skykiss, to Law
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

Listen to Alito. 🤮

Now, after his insurrection flags revelations supporting the overthrow of our government, his conduct show his bias during the immunity delay hearing when he refused to talk about the crimes of the criminal defendant that are the basis of the case.

Samuel declined to acknowledge the facts of the case during the oral arguments.

His bizarre conduct laid bare in front of Americans was disgraceful.

Alito is a partisan hack. Shockingly apparent during the hearing, a disgrace to our legal system.

Alito's conduct during the immunity delay appeal when he refused to talk about the crimes of the criminal defendant that are the basis of the case. Samuel declined to acknowledge the facts of the case during the oral arguments. His bizarre conduct laid bare in front of Americans was disgraceful. Alito is a partisan hack. Shockingly apparent during the hearing, a disgrace to our legal system

dougiec3, to random
@dougiec3@libretooth.gr avatar

"...disempowering the elected branches of government is the point. Republicans have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections, but in his four years, Trump was able to reshape much of the federal judiciary. Judges can be a route to minority rule, and ending deference to agencies would allow the conservative movement to wipe out the policies of administrations it doesn’t agree with."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/05/this-supreme-court-term-was-all-about-undoing-democracy/?utm_source=mj-newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter-05-24-2024

wdlindsy, to random
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

As Heather Cox Richardson reports, the Supreme Court just signed off on a South Carolina congressional map that dilutes Black votes by gerrymandering.

And Samuel Alito wrote the majority opinion. She writes,

"Almost exactly 70 years after the Supreme Court unanimously decided Brown v. Board, it appears that the framed timbers designed to reverse the expansion of minority rights are falling into place."


/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-23-2024

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"In bestowing racist legislatures with the presumption of good faith, Alito is advancing the twin causes of white Christian nationalism and insurrection symbolized by the 'Appeal to Heaven' flag displayed over his beach house in 2023. Alito is, in short, in the vanguard of a hostile takeover of the US Constitution by white Christian nationalists."

~ Robert B. Hubbell


/2

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/alitos-gift-to-racist-legislatures

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"The conservative court on which Alito sits is largely the product of right-wing dark-money overlord Leonard Leo, and — wouldn’t you know it — Leo flew the same 'Appeal to Heaven' flag outside of his house in Maine.

Murray Ngoima, a Bar Harbor resident, provided Rolling Stone with a photo she took of the flag hanging outside of his house on Feb. 25."

~ Rolling Stone


/3

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/appeal-to-heaven-flag-flew-leonard-leo-house-1235026491/

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"In this case, the Republican majority that includes Justices Alito and Thomas ruled consistently with the views of powerful people from whom they have accepted favors. Inevitably, that means people will question the decision. Is it fair? Is it about following the law in a difficult case? Or is it about favoritism and the return of favors?"

~ Joyce Vance


/4

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/alito-writes-again

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"On Thursday, in an opinion assigned to Alito by Roberts, the court significantly limited those racial gerrymandering claims,

'In every way, the majority today stacks the deck against the Challengers,' Kagan wrote. …

It was a continued erosion of the ability of federal courts to protect voting rights — another full step in a long-term project of the Roberts court."


/5

~ Chris Geidner

https://www.lawdork.com/p/the-roberts-court-conservatives-erode

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"The real news is that Alito and the five other Republican justices have made it much harder, if not impossible, to challenge racial gerrymandering. …

The six Republican appointees have hijacked the Supreme Court for the Republican Party."

~ Robert Reich


/6

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-republican-partisan

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"The reason the Alito flag stories (like the Thomas stories) are so important is not because they reveal the individuals in question to be extremist ideologues. It is because of the utter contempt for the history, ethics, and standing of the court on which they serve."

~ David Rothkopf as cited by Greg Dworkin


/7

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/24/2242374/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-The-GOP-capitulation-to-authoritarianism-puts-the-country-at-risk

realTuckFrumper, to random
@realTuckFrumper@mastodon.social avatar
Awoke,
@Awoke@mastodon.social avatar

@realTuckFrumper

R We Seeing Central America❓
Trump has 94% of Corporate Media telling lies.
Supporting This OLD🇷🇺Mobster ranting gibberish ,high on Adderall.
We Deserve Better.

Not Normal. Unless Cultures know, nothing else but FAKE TOUGH GUYS.
Cycling of Criminality is🤖tragically, Normalized.

Mimicked Gov Terrorizing, misogyny in the Middle East.
War, War, + More War, That’s The culture. How Many wasted Yrs,🇺🇸 was Lied 2.
Non-Democratic🕌WARS.

Central🇺🇸FAILS @ POLITICS. #Corruption matches🇲🇽🩸

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skykiss, to random
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Alito continues his anti-judicial white power reign of terror and completely gets the law wrong. Alito is a grave danger to the nation and the rule of law.

So patently unconstitutional that they should trigger immediate arrests of for judicial insurrection.

The very notion that political parties have any control over elections or districting is what is actually unconstitutional.

This leapt out to me. The Supreme Court has previously said that even if partisan gerrymandering violates the Constitution, federal courts can't stop it.

Today, the Supreme Court declared that partisan gerrymandering does not violate the Constitution. That is very different!

foser, to random
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ZhiZhu,
@ZhiZhu@newsie.social avatar

"That helps explain how have held a majority of seats on the for 55 consecutive years despite losing the popular in seven of the last eight presidential elections: The majority on the Supreme Court interceded in an election to put a Republican loser in the White House where he could appoint two more Republican Supreme Court justices, perpetuating the Republican majority on the Court."

br00t4c, to random
@br00t4c@mastodon.social avatar

Another Provocative Flag Was Flown at Another Alito Home

The justice’s beach house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on Jan. 6 and associated with a push for a more Christian-minded government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

wdlindsy, to random
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"Now it turns out that a flag representing the idea that the 2020 election was stolen, that the people should engage in armed revolution against tyranny, and that the United States should be a nation based in Christian theology has been flying over the home of Justice Alito, who is supposed to be defending the United States Constitution impartially."

~ Heather Cox Richardson


/1

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-22-2024-ac2

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"Alito wrote the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion.

Election columnist Laura Bassett of The Cut wrote: 'The [A]lito flag story does not teach me anything new about his politics but it does reveal how confident he is that nobody can do anything about him.'”


/2

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"The Appeal to Heaven flag the Alitos flew is 'now a symbol of support for former President Donald J. Trump, for a religious strand of the "Stop the Steal" campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms.' …

It's perfect for carrying to your next insurrection, just like rioters did on January 6, 2021."

~ Joyce Vance


/3

https://joycevance.substack.com/p/another-flag-for-alito

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"The Pine Tree flag represents a MAGA trifecta: Support for Trump, insurrection, and Christian nationalism."

~ Robert B. Hubbell


/4

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/its-worse-than-we-thought-alito-must

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"The flag, which shows a single pine tree below the slogan “Appeal to Heaven,” dates to the American Revolution, but in recent years has been used by right-wing Christians associated with the 'New Apostolic Reformation' as a symbol of their efforts to turn this country into a theocracy, where all laws would be Biblically based."

~ Lucian K. Truscott



/5

https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/now-it-emerges-that-alito-also-flew

wdlindsy,
@wdlindsy@toad.social avatar

"Sam Alito is a problem.

That he should recuse himself from the Jan. 6 obstruction case and Trump immunity case is clear.

Alito’s actions go far beyond meeting the standard for recusal that his 'impartiality might reasonably be questioned.' It is unreasonable at this point not to question his impartiality.

He should recuse. But, he almost certainly won’t.

The real question now is what the court does about it."

~ Chris Geidner

#Alito #SupremeCourt #corruption
/7

https://www.lawdork.com/p/sam-alito-is-a-problem

pauvretype, to random French
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Un bon récap de la endémique en macronie. On a beau être informé, on en découvre toujours plus.
Si vous ne voulez pas vous énerver dès le réveil, évitez de lire l'article tout de suite...
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A69 : Comprendre le scandale d’État en 4 points et 10mn - Chroniques de l'écologie bourgeoise - Frustration Magazine
https://www.frustrationmagazine.fr/a69-scandale-d-etat-chroniques-ecologie-bourgeoise/

skykiss, to random
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

Remember, DoJ asked SCOTUS to take the case and it declined—saying he had to go to the appellate court first. You could argue that was “ordinary,” if gratuitous.

Then the appellate court issued a unanimous—airtight—decision. Standard practice would’ve been for SCOTUS to let it stand a matter of days after being asked to do so.
Instead, it waited weeks to declare it would—unnecessarily—take the case, then scheduled argument for April.

That’s 100% delaying the case for the criminal defendant who is charged with the most serious crimes against the United States of America.

And now we see Alito was signaling support for the insurrection.

LALegault, to random
@LALegault@newsie.social avatar

The Palestinian genocide has exposed so many things. You may not care about it, but the issues arising from it in : , , , , , etc. etc. will come to affect you— one way or another.

JorisBohnsonPM, to UKpolitics
@JorisBohnsonPM@mastodon.social avatar

“Rishi Sunak blocked veterans using their IDs at polling stations over fears it could “open the floodgates” to more students voting, a cabinet minister has revealed

Veterans minister Johnny Mercer complained he had tried “for months without success” to convince Downing Street to let veterans use their IDs to vote”

…If sunak wants to know about vote rigging all he has to do is to call trump

https://apple.news/A7I9mpBqyRCOUEWw7URGjPA

msquebanh, to magASEAN
@msquebanh@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

The push is being led by the #InvestmentMinister, Bahlil Lahadalia, who faces allegations of self-dealing & #corruption in the revocation & reissuance of #MiningPermits, according to reporting by #InvestigativeNews outlet Tempo. The proposed handouts are more of the same, critics say: payback to religious orgs for their support of President Joko Widodo’s preferred candidate in February’s election.

https://news.mongabay.com/2024/05/critics-see-payback-in-indonesias-plan-to-grant-mining-permits-to-religious-groups/

#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #SouthEastAsia #Indonesia #Mining #DirtyDeals

skykiss, to random
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

Since we now know Alito was flying his flag upside down at the time, let’s review one of the plans the coup plotters had involving him.

This interview by criminal defendant Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Pelosi reconvening Congress that day.

Crimal defendant Powell is interesting. It suggests that the purpose of the insurrection was to DELAY the electoral college certification to give time to intervene on this legal challenge. But, Powell says they didn’t anticipate Speaker Pelosi reconvening Congress.

skykiss, (edited )
@skykiss@sfba.social avatar

At the Alito's beach house, the "Appeal to Heaven" flag: "now a symbol of support for insurrectionist Donald Trump, for a religious strand of the “Stop the Steal” campaign and for a push to remake American government in Christian terms."

Provocative Flag Flown at Another Home. The justice’s house displayed an “Appeal to Heaven” flag, a symbol carried on associated with . flew the “Appeal to Heaven” flag outside the Alitos’ vacation home last summer.

Alito must recuse!

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