Why Is Alito Like This
OA 1034
With the recent news that a sitting Supreme Court justice was publicly displaying support for Trump\u2019s attempted coup in the days between January 6, 2021 and Joe Biden\u2019s inauguration, it\u2019s time to ask: Is Samuel Alito actually worse\xa0than our very low opinion of him? Also who could have possibly known\xa0that a hard-right Reagan/Buckley conservative who has been publicly advocating for ending abortion rights since 1985 would turn out to be the ultra-right Trump/Scalia conservative who ended abortion rights in 2022? We take these questions on after a quick look at the latest low point in Rudy Guiliani\u2019s long, steep, and often hilarious fall from grace. (N.B.: there\u2019s so much more to talk about here than we could possibly fit into an hour, we didn\u2019t even get to his awful decisions on the death penalty, among many other things.)
Finally, we learn the answer to last week\u2019s T3BE question and consider the multifarious liabilities of stocking a private lake full of piranhas.
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Alito\u2019s 1985 memo with strategies for overturning Roe v. Wade
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Alito\u2019s 1985 job application to the Office of Legal Counsel
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Doe v. Groody, 361 F.3d 232 (3rd Cir. 2004)(Alito dissent in qualified immunity case involving strip search of a 10-year-old girl)
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A Tiger on the Court: Sam Alito \u201872 at Princeton, Princeton Alumni Weekly (March 8, 2006)
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Justice Samuel Alito: ProPublica Misleads its Readers, Wall Street Journal\xa0(6/20/23) (Alito op-ed)
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Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court\u2019s Plain-Spoken Defender, Wall Street Journal (7/28/23) (editorial drawn from 4 hours of interviews with Alito)
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