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Re: Alito's politically charged address draws heat

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Fri, 13 Nov 20 4:52 PM | 38 view(s)
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I see his problem and that of conservatives who want to party like it's 1779. The world changes. They want it to stay the same, as if the rules that worked in the early Republic will hold forever. Their judicial philosophy is doomed to make them more and more antique, like those people who believe the Ten Commandments remain useful or that one should submit to the text of the Koran.

Change is the big rule the world enforces on us. It doesn't care if we want it to stop. Contagions do their thing unless you respond. If you don't respond because doing so contradicts your principles, then maybe you need to contemplate your principles, as the contagion just doesn't care. We evolve, or we become bigots and we die.

Forgive me, but Alito often comes across as not a very perceptive justice. These aren't fascinating comments, are they. He should at least describe the underlying dynamics at work in his own field.

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Alito's politically charged address draws heat
By: clo in ALEA
Fri, 13 Nov 20 2:32 PM 		Msg. 39744 of 54959

OMG, we are in for a world of hurt with these justices in control.

Alito's politically charged address draws heat

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito abandoned any semblance of judicial impartiality in an incendiary speech on Thursday night. In his address to the Federalist Society, Alito described the COVID-19 crisis as a “constitutional stress test” that’s threatening religious liberty, saying: “We have never before seen restrictions as severe, extensive and prolonged as those experienced for most of 2020.” He also said freedom of speech is “falling out of favor,” explaining: “You can’t say that marriage is a union between one man and one woman... Until very recently that’s what a vast majority of Americans thought. Now its considered bigotry.”

University of Baltimore law professor and former federal prosecutor Kim Wehle described Alito’s comments as “biased, political, and even angry,” and added: “This speech is like I woke up from a vampire dream.”

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http://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/13/alito-speech-religious-freedom-436412

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