Let's Hear It for Justice Sam Alito, America's Robed Ayatollah!
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
BY DAVE LINDORFF
Let’s make a collective raspberry for the biggest loser of this off-year Congressional election: Supreme Court Justice and easily the most grouchy and sanctimonious jurist on the High Court bench Samuel Alito.
It was Alito who led the charge to finally accomplish what the vast majority of male Republican members of Congress and state legislatures across the country have been dreaming of doing for almost half a century: overturning the Supreme Court’s Roe v Wade precedent barring states from outlawing a woman’s right to abortion and to control her own body’s reproductive system.
Alito, who wrote the legal opinion justifying the 6-3 decision he made along his five radical right-wing Federalist Society justices on the bench — all guilty of lying in their confirmation hearings testimony by many claiming that they viewed Roe v. Wade as “settled law,” wrote that, “”It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
This was classic Alito. While he was right that it was time to turn it over from the six robed ayatollahs, but wrong about who would be taking over the battle: not the people’s elected representatives (heaven forfend!) but the voters — those people whom Alito and most Republican judges at all levels have shown so little regard for, unless they’re white.
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