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What would be Alito's arguments for overturning Supreme Court precedents? Whose constitutional rights are you referring to when you say "our" constitutional rights? The Obergefell decision affirmed the constitutional right to equal protection of the laws in a matter that involves only the relationship between individual Americans and government under civil law, as have other decisions that he doesn't like, in a situation in which the right of an outside party to practice whatever religion is not even implicated.Alito is right.During a speech before the Federalist Society on Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito lamented that “tolerance for opposing views is now in short supply in many law schools and in the broader academic community.” And stated that recent law school graduates repeatedly tell him “that they face harassment and retaliation if they say anything that departs from the law school orthodoxy.”
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Later on, Alito talked about a “growing hostility to the expression of unfashionable views.” He referenced the 1972 George Carlin “seven dirty words” routine and stated that “Today, you can see shows on your TV screen in which the dialogue appears at time to consist almost entirely of those words. Carlin’s list seems like a quaint relic. But it would be easy to put together a new list called: Things You Can’t Say if You’re a Student or a Professor at a College or University, or an Employee of Many Big Corporations. And there wouldn’t just be seven items on that list. Seventy times seven would be closer to the mark.”
Alito: 'Tolerance for Opposing Views Is Now in Short Supply in Many Law Schools'
During a speech before the Federalist Society on Thursday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito lamented that "tolerance for opposing views is now in short | Clipswww.breitbart.com
This type of thing is poised now to get worse...We see in here the intolerance for the opposition among progressives, and liberals toward conservatives not only with viewpoints, but ideology period...I like Justice Alito and concerned for the future of this country as a conservative....What say you?
Alito delivered a well-deserved shot at the execrable Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. The recent brief filed by the vile Senator and four equally vile colleagues in a case regarding a New York City firearms transportation ordinance. Whitehouse and his colleagues said that a pro-gun ruling would further incite the growing movement to “restructure” the Court. Alito accurately described the brief as an affront to the Constitution and the rule of law.”
As the Washington Post acknowledges, the Whitehouse brief was criticized even by some Democrats as too threatening. And the late Justice Ginsburg denounced the idea of court packing — the threat through which Whitehouse was trying to intimidate the Court.
Alito’s address has drawn howls from the left, however, the speech raises no problems of judicial ethics.
On all the matters that these clowns finds controversial, the speech broadly reiterates what Alito has already spelled out in his written opinions. By contrast, Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s speeches, the ones that used to draw gushing praise from the left, addressed open issues on which the justice hadn’t yet ruled — e.g., same sex marriage and President Trump’s tax returns.
Lying Lizzy Warren slammed Justice Alito’s speech. She tweeted:
This is lying Warren admitting that Alito’s speech did not violate any ethical rules for Supreme Court Justices and that she is engaging in mindless, empty name-calling.
Along with Justice Thomas, Justice Alito has fought valiantly on behalf of our constitutional rights. And starting this term, I expect that they will be ably aided in the struggle by the notorious Justice Barrett.
Religions make their own rules that apply to their adherents. They don't apply to people who are not adherents. Alito is trying to use civil law to impose his Roman Catholic beliefs on all Americans, regardless of what faith, if any, they follow. I guess that he would uphold a civil law banning divorce, which we know breaks up families, with the result that all divorces would be null and void, and all of the divorced would still be legally married to their first legal spouse.
Alito is the embodiment of what Americans feared during the election of 1960.
As we are told about SC decisions we don’t like, such as Roe, we have to live with it...If you want something to be law, make a law. If you want a right amend the Constitution. Otherwise, live with it.
