Rising Hegemon
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito broke from the high court's usual decorum on Monday morning, rolling his eyes and shaking his head as his senior colleague, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, read her dissents in two cases.Ginsburg's dissents were in two employment discrimination cases where the Roberts' Court...continued its nearly 100 percent record of ruling for the greatest "persons" in the world, corporations.
Longtime Supreme Court observer Garrett Epps called it a "mini-tantrum" and "display of rudeness."
"Alito pursed his lips, rolled his eyes to the ceiling, and shook his head 'no,'" wrote Epps in the Atlantic. "He looked for all the world like Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, signaling to the homies his contempt for Ray Walston as the bothersome history teacher, Mr. Hand."
He added that Alito's gestures "brought gasps from more than one person in the audience."
Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank echoed Epps' admonishment.
"His treatment of the 80-year-old Ginsburg, 17 years his senior and with 13 years more seniority, was a curious display of judicial temperament, or, more accurately, judicial intemperance," Milbank wrote. "Typically, justices state their differences in words -- and Alito, as it happens, had just spoken several hundred of his own from the bench. But Alito frequently supplements words with middle-school gestures."
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Cannot say we weren't warned
Sammy Alito has a problem with people not agreeing with him...and his horrible legal analysis:
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Sammy "The Fish" Alito will be giving tax breaks to organized crime, as long as they call themselves "legitimate businesses."
Can't wait for the day when we find out whose pocket he's in.
This reminded me of the pathetic display he and Mrs. Alito put on during his confirmation hearing...she burst out of the room in tears at one point if I remember right, and he defended his membership in some less-than-inclusive organization (at Princeton?) by insisting that the revolutionary mongrel hordes were ready to storm the gates...at Princeton...in the United States of America...that had just elected Richard Nixon president.
Yeah, sounds like the kind of person who throws public hissy fits.
alito needs to go.
Right wingers are by and large childish assholes.
Histrionics are the last resort of those who know they're spouting bullshit and also know they've been caught bullshitting. Political hacks caught being political hacks. So much for the Supreme Court as respected institution.
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