Display at Alito’s Home Renews Questions of Supreme Court’s Impartiality

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1. New York Times is so fucking weird.

2. There have never been questions about the impartiality of the supreme court. There has always been bias. As long as there are lifetime appointments with no measure of objectivity there is no accountability, which means bias can run wild without consequence.

3. Questions of impartiality? We’re facing an obvious threat to democracy and the rule of law.

4. Renews?

5. Questions? I have never flown the US flag upside down as a symbol of support for an insurrection and then blamed my wife.

   He is a SCOTUS judge. Lets start there.

6. There will never be such a thing as impartiality unless you have a system that rotate who decides which case. Having the same nine people decide every case practically asks for conflicts of interest.

7. Velvet gloves when a slap is needed.

8. “Renews questions”? I’d think displaying that flag at that time _answers_ questions about the court’s impartiality.

9. Impartiality? What a fucking joke.

10. Alito has never pretended to be impartial. He’s Leonard Leo’s bucket-boy and makes no pretense of being otherwise.

11. I want to see an interview of the neighbor. He’s now a folk hero.

12. Trump is mad that a Judge is a democrat and overseeing his case. Yet this is fine.

13. I have zero doubts about his absolute partiality/partisanship.

14. Biden seems to be hanging pretty loose lately. I would love to hear him say, “IMO, Thomas and Alito are a couple of compromised scumbags who should recuse themselves from at least cases X Y and Z. And if they don’t, I’m court packing because they give me no other option.”

    But he doesn’t do that. Why exactly?

15. Pack a court with GOP hacks and failed ambulance chasers and doodoo happens, yes?

16. We are way the fuck past “questions.”

    Pussyfooting does not equal good journalism, NYT. Get your shit together (I know they won’t).

17. His entire job revolves around the presumption of impartiality. Supreme Court Justices are supposed to be above reproach, which I expect to carry into their public life. I don’t care if you pray to an orange budda statue with Trump’s greasy face on it inside your house, but everything you present to the public should appear upstanding. I should never know which president an SC judge is voting for. There’s like “duh we know” but it should never be announced in their actions or activities.

18. What impartiality? They have not been impartial since they started mixing religion with politics and basing their decisions on their religious beliefs, there is no impartiality, they are a total failure of the blind justice system.

19. Disqualifies Alito, the traitor currently rigging the system for his guy the RAPIST while on his way to making America a theocracy.

20. It’s not that he’s a MAGA that’s clear, it’s that he is an idiot, that’s much worse. There is no evidence that the election was stolen and this judge looked at that lack of evidence and made this call.

21. I have no questions about Alito’s impartiality. He has none.

22. Calls lots of things into question. Gullibility for one. No one with a brain believed Trump’s election fraud lies.

23. They are not impartial. If they were the R and D party would not make such a huge deal about getting to nominate them. It wouldn’t matter.

24. You mean, it questions whether they are hell bent on destroying the nation.

25. highest court is corrupt. him and Clarence both need to be sent to prison for their roles in supporting overthrow of government.

26. That pole looks temporary.

27. “Renews questions”

28. At least, they show great maturity, great to know that the suprême court is in good hands.

29. Why are we just learning about this?

30. Only for the media. SCROTUS been suspect forever. Worse after bush v gore, then Citizens United. Then Dobbs. Now protecting trump.

31. This display answers far more questions than it poses.

32. Don’t understand why the scotus wife would think that a “Fuck Trump” sign (if it even existed, sounds like a lie) was directed at her.

33. No it doesn’t. It raises questions about whether or not he is coherent enough to live on his own without a guardian, let alone be employed by the government, let alone be a Supreme Court god damn justice. Stop the fucking steal? From an alleged arbiter of facts? Jesus fucking Christ we’ve reached full parody mode.

34. *clears throat* they’ve never been impartial

35. There is no question on the Supreme Court’s impartiality. The Court is a major disfunction in US government.

36. My fear, is this upside down flag is a dog whistle to the far right to tell them “we have the court”. If the Supreme Court issues a ruling contrary to the rule of law which hands the election to Trump, it will likely lead to civil war.

37. There is no question. Alito is unfit to hold office. The only problem is that impeachment is nearly impossible.

38. Come on. Clarence takes bribes. Alito is a partisan. Just say it. The legal professions as a whole are a joke if their highest authorities are corrupt, so the stakes of admitting it are high. But it is what it is. At some point you can’t say it’s just a leak in the hull.

39. If anything it ANSWERS questions about impartiality.