arguments that support his existing prejudices
The picture you see in the encyclopedia next to the entry about MLK's "white moderate" letter
A schemer who pretends to be right down the middle of the road but is moving levers behind the scenes to enable the machinations of the others