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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSam Alito, Who Does Things People Don't Like, Still Unsure Why People Don't Like Him
Balls and StrikesOn Monday morning, the journalist Lauren Windsor released recordings of conversations she had with Justice Samuel Alito at a dinner held by the Supreme Court Historical Society last week. During her exchanges with the justice, Windsor made a series of conservative-wackjob-coded statements about the role of the Supreme Court, religion, and political polarization, teeing up the justice to agree with her. I dont know that we can negotiate with the Left in the way that needs to happen for the polarization to end, she told Alito. I think that its a matter of, like, winning.
Alito responded, I think youre probably right.
Its not surprising that a right-wing ideologue would be caught on a hot mic cosigning a desire to end political polarization by achieving right-wing dominance. In what may be a more revealing moment, though, Windsor described the Court as in the midst of a period of turmoil and asked Alito how the it could recover from the erosion of public trust.
I wish I knew, Alito began, immediately before claiming to know the culprit. Its easy to blame the media, but I do blame them because they do nothing but criticize us. Alito concluded, They have really eroded trust in the Court.
Unable or unwilling to do any self-reflection, the justice placed sole responsibility for his bad reputation at the feet of the media. At no point did Alito stop and think about why the media is criticizing the Court, or contemplate the substance of the media reporting that lowered the publics opinion of it. Alito has repeatedly exhibited resentment for any effort to hold him accountable for his use and abuse of the extensive powers granted to him as a Supreme Court justice. But if people dont like the Court once the media informs them of the Courts behavior, its not the receipt of information thats the problem.
Alito responded, I think youre probably right.
Its not surprising that a right-wing ideologue would be caught on a hot mic cosigning a desire to end political polarization by achieving right-wing dominance. In what may be a more revealing moment, though, Windsor described the Court as in the midst of a period of turmoil and asked Alito how the it could recover from the erosion of public trust.
I wish I knew, Alito began, immediately before claiming to know the culprit. Its easy to blame the media, but I do blame them because they do nothing but criticize us. Alito concluded, They have really eroded trust in the Court.
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Unable or unwilling to do any self-reflection, the justice placed sole responsibility for his bad reputation at the feet of the media. At no point did Alito stop and think about why the media is criticizing the Court, or contemplate the substance of the media reporting that lowered the publics opinion of it. Alito has repeatedly exhibited resentment for any effort to hold him accountable for his use and abuse of the extensive powers granted to him as a Supreme Court justice. But if people dont like the Court once the media informs them of the Courts behavior, its not the receipt of information thats the problem.
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Sam Alito, Who Does Things People Don't Like, Still Unsure Why People Don't Like Him (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Jun 2024
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LiberalFighter
(53,392 posts)1. I would love to repurpose a pair of my socks
Fill them with marbles.
Determine the location of his genitals.
And force one into his mouth.
magicarpet
(16,140 posts)2. I bet the kids in elementry school and junior high beat the shit out of Alito on a regular basis,...
.... and stole his lunch money.
Maybe that is why he is such a cranky old cantankerous and peevish Fascist today.
moondust
(20,371 posts)3. Ayatollah Sammy?
But...but...he's a supreme being!
hatrack
(60,590 posts)4. NOTMYFAULTNOTMYFAULTNOTMYFAULTNOTMYFAULTNOTMYFAULTNOTMYFAULT!!!!!
The Supreme Crybaby. Maybe he can come up with a new flag - "A Whine To Heaven".
cloudbase
(5,722 posts)5. The erosion of trust in the court is self inflicted, not a by product of media reporting.