I can think of a few jobs I’d love to hire him for, but decorum demands I remain silent. I hope no one leaks my memo.
Which begs the questions: What is Alito’s trip? Is Alito simply another master race sociopath, or can it be more benign?
But what do I know? Guess I’ll refer to folks who have studied the player, first one from 2005:
Right to Wife
Why does Judge Alito treat women like girls?
NOV 03, 2005
Judge Alito, it’s a pleasure to have you before our committee this morning. You’re obviously an accomplished jurist, and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle speak very highly of you. I really have only one question for you, and it’s my hope that you’ll be able to put my mind, and the public’s mind, at ease about it. What I’d like to know is, why do you think it’s constitutional to treat a pregnant woman like a child?
I’m referring, of course, to your dissent in Planned Parenthood v. Casey 14 years ago. As you know, that case involved a Pennsylvania statute that required women to notify their husbands before having abortions, on pain of criminal sanctions. You voted to uphold the statute.
First of all, Judge, I notice that in your concluding footnote to that case, you mentioned that the plaintiffs had asked your court to hold the statute unconstitutional because it “violates the rights to marital and informational privacy and equal protection.” You wrote that you wouldn’t address those arguments because your colleagues had relied on a different argument, the right to abortion.
Since you rejected the abortion argument and didn’t bother addressing the other arguments, I guess we can infer that they wouldn’t have changed your vote. So, you don’t think privacy or equality entitles a woman, constitutionally, to make the decision without consulting her husband.Now, about the abortion argument. … heck of an eye opener article follows.
By Adam Liptak
Nov. 13, 2020
WASHINGTON — In an unusually caustic and politically tinged speech, Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. told a conservative legal groupthat liberals posed a growing threat to religious liberty and free speech.
The remarks, made at the Federalist Society’s annual convention Thursday night, mirrored statements Justice Alito has made in his judicial opinions, which have lately been marked by bitterness and grievance even as the court has been moving to the right. While Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has tried to signal that the Supreme Court is apolitical, Justice Alito’s comments sent a different message.
Coming as they did just weeks after Justice Amy Coney Barrett succeeded Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, giving conservatives a 6 to 3 majority, the remarks alarmed some on the left. …
[SAMUEL ALITO’S ANTIABORTION INSPIRATION: A 17TH-CENTURY JURIST WHO SUPPORTED MARITAL RAPE AND HAD WOMEN EXECUTED] - VanityFair
The Supreme Court justice wants to turn the U.S. into a dystopian hellscape where women are property—and he’s not stopping there.
BY BESS LEVIN
MAY 3, 2022
By now, you’ve likely heard the news that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn the national right to an abortion, an expected but nevertheless jolting, devastating blow to reproductive rights. We know The Handmaid’s Tale is about to go from scripted narrative to retroactive documentary thanks to the leak of a draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, in which arch conservative justice Samuel Alito writes, in a hateful 98-page screed, that “ Roe [ v. Wade ] was egregiously wrong from the start” and that it “is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.” Which Alito obviously knows would lead to abortion care being severely restricted or fully outlawed in roughly half of the country and make it not only a felony to perform an abortion in some states, but a felony to obtain one.
As Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern notes, the draft—which could change before a the final ruling, as could the various justices’ votes—doesn’t just lay out the case for why Roe should be overturned, it goes full scorched earth. …
