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"Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living 'peacefully' with ideological opponents in the face of 'fundamental' differences that 'can’t be compromised.' He endorsed what his interlocutor described as a necessary fight to 'return our country to a place of godliness.'"
~ Tessa Stuart and Tim Dickinson
"And Alito offered a blunt assessment of how America’s polarization will ultimately be resolved: 'One side or the other is going to win.'
Alito made these remarks in conversation at the Supreme Court Historical Society’s annual dinner on June 3, a function that is known to right-wing activists as an opportunity to buttonhole Supreme Court justices."
"Behind the closed doors of a private $500 a plate dinner filled with lobbyists for Christian conservative organizations and the billionaire oligarchs who support them, Samuel Alito let his freak flag fly. For the rest of his time on the Supreme Court, this man will do everything in his power to rewrite the Constitution the Founders so carefully crafted to guard against the religious zealotry of the monarchy they had overthrown."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Alito
/3
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/the-private-alito-is-even-worse-than
"If Justice Alito is making comments like this to a random person at a public dinner, what is he saying to his close confidants? What is he doing on the bench? How can he possibly deliver impartial justice when he so casually expresses these views? Judges are supposed to conduct themselves in a manner that ensures questions like these are never asked about them."
~ Joyce Vance
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #Constitution
/4
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/still-digging-justice-alito
"Many people will find [Lauren Windsor's] tactics questionable. This was the justification Windsor offered: 'Because the Supreme Court is shrouded in secrecy, and they’re refusing to submit to any accountability in the face of overwhelming evidence of serious ethics breaches, I think that it’s justified to take these types of measures.'”
"In those brief comments, Alito eviscerated the disingenuous reasoning of Dobbs and made clear that the reactionary majority was exercising brute force in imposing their religious views on all Americans--i.e., 'returning our country to a place of (their view) of godliness.' The opinion in Dobbs was a sham."
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #Constitution #abortion #RoevWade #Dobbs
/6
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/alito-confirms-what-we-all-suspected
"Equally disturbing were comments by Martha Alito, who railed against the fact that she was forced to look at Gay Pride flags from her beach house. She suggested that she could not wait until Justice Alito retired, at which point she would hoist a flag with yellow flames bearing the Italian word for 'shame'—presumably referring to her belief that gay Americans would be subjected to the flames of hell and should be ashamed of their lifestyle."
@wdlindsy@toad.social"Alito’s remarks are notable because ... he is now, as the cliché goes, saying the quiet part out loud. Martha-Ann might be the half of the Alito couple who likes to make statements using actual flags, but Strip Search Sammy is also showing his true colors."
~ Greg Olear
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #Constitution #Catholic #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety
/8
https://gregolear.substack.com/p/sam-alito-and-the-campaign-to-defend
"For me, what stood about the exchange was how similar Alito’s remarks were to comments other members of the radical Catholic cabal have recently made. This business of 'one side or the other is going to win' suggests a Manichean view of social issues, especially abortion and LGBT rights."
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #abortion #LGBTQ #Constitution #Catholic #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety
/9
"According to the radical Catholics, there is a great battle going on between the forces of good (i.e., Catholic extremism) and evil (i.e., anyone who believes in abortion rights and acknowledges that gay people exist). …
What Strip Search Sammy told Windsor is nothing new. He merely confirmed what we already know, which is this:"
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #abortion #LGBTQ #Constitution #Catholic #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety
/10
"There is a powerful cabal of radical Catholic extremists who seek to strip away our civil rights in the name of God. This cabal has captured the Supreme Court, which will continue to issue reactionary rulings that put the lives of millions of Americans in jeopardy, to make the country hew to their retrograde religious beliefs."
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #abortion #LGBTQ #Constitution #Catholic #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety
/11
"They see this as a holy war: true believers against the infidels. And in their Manichean classification system, most of us are infidels.
Leonard Leo & Co. will not stop until they get their way, and the United States is a full-blown Christian theocracy."
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #abortion #LGBTQ #Constitution #Catholic #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety
/12
"Good God, between Mrs. Alito and Ginni Thomas, the Supreme Court’s Christmas party must be a hoot."
~ Gary Legum
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #abortion #LGBTQ #Constitution #Catholic #LeonardLeo #FederalistSociety
/13
https://www.wonkette.com/p/secret-recordings-of-alitos-reveal
"Alito’s secretly recorded remarks about his true beliefs will come as no surprise to anyone. The remarks signaling his religious bias are like the flags flown in front of his houses signaling his political partisanship.
But what is lost in these revelations is the naive hope that justices of the Supreme Court put reason over personal bias, logic over religious preference, and public duty over partisanship."
~ Robert Reich
"A sitting U.S. Supreme Court justice has just admitted his belief that there are 'fundamental' things that cannot be compromised—because you cannot 'split the difference' and ultimately 'one side or the other is going to win.' This is an ideologically cemented view of the law that confirms both pre-judgment of social and political issues and that the justice will act in a partisan, rather than a judicial, manner."
~ Jay Kuo
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt
/15
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-secret-alito-recordings
"Justice Alito has confirmed his utter abandonment of the principle of separation of church and state. Again, looking at his oath, it was to the 'Constitution and the laws of the United States,' and not to any church or religious text. And yet, he agreed with Windsor when she said that the nation had to 'return to a place of godliness.'”
"Mrs. Alito’s unhinged rant continued with a threat to 'get even' with the media. Mrs. Alito responded to Windsor’s sympathy about bad news coverage by saying: 'It’s OK. It’s OK, because if they come back to me, I’ll get them. I’m gonna be liberated, and I’m gonna get them.'”
~ Scott Dworkin
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #Constitution
/17
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/martha-ann-alito-unfurls-maga-flag
“'Look at me, look at me. I’m German,' Martha-Ann said. 'I’m from Germany. My heritage is German. You come after me, I’m gonna give it back to you. And there will be a way, it doesn’t have to be now, but there will be a way they will know. Don’t worry about it.”'
"Simply put, Alito and his cadre of Right Wing radical judges, are representations of a larger movement that is dedicated and obsessed with restructuring America into an overtly authoritarian society. Their religious beliefs, their ideologies, their worldviews, and even their legal training and philosophies, have been shaped explicitly for this purpose."
~ Jared Yates Sexton
#Alito #theocracy #SupremeCourt #democracy #Constitution
/19
https://jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-quiet-part-out-loud-alito-confirms
@wdlindsy
And then she quoted Italian, vergogna, (shame) when describing a flag she’d like to design to put up at the beach house, seemingly to piss of those “across the lagoon” from her. She seems a little off her rocker, and very angry at anyone who disagrees with her.
@nancyann Very much a little off her rocker! And spewing this astonishing venom to a perfect stranger she just met….
@wdlindsy
The arrogance is astounding.
@nancyann It is — and with no corrective in sight.
@wdlindsy
And plans to sue the media for defamation when Alito retires.
@nancyann That's right!
@DemocracyMattersALot That sums her up to a T.
Someone take the letters from "MAGA" and find some words that basically says, "No Accountability for Powerful White People."
@MylesRyden A challenging project — my own brain's not very good at spinning clever acronyms, but someone probably could do that.
@GAC I believe Wonkette is considered to be something like that.
@wdlindsy Err..Catholic theocracy. The protestants will be upset. What could go wrong?
@wdlindsy There are many American Catholics who don't think the Pope is Catholic. We think of the Christianist Right as being Protestant. It's being driven by right-wing Catholics.
It is definitely both and historically more evangelical, but the last couple decades has seen a radical catholicism to match, and they increasingly are more comfortable with each other than moderates or non-Christians.
@DavidM_yeg @DanaBlankenhorn Yes, this has gone on since the US Catholic bishops made a fateful alliance with white evangelicals who were in an uproar about the federal government's role in knocking down racial segregation barriers. From that time forward, the US bishops on the whole and right-wing Catholics have willingly allied themselves with white evangelicals who made a grand exodus to the Republican party after Democrats supported civil rights legislation.
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@DavidM_yeg @DanaBlankenhorn The bishops and their right-wing Catholic allies have tended to let white evangelicals do the public culture-war thing while the bishops and their right-wing Catholic followers have tended to work quietly behind the scenes, seeking to gain control of the Supreme Court, a goal at which they have succeeded spectacularly. All of the members of the right-wing bloc controlling the court are Catholic except for Gorsuch, who was raised Catholic.
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Thanks for this… Catholicism in Canada has had a very different flavour because of its history in Quebec, but the political right has recently seen Catholics like Jason Kenney and Pierre Poilievre take leading roles.
@DavidM_yeg @DanaBlankenhorn Yes, you're right, a very different flavor in Canada, something I saw first-hand as a theology student at University of St. Michael's College of the Toronto School of Theology in my six years living there. The extremism to which parts of US culture have traditionally succumbed just isn't there much in Canadian culture. I'd note that Father Coughlin was, however, Canadian.
Yes, and former Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was thoroughly radicalized American style as a student at the Saint Ignatius Institute in USF.
@DanaBlankenhorn I think this is precisely part of the point that Greg Olear, who was raised Catholic, is making. But he's well-aware, as an educated observer of what's going on in American politics and culture right now, that the Christianist Right is comprised by a coalition of right-wing Catholics and right-wing Protestants who are largely white evangelicals — after the US Catholic bishops made common cause with white evangelicals in the latter half of the 20th century.
The real problem with all of this, that I think even the supporters of Alito don't really understand is that even HE can't define what "godliness" is. Ironically, it is like pornography, he just knows it when he sees it.
Today it is abortion, tomorrow contraception and then criminalizing any premarital sex. Whatever "god" whispers into his perverted ear. No matter which side of the line you think you are on now, you can just as easily be on the "wrong" side tomorrow. Even Alito doesn't know where the line will be next week.
This is exactly why the Founders wisely kept religion and law separate.
@MylesRyden I think that for Alito and his ilk, "godliness" is a tautological concept. It's what I represent, what I choose, what I stand for, and by definition, not what you represent, choose, and stand for. It's a code word for the us-vs.-them analysis of the world on which the hard right thrives.