In a #new, secret recording, the #SupremeCourt justice suggests partisan funding is to blame for coverage of justices’ undisclosed luxury #gifts
In a new recording, #SCOTUS Justice Samuel #Alito lashes out at the news organization #ProPublica, describing the news organization’s #Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the #SupremeCourt as driven by #political animus, insisting: “They don’t like our decisions.”
She tells Rolling Stone that #Alito’s comments about #ProPublica are “really indicative of the sort of #grievance that he carries — or this sort of thumbing his nose at ethical standards he thinks he should not be subjected to.”
"Former President Donald J. Trump has baselessly and publicly cast doubt about the fairness of the 2024 election about once a day, on average, since he announced his candidacy for president, according to an analysis by The New York Times."
"Though the tactic is familiar — Mr. Trump raised the specter of a 'rigged' election in the 2016 and 2020 cycles, too — his attempts to undermine the 2024 contest are a significant escalation."
"Three stories shaping our news this week have crystalized the stakes in this election: It’s either their Republic, or no Republic at all. …
The evidence is now clear: They want a return to patriarchal white Christian rule, and to block our long journey toward a multi-racial, egalitarian, secular society."
"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."
"The unfortunate truth is that Republicans, under Trump’s influence, no longer accept that Democrats can legitimately win elections. This isn’t a run of the mill ideological difference between the parties. It’s the ruin of American democracy."
"Let’s be clear about what this means. Alito is giving our entire democracy the finger. He has expressed public allyship with the enemies of our Constitution instead of upholding his oath of office. And he’s also a coward and a liar, unwilling to speak his traitorous words aloud, yet ready to throw his wife under the bus the moment he’s questioned about these displays."
"If Alito refuses to recuse himself from cases involving Trump, Congress should impeach and convict him of no less than tending to prostitute the high judicial character with which he was invested, to the low purpose of blatant partisanship. That is, of violating the basic tenets of impartial justice, on which public trust for the high court is based."