David Rothkopf tweet thread regarding Alito's statements.

[Swede]

Link to tweet

[Joinfortmill]

1. WTF???

[elleng]

2. alito's been my least favorite ever since he took a seat.

[BradAllison]

17. When he was appointed I felt he would become the worst justice once Scalia was no longer around.

Sadly, I was right.

He's more shrewd than complete idiots like Thomas and Coney Barrett. He's more of an ideologue than Kavanaugh or Roberts. He has zero empathy or "soft spots" compared to Gorsuch. He was Bush's worst legacy, and no one should forget that whenever they try to give Shrub a pass for his part in killing our country.

[yonder]

18. Same here. He just exudes a nasty, dickish meaness.

[lastlib]

3. SammyAss must've taken his dick lessons from Clarence and Fat Tony to heart.

Goresuck is just foreskin--not big enough to be a full dick.

[brer cat]

4. It's scary how close we are.

I have been reluctant to support court packing, but I'm now leaning toward it. This nonsense has to stop.

[Habitation]

12. Add 3 nt

[TreasonousBastard]

5. Bad enough congresscritters not understanding the...

Constitution, but we now have Supreme Court justice admitting he doesn't quite get the 1st Amendment

[thomski64]

6. They are not ignorant of the 1st ammendment..

..they're just willing to overturn precedent,
for example, the Bill of Rights

[gratuitous]

10. The First Amendment says Congress can't establish a national religion

It doesn't say anything about whether the Supreme Court can establish a national religion, and Alito's on track to do that.

[Lithos]

13. he doesn't care

He belongs to a very unique Catholic sect - Opus Dei. This was sect which was portrayed in an over-the-top manner in the Davinci Code (the albino monk).

To be honest, they are not quite rational in their beliefs. They feel rather empowered to discard arbitrary things like the Constitution as they feel they will be judged by God in a different setting based on what they actually do. These people believe in an alternative reality.

[duckworth969]

22. +1

[crickets]

7. Saying the quiet part out loud now.

If would be nice if that "pride goeth before a fall" thing would kick in.

[Solly Mack]

8. K&R

[dalton99a]

9. The Ayatollah has spoken.

[Duppers]

20. Exactly! ✔️

He is dangerous.

[ARPad95]

11. Why doesn't he just get a one-way ticket to Rome and exchange his SC justice robe for a cassock

and pallium? I heard there may be a vacancy at the Vatican soon.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/06/pope-francis-latest-plans-fuel-rumours-over-resignation

Rumours swirling since early May that Pope Francis might retire have been fuelled by an announcement that he will be attending a feast initiated by a 13th-century pope who himself resigned.

Speculation that the 85-year-old might follow in the footsteps of his predecessor Benedict XVI and step down from his post was prompted in early May when he appeared in public using a wheelchair for the first time, after undergoing a minor operation to treat knee pain.

It gained momentum when he made the unusual decision to host a consistory on 27 August to create new cardinals, some of whom will be eligible to elect the pontiff’s successor at the next conclave.

Otherwise, he needs to keep his very unwelcomed opinions to himself!

[multigraincracker]

14. Great. Let's vote on which franchise to follow.

It’ll be a great election with lots of money spent and awful commercials attacking “others”. In fact there would be lots of violence. Might even be civil wars over which church will rule. Kind of like the Christian Wars in Europe centuries ago. Better start loading up on guns and bullets now.

[Celerity]

15. full thread

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1553443558526443520.html

[Captain Zero]

19. I'm convinced the Catholic Church and Opus Dei in particular have become a threat

to our constitution and our nation.
There's too damn many of them on the Supreme Court.

I've felt that way for some time.
We are past the incipient stages of Fascism with them.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. Roe your vote! ...

Roe, Roe, Roe your vote
against theocracy!
Republicans revoke your rights
and kill democracy!

Thanks for posting the whole thread.

[multigraincracker]

16. Which Religion will we pick?

[hlthe2b]

21. I am not anti-Catholic but those damned Opus Dei justices will be the end of democracy...

Opus Dei is about control, not freedom. Theocracy, not democracy. Part of fascist ideology is that it is fitting that men have control over women’s bodies (my book documents this). Indeed, control is what fascism and Opus Dei are all about.

https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2022/06/29/supreme-court-judges-sharing-an-opus-dei-seal-of-approval/

[BSdetect]

23. Clearly unfit to serve due to obvious bias.

Jurors in court have to be objective.

What an example he is.

[Baitball Blogger]

25. Glad I read this. There was so much in Alito's speech that was wrong, that

I missed the remarks that nailed his prejudice, favoring religion vs secular rule.

The man is theocratic, which is the opposite of what America stands for. How the hell did he get on the Supreme Court?