Jesus H Christ. I just actually read Alito's decision...

[First Speaker]

...I'm staggered. I can't believe that anyone in the US in the 21st century is capable of "reasoning" like this. It's as if Cotton Mather was Chief Justice of the Republic of Fredonia. This man has some serious issues wrong with him...

[2naSalit]

1. Has no business being...

A Justice.

[Skittles]

6. that's true for all the SC conservatives

they're making decisions for evangelicals, not America

[ShazzieB]

9. Yes.

But I do think some are worse than others. Alito, Thomas, and Amy Coney "if you don't want the baby, just drop it off at the firehouse, no biggie" Barrett are the worst of the worst, imnsho.

[Skittles]

17. nah

when it comes right down to it, they all suck - BIG TIME

[ShazzieB]

19. Well,, it's all a matter of opinion anyway, lol.

Sam, Clarence, and Amy are the ones I personally most love to hate. Sam for that asinine fail of an opinion draft, Amy for her "drop 'em off at the firehouse" remarks, and Clarence for just generally being a hateful, misogynistic, old sack of shit!

[Skittles]

22. so, Kavanaugh passes your, er, test?

alrighty then

[uponit7771]

29. No, he's just the more reasonable one among them and that's how fucked up the others are

[Tumbulu]

44. I was stuck on hating Barrett the most

but I never paid any attention to Alito before. But this opinion-OMG!!!!!!!!!

[uponit7771]

52. Yep, he literally outlines his opinion similar to Taney in Dred. Scott horrificness

[In It to Win It]

60. It's funny that you mention that because

All week I’ve been thinking that I’m sure Sam Alito would have voted with the majority in the Dred Scott case… and I’ve been talking myself out of posting it everyday.

[housecat]

71. I'm still stuck on dispising Barrett the most, but the others are a close second

[Tumbulu]

81. I think it is the bound mind thing....

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Instead of her feet being bound, it was her mind that they bound up. And created one that resonates with the hateful agenda of the Federalists Society. That whiney voice also sends me over the top.

How any woman who produced a child could EVER EVER EVER dream of forcing it on someone who does not want to produce the child is such an outrage. I think it is this that makes me hate her the most. Because she degrades us all.

[housecat]

83. thank you.

[In It to Win It]

53. Kavanaugh is a low bar but I also think he's the more reasonable one out of the bunch

I thought that if Roberts was actually trying to sway one of the 5 from the Alito opinion, the one that would most likely be swayed would be Kavanaugh... which sounds crazy when I think about it but I think if there is a possibility of any other justice being swayed to not overturn Roe, it's Kavanaugh and no one should put any hope in Kavanaugh.

Kavanaugh is the least batshit crazy out of all of them.

[ShazzieB]

56. Exactly.

His past is a cesspool, of course, but my hate is based on how he's behaved on SCOTUS. And as you said, he's definitely been less batshit than the ones I listed.

[ewagner]

64. You're right ...Kavanaugh is the most likely flip...

...not because it's the right thing to do...it's because he doesn't believe in anything

[In It to Win It]

69. With this particular set of RWNJs, that seems to be a positive

[housecat]

72. And he can have more beer

[Demobrat]

74. Kavanaugh has probably paid for the most abortions

and still has nightmares about winding up on the wrong end of a child support order. Especially now that it’s harder for men to weasel out of it by slut shaming the woman. No more how do I know it’s mine, right Brett?

[2Gingersnaps]

77. Truth, he has no moral convictions, but what passes for them is self service at best.

The other Conservatives think they are doing God's work. I have a special dislike for Gorsuch, he is the stolen seat, he does not belong there, he is just not as obnoxiously noxious as the Dean of the SC Douchebags-Thomas, as vacuous as Barret, or as pseudo-intellectual elitist at Scalito.

He is pretty basic, they paid his Country Club bill and his credit card debt, he delivered the vote he committed perjury to give.

[brush]

33. Heehee! Love your description of those 3...

especially of Thomas. That is so perfect.

[ShazzieB]

59. Why, thank you!

[Arkansas Granny]

46. It's about that domestic supply of infants, doncha know.

[housecat]

84. Do the "fathers" of this domestic supply of infants pay child support?

[CrispyQ]

11. +1

Chris Hedges warned us in his book American Fascists.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

20. Fuck every last one of those reThug-appointed, conservative Justices; wish we could impeach em all!

Either flush those turds or just pack the Court already!!

[Baitball Blogger]

2. It was sloppy, wasn't it?

[In It to Win It]

3. yes... completely

and batshit

[Tumbulu]

47. Really really batshit crazy

And no logic whatsoever!!!!!

The right has no mind, and no heart. What in the heck do they have beside an ability to stick together enough to garner all power to themselves?

[lastlib]

63. Ans.: $$$

eom

[speak easy]

13. It will be tightened.

Taney circulated Dredd Scott for comment before delivering judgment.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. I read a couple of Scalia's opinions. Same thing.

I thought “this is supposed to be the great conservative legal mind?”

[grantcart]

75. + 100%

His sophomoric application of "original intent" would have gotten him laughed out of my graduate classes using higher criticism tools. The adulation of his poor scholarship was astonishing.

[milestogo]

4. Any judge who has to twist himself that far -

depending on legal or religious texts which are hundreds or thousands of years old - should not be on the Supreme Court. He is totally out of touch with the people living in this country.

The age of a statute makes it quaint; it does not provide moral clarity.

[uponit7771]

28. +1, even goes to the reach of calling his opinion not dependent on women because women can

... choose not to get pregnant as if rape and incest don't exist.

[milestogo]

31. Its the old "keep your legs together" advice.

[blueinredohio]

5. Maybe all the republicans got zapped with the Jewish space lasers.

[Tumbulu]

48. Yes, good thing to hope for.

I just cannot for the life of me believe how idiotic they are.

The most bizarro decision ever.

[Ocelot II]

7. Scary, isn't it? It's not just the substance and the medieval reasoning;

it's the attitude of sheer contempt he obviously holds for the very notion that women have a right to privacy that protects their reproductive decisions. Since that right isn't listed in so many words in the Constitution, written at a time when women had no rights at all, he had to rely on decisions of a 17th-century British judge who executed witches and held that husbands had the right to rape their wives. How much more contempt is even possible?

[area51]

40. +1 n/t

[Pepsidog]

51. It's a hideously egregious, amateurish attempt to impose his own Christian fascists beliefs on us.

[Delphinus]

78. AND

we are not a damned christian nation!

What galls me is that these religions - these MYTHOLOGIES - are being used to "govern". Where is REASON? Where is SCIENCE? We left the Dark Ages a while ago yet MYTHOLOGY rules our lives.

[Pepsidog]

82. Absolutely correct. And, if I seem to recall grade school when students were taught about the first

pilgrims which most RWNJ’s forget about. The pilgrims came to America in search of religious freedom. At the time, England required its citizens to belong to the Church of England. I love to throw the fact that the first English settlers were pilgrims who sought religious freedom. America is not and never has been a Christian nation. It just so happens that over the past 30 years the Evangelicals right has had the loudest voice.

[58Sunliner]

8. Truly insidious and twisted.

[LeftInTX]

10. It's a draft. It's not gonna look like that in the end

It's sick and demented and opens a window to his mind.

And now he's hiding from the fifth circuit!

I think we should him impeach him for being a sicko!!

[CrispyQ]

14. Hiding?

Can you expand on that?

[LeftInTX]

15. He was supposed to attend a conference at the Fifth Court of Appeals last Thursday

He cancelled...

As he should. What he wrote has no legal logic

[SunSeeker]

25. He's s fucking evil coward.

[elleng]

36. Right It's not gonna look like that in the end.

My profound hope is that it's being profoundly 'cleaned up' now.

[LeftInTX]

39. My fear is the decision is not cleaned up, but the argument unfortunately is

Let's hope the illogical fallacies were so far out there, that the court couldn't string it together....

[elleng]

41. It will be very interesting to see how it's cleaned up, including/especially concurrences.

It may be that some of them agree he's gone too far out; interesting to learn which if any pull back against alito's outrages.

[uponit7771]

66. +1, "cleaned up" means his references to ignorance wont be there but ignoring the 9th will be

[smirkymonkey]

12. Someone that demented really shouldn't be sitting on the bench.

I don't think people quite appreciate how bizarre and "out there" this opinion really is. There is no logic or reasoning involved whatsoever.

[The Wizard]

16. The institution that bestowed a Juris Doctorate

on this idiot owes him a full refund.

[C Moon]

18. Hail hail Freedonia!

[Quixote1818]

23. Alito actually did quote from a 1200s-era document. SNL didn't make that up. nt

[paleotn]

24. What happens when crazed, religious fanatics try to interpret the Constitution

And we have a SCOTUS crammed full of crazed, religious fanatics imposing their religious views on all of us.

[rickford66]

26. Can Alito enforce this decision if the majority ignores it ?

You know the MAGA's like to ignore the law when it's not in their favor. Some local sheriffs don't inforce gun laws.

[LeftInTX]

34. No! By majority, I assume you mean majority of the court.

The majority of America is a different story!

[rickford66]

42. I meant the majority of the country.

[uponit7771]

27. K&R, Alito RvW and Dred Scott opinions are VERY VERY close in standard and verbage

[H2O Man]

30. Recommended.

The only area I disagree with is, "It's as of Cotton Mather was ...." He is. He just dresses differently, and goes by a different name.

[reACTIONary]

32. +10 nt

[LiberalFighter]

35. He is in the wrong time period.

He is best suite for the Dark Ages.

[LeftInTX]

38. He made a decision and tried to justify it with medieval bullshit!

That's all he could find!

[housecat]

73. as are all the others

[KentuckyWoman]

37. It has no logic of any sort to it... legally speaking.

I didn't see any legal logic to it at all. It's just a random pile of personal beliefs that in no way tethered to any fact anywhere.

[FakeNoose]

43. He probably didn't write it himself

I don't know, I'm just guessing. But the way things work with the Repukes, it was written by some nameless stooge in Federalist Society and they passed it off to him. He's taking the credit and they're happy as clams to let him do it. Hell they might have even been the ones who leaked it.

[bringthePaine]

45. just another refuKKKchicken pumping a handcart to Hell...

[TomDaisy]

49. he is a severely fucked up asshole

[Pepsidog]

50. Pretty jarring isn't it. They just live in such a bubble and watch Fox that they actually write shit

like this. Republican Justices are so deranged that we must capture more seats and fix this travesty called SCOTUS.

[mvd]

54. It reads like the words of a fanatic who is..

determined to be as political as possible. He has been accused of being the most partisan justice, and this shows why. His contempt for choice and the faulty reasoning are not befitting of a SC justice.

[Mr. Evil]

55. Alito and Barrett are two examples of the right wing extremist objective.

They are truly deluded in themselves. They believe their religious convictions are based on some historical reality. They believe that they are where they are to shape all of America and all of our citizens into their image. The powerful man and the compliant dutiful woman. They are not only legislating from the bench but, they are playing God. They are determined to impose their vision (for lack of a better term) for America. Some dystopian mix of a patriarchal, fascistic, hyper-christian hellscape where they have ultimate and continuing power and everyone else has to comply and conform or else. We must not and cannot let that happen.

The curtain has been removed and what's been revealed is ugly and quite dangerous. I, for one, cannot and will never live the rest of my one and only life on this tiny planet under such conditions. Should it come to bear I will fight them tooth and nail to prevent them from implementing their inhuman house of horrors upon our society.

Sometimes we are complacent. Sometimes we're apathetic. Sometimes we can't remember two news cycles ago. But, this time I think they may have bit off a bit more than they can chew. In their self-righteousness and arrogance they just may have ignited a furious resolve that all the dark money in this world won't be able to defeat. They not only need to be shut down but, they need to be humiliated into oblivion once and for all.

[LeftInTX]

58. The curtain has been removed!

[calimary]

57. So let's get to work and EXPAND THE COURT!!!!

I hear this again and again. From all the experts and knowledgeable people being interviewed.

The ONLY way around this is to EXPAND THE COURT.

[uponit7771]

67. +1,

[DET]

61. Scary, Isn't It?

I’ve read a number of the seemingly crazy right wing decisions of the court, and it’s hard to comprehend the mental contortions that the best and the brightest have to go through to come up with what appear to a lay person to be ridiculous arguments. Parsing the meaning of a comma…seriously? I suspect that the founding fathers assumed that future jurists would exercise some common sense in their rulings, and would recognize that things evolve over time. Sadly, the current court is determined not to do so.

[The Wizard]

62. He's a legal shill

for radical authoritarian weirdos.

[Raster]

65. Toxic Patriarchy in a judicial robe.

Hard-core Christo-fascist and absolutely non-apologetic.

Alito is akin to Alois Hudal... The "Christianity" is just a thin veneer masking the ugliness underneath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hudal

[no_hypocrisy]

68. Blatant abuse of judicial authority.

Just because there is no other court that can second guess the USSC, you can have justices proclaim that amendments in their sacred Constitution are un-constitutional -- and get away with it until impeached or power diluted.

[Ford_Prefect]

70. As a document conveying judicial reasoning to be used in other cases this provides no method.

If they can use this kind of language and reasoning they can undo any previous law on a whim.

I don't see this having the future they imagine. Unless what it really means is that they can declare anything to be legal or illegal purely in the basis of having 5 votes.

[Oneironaut]

76. We're burning down an entire nation because of sex.

Trumpism and Conservatism are a cult. Seriously - I bet all these old men sleep around like rabbits. The hypocrisy is rampant.

The hardcore Christo-Fascists on other hand should try it. Jesus approves.

[Icanthinkformyself]

79. I thought the name

was Jesus Phucking Christ. That's what all of the Catholic carpenters I used to work with screamed out when they hit their thumbs with the hammer. Maybe they were wrong? s/

[AZLD4Candidate]

80. Bush V. Gore and the DB45 "elections" will set us back 50 years.