How is it legitimate for Alito to base an opinion of US law on 17th Century English law?

[Sogo]

[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Because we're all supposed to live our lives

according to the whims of those who lived four or more centuries ago.

Fuck that.

[Coventina]

2. It is not legitimate. It is grounds for impeachment. He's a moron.

[MiniMe]

3. They are trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube

[dalton99a]

4. "I can pull anything out of my ass, and voila! It is the supreme law of the land"

[spooky3]

7. "absolute power corrupts absolutely" nt

[Ocelot II]

5. It's legitimate in the sense that a judge can use ancient precedent to support

a decision - there's no rule against it - but in this case it was stupid and disingenuous; and using old authorities the way Alito did pretty much proved he didn't have a good argument.

[Irish_Dem]

6. He can do whatever he wants. Who will stop him?

Who can overturn a SC ruling?

[SheltieLover]

8. Legitimate? Several so-called "justices" there are illegitimate!

[AntiFascist]

9. It's legitimate for Opus Dei, attempting to take control of government n/t

[elleng]

10. At both the federal and state levels, with the exception of the state of Louisiana,

the law of the United States is largely derived from the common law system of English law, which was in force at the time of the American Revolutionary War.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_United_States#:~:text=At%20both%20the%20federal%20and,of%20the%20American%20Revolutionary%20War.

[Deuxcents]

11. That's my question.. we weren't even a country then

People came here for religious freedoms..for or against or no religion at all..we don’t live in the dark ages..how can this stand? How is this even viable? Will all of us be witches to burn at the town square? WTF?

[Journeyman]

12. Ask the conservatives who were in a lather 10 years ago about judges citing foreign precedents . . .

A flap over foreign matter at the Supreme Court (March 2004)

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna4506232

American Legal Conservatives Oppose the Citation of Foreign Law (October 2008)

https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/american-legal-conservatives-oppose-the-citation-of-foreign-law-but-what-about-the-hallowed-practice-of-citing-to-blackstone.html

[lastlib]

13. It's only legitimate because he has "Associate Justice" on his nameplate.

From any other perspective, it's illogical, illegitimate, and downright stupid. And it was the only excuse he could come up with.

[Ferrets are Cool]

14. Because the KINGS of the COURT have decreed it so.