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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
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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
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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
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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."
"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
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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
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@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.
@wdlindsy@toad.social@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.