Liberal activist and documentary filmmaker Lauren Windsor posted the audio on X Monday and shared it with Rolling Stone. In the exchanges, Windsor posed as a conservative hostile to abortion rights and supportive of the Alitos.
Politico
Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living “peacefully” with ideological opponents in the face of “fundamental” differences that “can’t be compromised.” He endorsed what his interlocutor described as a necessary fight to “return our country to a place of godliness.” And Alito offered a blunt assessment of how America’s polarization will ultimately be resolved: “One side or the other is going to win.”
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The justice’s unguarded comments highlight the degree to which Alito makes little effort to present himself as a neutral umpire calling judicial balls and strikes, but rather as a partisan member of a hard-right judicial faction that’s empowered to make life-altering decisions for every American.
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Similar questions Windsor asked of Chief Justice John Roberts at the same event elicited a far different response.
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Roberts takes issue with Windsor’s assertion that the nation is unusually polarized, historically, citing the high tensions of the Vietnam War era, for example. He also insists that the Supreme Court’s current role is not exceptional. “The idea that the court is in the middle of a lot of tumultuous stuff going on is nothing new,” Roberts says.
Pressed on whether the court has an obligation to put the country on a more “moral path,” Roberts turns the tables on his questioner: “Would you want me to be in charge of putting the nation on a more moral path?” He argues instead: “That’s for people we elect. That’s not for lawyers.” Presented with the claim that America is a “Christian nation” and that the Supreme Court should be “guiding us in that path,” Roberts again disagrees, citing the perspectives of “Jewish and Muslim friends,” before asserting, “It’s not our job to do that. It’s our job to decide the cases the best we can.”
Rolling Stone
In that whacko complaining screed, Martha Ann says the word "vergogna" - and she spells it - saying it means shame. I don't know why she doesn't just say shame, but Hakeem Jeffries has a nice responsive tweet...
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
UPDATE 06/12/2024:
Which I found odd in that she announced her German heritage. Does she not know the German word for shame?[Martha Alito] the quintessential handmaiden for white Christian nationalism in lipstick and pearls.
In the same recording, Justice Alito warned, “One side or the other is going to win. There are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised,” about the country’s widening divide between the majority who understands the Constitution and the concept of separation of Church and state and the minority that wants to create a Christian theocracy. Instead of keeping her husband in check, recordings of Martha-Ann make her out to be a Christian nationalist Lady Macbeth.
Martha-Ann Alito embarks on a strange, homophobic rant against LGBTQ+ people and doubles down on flying her freaky flags. “I want a Sacred Heart of Jesus flag because I have to look across the lagoon at the Pride flag for the next month,” she tells Windsor. “Oh, please, don’t put up a flag,” Alito replies. She adds she would make up her own flag with yellow and orange flames that read “Shame” in Italian.
The Left Hook
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