Only in Washington DC do observers watch the body language and gestures of Supreme Court Justices, but it’s telling that a consensus is emerging that Justice Samuel Alito is an irredeemable penis.
He is probably George W. Bush’s most lasting legacy to the nation. He’s like the Hurricane Katrina that keeps on giving.
I look forward to 30 years from now when Alito is seen as bizarre, ancient relic of this time. He and Roberts the last of their kind on the Court: true believers in the conservative madness we are passing through now. In my dream progressive future.
Sadly he may still be on the bench in 30 years
I find him so awesome..LOL sarcastic mode http://linkapp.me/LXadH
Hey! Did you point to the wrong link? Or do you deserve some more zeros?
He also has absolutely zero redeemable features about his way of looking at the law. Thomas and Scalia are terrible, disgusting people, but they have some opinions that are noteworthy, particularly on the fourth amendment (Scalia in particular). It seems Alito is trying to outdo Thomas, Scalia and Renqhuist for title of reigning champion as the most foul Justice of the post modern era.
OK then… he get’s my vote.
What’s Thomas’ distinction?
Thurgood Marshall was the first black Justice. Thomas is the first self-hating black Justice. He’s the anti-Marshall, appointed to prove that black people are stupid.
OK, maybe he wasn’t deliberately picked. Bush Sr. needed to appoint a black judge to succeed Marshall. He also needed to appoint a conservative Republican. Maybe the fact that the appointee was a self-hating idiot was the inevitable result of the two clashing requirements.
Some 4th amendment stuff. Most recently dog sniffing.
Whodathunkit?
That the Justice to the SC, nominated by a petulant jerk of a President, is himself a petulant jerk.
Wow!
No one could have seen THAT one coming!
Or that the CJ of the SCOTUS, nominated by a corporatist tool of a President, is himself a corporatist tool.
Yes, election DO have consequences.
But if one of more of the 5 righties on the SC dies, or retires, or goes insane (I’m lookin’ at you, Judge Scalia!), you can bet that President Obama will NOT get any chance at replacing him.
It’s a tough call as to which W “justice” is the most nauseating and repellent, Roberts or Alito, we’ll have to leave that to the scholars, ha-ha. It seems pretty clear Alito (like so many conservative white males) is immature, childish and a pretty dim bulb, whose estimations of his own intelligence are, shall we say, a trifle exaggerated. Roberts is the better lawyer, diplomat and strategist and the more devious and sinister figure. Both are doctrinaire “conservative” extremists and utter catastrophes for the nation, of course. This was quite clear from their hearings, idiotic senate Dem chantings of “moderates” notwithstanding.
As “justices” picked solely for their allegiance to advancing the goals and interests of the plutocrats and the “conservative” movement, Roberts and Alito are bound to display extreme inconsistency in their “analysis” and supposed principles, because their goal is always going to be the result to be obtained. Objective application of an existing legal principle has absolutely nothing to do with their work.
Thus, the plutocrat or the corporate master must win. The upstart individual must lose. “Conservative” social policies must prevail and be advanced. Congressional goals must be willfully and contemptuously ignored and subverted. Despite Roberts’ barefaced “umpire” lie to Congress, the “law” is secondary, as is (mostly lib’rul) precedent. Lib’rul legal policies (civil rights, affirmative action, reproductive rights, voting rights, environmental regs, labor laws, employer regs) must be narrowed, undermined or (preferably) abolished in every decision. That is the “conservative” judicial program being carried out now. That was why Roberts and Alito were selected.
As seabe notes, no one maintains that these two represent or utilize any kind of useful or unique method of constitutional analysis or that they are especially esteemed legal thinkers. Scalia was a famed “originalist” academic and jurist, for example. Thomas was a token black conservative, intentionally groomed by his white conservative male masters to labor in their service for decades; he has adopted and taken braindead “originalism” to absurd heights of lunacy. He is further right than Scalia and has the crazed purity and zeal of a convert.
In contrast, Roberts was simply a high power corporate lawyer who really does think corporations are people. In fact he thinks that his CEO overseers are divine emperors, far superior in judgment to their fellow citizens. They should not have to suffer any regulation (excuse me, interference) in the operations of the Holy Corporations they have been entrusted with. Alito was a backwater appeals judge of no note other than being a known and comically rightwing figure. Both were selected by KKK Rover for being dedicated movement (mad)men who would despise and attempt destroy all things lib’rul, would never exhibit objective legal thought as judges and would work tirelessly to advance corporate and Repub interests whenever they can. And so they have, and will, for the next 35 years.
At the various oral arguments I’ve watched over the past few years, Alito’s eye-rolling, head-shaking and other expressions of exasperation are a fairly common occurrence, most often when Sotomayor has the floor.
Haven’t we all met a guy like that? Someone who become inexplicably irritable in meetings when – and only when – a certain woman is talking?
Those little ladies just have no place on the Supreeeme Court! Or elite law schools! So infuriating!!
Wonder how many female clerks Justice Alito has hired?
So infuriating!!
It’s just the sound of their voices. It’ll drive you crazy!
Speaking of giant dicks on the Court, there goes the Voting Rights Act.