Question: How involved was Alito in the Insurrectionist's plans to overturn the election?

[Baitball Blogger]

Was he just a passing name that someone brought up? Was there ever an investigation to determine if it went deeper?

[Think. Again.]

1. You're raising an excellent point....

...considering ginni thomas' involvement that we know about, maybe the supreme court justices who are working to delay trump's convictions are doing that because they are trying to protect themselves from the exposure of their own involvement in the crimes leading up to Jan. 6?

[Baitball Blogger]

3. And that by definition is a conflict of interest.

Really would be mind-blowing if the hard right Supremes voted to get Trump off, and then we discovered their involvement. I imagine their rulings would be disqualified and overturned.

[Think. Again.]

5. And they would hopefully be tried themselves, too.

[Baitball Blogger]

11. America will be older and wiser. Let's just hope we don't have future leaders

who say we need the country to forgive, in order to heal. Worst way to go, because it is quite literally the reason we're here today. The Right never get held accountable for their evil actions, which is why they keep repeating their shenanigans.

[Think. Again.]

15. I absolutely, completely, 100% agree with you on that.

[Thunderbeast]

10. By whom?

[Baitball Blogger]

12. Elaborate and I'll answer your question.

[Thunderbeast]

19. It was suggested that Alito's decisions would be "overturned"

"I imagine their rulings would be disqualified and overturned".

Nobody can overturn a SCOTUS decision except SCOTUS. Justices can be impeached and removed...That requires 66 Senators to concur.

The new reality is that SCOTUS is just a third branch of a political system that has no investment in fairness, justice, or history. That ship has sailed!

[Baitball Blogger]

21. We have never been here before, have we?

In all other court situations, whenever some egregious wrong-doing or bias from a public official has been discovered, court cases are overturned.

Are you telling me that the rest of the nation will allow this Court's decisions to stand if they discovered that one or more of these Supremes were part of an inner circle that wanted to undermine an election? I suspect that there would be rioting in the streets if it were discovered because their decisions have negatively impacted on many people's lives.

[brooklynite]

2. None whatsoever.....unless you have some evidence.

I'm not aware of any.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Someone brought his name up when they divulged the grand plan.

but it's too late at night to check the data banks. I'll pin this and look for it tomorrow.

[Think. Again.]

6. Please do, I'd like to see what you find.

[dpibel]

7. Absence of evidence

is proof of absence, right?

Damn, you're a hella debater.

[brooklynite]

14. No, but its a starting point.

[Think. Again.]

16. I believe that's what OP is asking about.

[brooklynite]

17. And I'm offering a response based on what we know today.

[FelineOverlord]

8. It was Sidney Powell

Who brought up Alito and said he was part of it

[Baitball Blogger]

9. Thank you.

And I bid everyone a good night.

[Hugin]

13. Best quote from this video...

“You have to win first, to have it stolen from you.”

Overall, a good discussion of how on Jan 6th the Trumpians somehow drew Alito for their fever dream of an injunction forcing Pence to somehow use the 12th Amendment with Louie Gohmert as the plaintiff. (this is all going on DURING the insurrection ‘with blood and broken glass’ in the Capitol building) Then Speaker Pelosi, quickly filed an amicus brief against the injunction, but just to be sure. Speaker Pelosi immediately reconvened the House and completed the process as soon as the Capitol Police and National Guard had cleared the building. Note: At no time during this did Trump ever call for calm. He only choked a SS Agent and threw a fit because they wouldn’t take him to the Capitol.

[modrepub]

18. I Don't Think Alito Is "Involved"

Reading some of his questions during the hearing, I think Alito genuinely believes tfg did nothing wrong trying to undo the election and stay in office.

[GiqueCee]

20. The conservative cesspool...

... of malice, mendacity, and corruption has no bottom.

[republianmushroom]

22. Good question, but there will be no answer or investigation.

Way to political for an investigation.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Unless someone gives evidence in order to lessen their sentence.

That's why, if there is a conflict of interest, we're all in deep doo-doo. The implicated Justice(s) would move hell and highwater to avoid being exposed.