“One side or the other is going to win,” Justice Alito told the woman, Lauren Windsor, at an exclusive gala at the Supreme Court. “There can be a way of working, a way of living together peacefully, but it’s difficult, you know, because there are differences on fundamental things that really can’t be compromised.”
When any man pretends to know the will of God, he becomes unreachable, answering only to himself, and debating others with nothing but the evidence of his own presumptuous divine knowledge.
Living together peacefully is the whole work of human life and society. For the position he is in, saying “it’s just too hard” should be regarded as a resignation.
Has Alito always been this way and just hid it? Like if you go through his previous rulings on religious issues, are they consistent with this worldview, or has the current overt extremism always been there but just more quiet?
I mean, I haven’t done an exhaustive look into his jurisprudence, but from the opinions I have read yeah. He’s always been federalist society wackjob to the core.
Thanks for the response - at least from my perspective, he always managed to fly under the radar compared to Thomas, Scalia, etc, but to be fair I haven’t been keeping a close eye on things in that arena that perhaps I should have been now that this is becoming so evident.
I’m personally a fan of the podcast 5-4 if you’d like some leftist legal perspective regarding the supreme court. They’re the ones who originally put him on my radar
Appreciate the suggestion, adding it now!