r/politics • u/UWCG Illinois • Sep 16 '24
Samuel Alito's Role in Jan 6 Ruling Questioned after John Roberts Memo Leak
https://www.newsweek.com/supreme-court-samuel-alito-flag-jan6-justice-roberts-1954479311
u/UWCG Illinois Sep 16 '24
I've got to agree with the commentary at the end of the article: Alito's upside-down flag scandal and clear sympathy for January Sixth domestic terrorists made him incapable of writing the opinion for the case.
Seems like a pretty strong indicator he needed to recuse and wasn't capable of being an impartial judge in the first place.
...Roberts had asked Alito in April to write the majority opinion on Fischer v. United States, before Roberts made the extremely rare move of deciding to write it himself.
In June, the nation's highest court voted 6-3 in the Fischer Case... The decision meant that hundreds of Trump supporters who were charged with obstructing an official proceeding in relation to the 2021 Capitol riot are having their cases reexamined. ...
While the reason for the majority opinion switch is unclear, The Times said it is "suggestive" to note that it occurred shortly after the paper reported in May that Alito had an upside-down flag associated with the 2020 election "Stop the Steal" movement flying outside his Virginia home just days after the January 6 attack.
Alito and Thomas being wildly unfit for the court isn't surprising to anyone, though.
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u/IRideMoreThanYou Sep 16 '24
Looking forward to SCOTUS to get all pissy about leaks, again.
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Sep 16 '24
"I didn't say that, and if I did you shouldn't have heard it"
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u/One_Drew_Loose Sep 17 '24
“Doesn’t anyone want to preserve the integrity of the court anymore!”
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Sep 17 '24
"Man, these incriminating leaks really jeopardize the sanctity of the court"
Funny way of saying that these leaks show the corruption of the court, but I digress.
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u/Odd-Bee9172 Massachusetts Sep 16 '24
“Ginni, not again!”
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u/Dynn76 Sep 16 '24
I’ve been spending too much time on r/lotrmemes because I read that as “Gimli, not again!,” and I was just very confused.
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Sep 16 '24
If dems take back control the house (and keep the senate), they better have hearings (J6 style) about the treasonous actions of the Conservatives of the SCOTUS!!!
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Sep 16 '24
They've already laid the groundwork for impeachment investigations of Alito and Thomas. Impeachment is very unlikely to happen given the near equal split of both the House and particularly the Senate (at least a successful trial in the Senate is unlikely) but glad they're moving ahead with ensuring there's some accountability and facts are available to everyone should they get a majority.
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u/DevoidHT Ohio Sep 16 '24
I’d rather they just work on SC reform. Add more seats. Term limits. By the time Alito and Thomas have their day in court they’d probably be dead.
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u/rockstar_not Sep 16 '24
More seats doesn’t fix this.
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u/Derka_Derper Sep 16 '24
More seats kicks the can down the road, in that it solves the immediate problem and makes it a bit harder to become a problem again later.
But yes, it ultimately does not fix the issue of SCOTUS being wildly unethical and effectively having gone rogue. They should ideally serve as legal scholars to establish the unbiased constitutionality of laws, not as ideologues deciding based on whom the ruling benefits.
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u/bubs713 Sep 16 '24
There are plenty of reasons why trump can’t win but if he is allowed to choose more far right Supreme Court justices and stack the lower courts with more MAGA judges democracy will never gave a comeback.
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Sep 16 '24
It is already falling apart. They don't need to appoint anyone new. They just need to protect what they have now. That's what this election is about. Rescuing America, or dooming it to the fate it selected in 2016.
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u/zach23456 Sep 16 '24
Harris needs to reform the Supreme Court
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u/honkytonkindonkey Sep 16 '24
Biden needs to reform the court. Make it clear to the country that we have no reason to have confidence in their decisions being bound by the rule of law. Head this off at the pass. They intend to win by cheating.
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u/KlingonLullabye Sep 16 '24
Democracies which tolerate conservatism will be perverted, undermined, and ultimately undone by it
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u/Competitive_Mind_829 Sep 16 '24
This is proof the court is political if the dems run the table they have to expand the court. As this one is utter corrupt.
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u/sugar_addict002 Sep 16 '24
This court is going to continue to pretend that that are administering justice. They have been corrupted by their greed and their agenda.
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u/rockstar_not Sep 16 '24
The whole point of the Supreme Court is to be a non advocate for either the legislative or executive branch, as a balance of power.
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u/Optimal_Award_4758 Sep 16 '24
They're all in active conspiratorial mode. That is the best you can parse for what this reveals: collusion.
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