“The thing with Sam Alito is that he doesn’t give a fuck. He is a seventy-something Fox News watcher and religious fundamentalist who happens to find himself in a position of immense and almost incomparable power over all of American society and he’s going to take that power to the limit to advance his own political preferences. He’s not even going to go through the motions of pretending that’s not the case.”
Josh Marshall understands Alito all too well. Gift link:
@JamesGleick our current #SCOTUS is a result of efforts by evangelical zealots to pack the court — as illustrated in the documentary Jesus Camp (2006).