Alito is a dick to Justice Ginsburg

[n2doc]

By Dana Milbank, Monday, June 24, 5:07 PM

The most remarkable thing about the Supreme Court’s opinions announced Monday was not what the justices wrote or said. It was what Samuel Alito did.

The associate justice, a George W. Bush appointee, read two opinions, both 5-4 decisions that split the court along its usual right-left divide. But Alito didn’t stop there. When Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg read her dissent from the bench, Alito visibly mocked his colleague.

Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the high court, was making her argument about how the majority opinion made it easier for sexual harassment to occur in the workplace when Alito, seated immediately to Ginsburg’s left, shook his head from side to side in disagreement, rolled his eyes and looked at the ceiling.

His treatment of the 80-year-old Ginsburg, 17 years his elder and with 13 years more seniority, was a curious display of judicial temperament or, more accurately, judicial intemperance. Typically, justices state their differences in words — and Alito, as it happens, had just spoken several hundred of his own from the bench. But he frequently supplements words with middle-school gestures.

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Typical entitled Bushie Prick.

[shenmue]

1. I wonder...

if we'll just have to wait for Alito's generation to die out. It may never get better otherwise.

[BehindTheCurtain76]

43. He's too young

NSA's Russ Tice said last week that in early-mid 2000s he was personally ordered to analyze Alitos wiretaps...how come no one here is talking about this?

[muntrv]

2. Bet he picked that up from Scalia. That's why I call him SCALITO.

[malaise]

5. Why - have you forgotten his behaviour at the State of the Union? n/t

[dsc]

15. actually Scalia for all his faults

is reputedly a very personable man, and is actually good friends with Ginsberg (they share a love of opera).

[adieu]

76. I bet he just love

Pretending to be Baron Scarpia to Ginsburg's Tosca.

[merrily]

41. Nope. Scalia and Ginsburg are buddies socially, for all their political differences.

[pangaia]

78. How does she put up with that man?

Blechkk

[Joanie Baloney]

3. (Editing the title of the OP)

Alito is a dick....period.

[jehop61]

4. Same juvenile behavior

he showed at the State of the Union Address a few years ago. Me thinks his "judicial temperament" is flawed.

[avaistheone1]

31. Alito is remarkably rude. Very immature behavior for a grown man, especially one seated on

the highest court in the land. He is a terrible embarrassment.

[We People]

74. His wife is also prone to drama at times, during his congressional approval hearings

when objections to his nomination were being heard. I wonder what the emotional dynamics are like at home.

[graham4anything]

6. ONE. It will only take ONE more vote.

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4 to 5 will become 5 to 4

(and well, you all know...let's remember to give Ralph Nader a big thanks for his help in putting Alito on the court.

straight democratic, hold the senate, keep the Presidency win the House.

[onehandle]

13. I can't break your code.

Help me out.

[NBachers]

30. I can- and it's the first thing I thought when I heard about this ruling.

Although, I think Graham meant to request we vote "straight Democrat," not "straight republican."

[graham4anything]

35. Yup. edited.

[eShirl]

47. All by himself, huh?

sure.

[Ikonoklast]

49. Wrong. Gore won the election, the USSC stopped him from winning Florida.

Gore lost because the radical Republican activist court picked the winner.

[Progressive dog]

68. One more vote

One of your more understandable posts. I agree with all of it.

[William769]

7. Alito is is just a plain dick! n/t

[sad-cafe]

8. his wifey might cry if he gets too much flack

the jerk

[Link Speed]

9. You left out "pencil".

Didn't he pull some stunt such as that during a SOTU address?

What a punk.

I remember his wife's crap during confirmation hearings.

[pacalo]

10. He did the same thing when "Citizens United" was brought up in Obama's SOTU speech.

He clearly isn't of the caliber expected of a SC justice.

[dmr]

16. He sure did. Unprofessional behavior.

We expect more from our judges.

Showing blatant public disrespect toward another jurist leads me to believe he's a bully and abusive in other areas of his life.

[mountain grammy]

20. That caliber is pretty low these days with the fearful five.

Scalia and Thomas both look ripe for a heart attack. Pure meanness keeping this bunch going.

[merrily]

46. Yes, but there are differences.

First, Obama had just attacked a decision of the Supreme Court during the SOTU.

Ginsburg had not attacked Alito.

Second, Alito shook his head no. Maybe he even mouthed the word "no.".

That was not the tradition at the SOTU, but it was disagreement with Obama's interpretation of Citizens United, not mocking Obama. Mocking is far more disrespectful than disagreement on issues.

And Obama was not an 80 year old fellow Justice, in an institution that prides itself on collegiality.

Tradition entitles the President to speak at the SOTU without back talk from Congress or the Justices and he is entitled to respect, too, but I think what Alito did to Ginsburg was worse than what he did to Obama.

[pacalo]

64. I agree wholeheartedly.

The fact that it was the second time he had behaved that way was my focus. Doing it one time is enough, but doing it a second time indicates a weak character for a man of his position.

[CK_John]

11. Alito showing signs of early dementia (IMO). nt

[silvershadow]

25. One could only hope, only provided someone intervenes quickly to remove him from the bench. nt

[rhett o rick]

65. Not easy to make that determination for a conservative. nm

[tk2kewl]

12. the onion must be an NSA plot

[DirkGently]

14. He rolled his eyes when Obama criticized Citizens United too.

He does seem smug and entitled. So does Roberts. And Scalia ...

[GoCubsGo]

73. Yep.

This comes latest petty behavior comes as no surprise, in light of that. What a vile piece of work he is.

[yourout]

17. Alito should have been filibustered....no ands ifs or buts.

[Botany]

18. Alito is a pig

@ Princeton and afterwards Alito led the fight to keep women out of Princeton's
grad programs. The media covered up what he was really about ..... the man doesn't
like women or monorities and he is nasty at his core.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

19. fuck you, fucking CONservative.

goddammit I hate conservatives so FUCKING much.....




FUCK YOU, FUCKING PHONY MORALIZING POS SCUM HOLIER THAN THOU HYPOCRITE FECAL SMEAR SEWAGE SWILLING EVIL ARROGANT SCOURGES ON HUMANITY AND THE SHAME OF THE PLANET I FUCKING HATE YOU!!!

[dhill926]

28. well said........

[BlancheSplanchnik]

67. I did my best!

they stink!

[fasttense]

50. Don't hold back.....Tell us how you really feel? n/t

[BlancheSplanchnik]

66. ...

they suck!

[blkmusclmachine]

22. .

.

[TheKentuckian]

23. Alito is a dick in the morning. Alito is a dick at noontime. Alito is a dick at night.

Alito is a dick winter, spring, summer, and fall.

Alito is a dick on Christmas Eve. Alito is a dick on Saint Valentine but that might be when he is the least dick of all or so said his wife.

[Lugal Zaggesi]

24. Alito is a lightweight jerk

Too bad Bush didn't get his first choice for replacing Sandra Day O'Connor, before he was forced to pick Alito:

intellectual heavyweight Harriet Myers, with gravitas up the wazoo,
no bad habits picked up from having been a lesser Judge, ever -
and with an absolutely clean slate on all the important issues of the day,
keeping herself unburdened of any preconceived ideas about cases that might come before the Supreme Court.

Harriet Myers - impartial, serious, free from any feelings of obligation or inferiority to the Executive Branch of the Government that wanted to nominate her.

She would have been the type of Conservative Associate Justice of the Supreme Court that we've all come to expect in the 21st century:

[TexasTowelie]

69. What?

Did you forget the tag? She was a Bush shill with no expertise to make judicial rulings and would have voted as she was told to by the other conservative justices on the court.

[Lugal Zaggesi]

86. There's a sarcasm tag ?

OK - maybe I should have used that then.

But I thought the over-the-top "praise" was pretty clearly sarcastic -
especially "with gravitas up the wazoo".

Yeah, she was pretty much Bush's incompetent puppy.

[SunSeeker]

26. Alito is such an ass. nt

[Poll_Blind]

27. Alito is a total fuckface. nt

PB

[PlanetBev]

29. I can't believe Alito Is my age

Didn't this guy ever own a bong or a roach clip?

[Chan790]

34. Kidding, right?

He was probably the inspiration for this asshole:

[No Vested Interest]

32. He is a cad.

One has to remember with some of these men-

that they were family's prize darling, praised from their earliest days for their good grades and pride they brought to Mama and Papa. Instead of athletics, they excelled scholastically and never got over themselves.

Some people just never get past that.

[Rhiannon12866]

33. Geez!!! I just saw a pic of the justices on TV tonight and thought she looked so frail...

What a jerk.

[Democracyinkind]

37. I still maintain that the Supremce Court....

... is and has always been the most dysfunctional part of the US, ever since this country was founded. It has almost never lived up to what it should be - an impartial body of review, instead being just another stage for political kabuki.

This court was instrumental in the dismantling of America, yet it never really caught flak for it. It is mostly still treated with an amount of respect it simply never deserved.

[merrily]

38. Maybe, but I like the decisions of the Warren Court and

even the First Amendment decision of crazy Rehnquist's Court.

[Democracyinkind]

40. Yes, it has done much good too. No doubt about it.

But it never has been, and will never be, politically impartial. I like to think of it as an even smaller Senate, minus the election.

[merrily]

42. Both Warren and Rehnquist were Republicans.

Warren was the most liberal CJ I've ever heard of.

Rehnquist was not liberal, but, as I said, his court was very pro-first amendment.

Most scholars would say that the most liberal Justice ever, even more thank Ginsburg, was Stevens, also a Republican appointee.

I agree that the court splits 5-4 too often these days along political lines, but I don't know if that was always the case.

[lastlib]

44. "Most liberal Justice ever"--

Wm. O. Douglas (also the longest-serving in history), hands down.

[merrily]

45. You omitted the beginning of that sentence, namely "Most scholars say"

Douglas was liberal indeed, but he was New Deal era Democrat, while Stevens was a Republican and had to buck a conservative court in an increasingly rightward political atmosphere.

But, I would not take a thing away from Douglas, at least before he allegedly became senile.

[merrily]

39. Oaf.

ETA: And coward.

How much courage does it take to mock that tiny, frail woman?

[ReRe]

48. Just another sign of how low...

... this Court has gone. Alito nor Thomas should ever have been confirmed. Maybe had there been respectable judges in those spots, perhaps the rest of the repubs on the court might not have leaned so far to the right.

That is absolutely disgusting behavior, mocking Ginsburg. He could bring a crossword puzzle book or a newspaper to read when he gets bored. So childish. It's just disrespectful of not only Justice Ginsberg, but everyone in the room who seen him do it. I hope Republicans are proud of him.

[Octafish]

51. Alito is a fascist.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x266685

Thank you fot the heads-up on this boorish imbecile, n2doc. These are NAZI times.

[Enthusiast]

52. PLUS ONE! nt

[Baitball Blogger]

53. It seems like Alito has something against women.

Wonder if there's something in his past he's not proud of?

[Solly Mack]

54. Fucker

[66 dmhlt]

55. Could've just stopped with "Alito Is a DICK"

[DirtyDawg]

56. Same thing...

...the prick did at the State of the Union. Obviously he's in need of a good ass-kickin'...then we can really see his eyes roll around and his head bob back and forth.

[sulphurdunn]

57. He should be censored.

Apparently, what few shreds of dignity remain to that court are a few too many for Alito.

[caseymoz]

58. Ironically she's reading about harassment

. . . and Alito pulls that grade school league shit.

[truebluegreen]

59. "Alito is a dick."

Fixed it for ya.

[Dustlawyer]

60. The title could have been shorter, "Alito is a dick!" He is a juvenile emotionally who is a

know-it-all, condescending prick! The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been getting right wing Judges elected and grooming them to rise to the Courts of Appeals (mission accomplished on that score) and has made the Judiciary hyper partisan where they should not be partisan at all! Most Americans have no idea how much they have lost of their rights (come to Texas to find out what life under Republican rule is like)! It was not an accident that he reacted at the State of the Union address when President Obama criticized Citizens United! He is a petty piece of shit with power for life!

[MrMickeysMom]

61. "Dumbing down" knows no boundaries... the SCOTUS has been going this same track...

Samuel Alito has no honor, and so is incapable, it would appear to present himself as a supreme court justice.

The man is simply below specifications to represent this branch of the United States with honor.

Please ... someone create a GIF of this turkey on the supreme court and his blasted "eye rolling"

[hamsterjill]

62. Despicable.

It's obvious that he doesn't understand the profound privilege of being on the Supreme Court. He doesn't get it. He chooses to bring it down to playground antics.

Whether he agrees or disagrees with Justice Ginsburg, he should still show her the proper respect. It makes him look like an uneducated jackass when he acts like this. I wonder if his own mother would approve of his treatment of Justice Ginsburg today?

[Zoeisright]

63. Alito is a dick period.

That fucking piece of shit is a racist traitor.

[The Wizard]

70. Can you expect something different

from the ass clown who said Bush had divine powers like a king. Just another unqualified jerkoff on the highest court there to impose fascist rule by any means necessary. He should have gotten out of the house more often as a kid. Maybe he's have a better understanding of the human condition. Right wing hackery reigns on the Mediocre Court.

[appleannie1]

71. A dick is a dick is a dick. If it walks like a dick, talks like a dick it usually is a dick.

[trueblue2007]

72. I WISH.... Alito would get hit by a truck

ALITO & THOMAS are going to McDonalds for a burger and they both get hit.

that is my daytime dream.

am i being horrible? I don't think so.

[Agschmid]

89. Yes it's horrible... and classless.

You are now on the same level as them, congrats.

I'd suggest editing or deleting your post, considering you are advocating harm to 1/3 of our federal government.

[Agschmid]

91. Alerted but failed... suggest that edit.

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Thank you.

[Uncle Joe]

75. Alito has got to be the most immature person to ever sit on the high bench.

Thanks for the thread, n2doc.

[SummerSnow]

77. yeah ok , so this is how you think

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

Samuel Alito


Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/samuelalit404831.html#HjL9mA4eDReoeXAz.99





rofl they are both jokes

[limpyhobbler]

79. Justice Ginsburg is a national treasure.

Alito is probably a racist/sexist shit pig.

[Cha]

80. Yeah, Alito is a sick fuck who can't hold back his disdain for Voting Rights.. I don't

care if he does go the "Opera" with Ruth Ginsburg. Even worse.. he should be able to show a modicum of respect for her instead of acting like one of the bully-boys on the playground.

I hope Social Media Twitter Brigade called him out on this.. he needs to be held accountable.

thanks for the article, n2doc

[politicat]

81. I wonder if Justices Ginsberg, Kagan and Sotomayor can bring a hostile workplace suit?

Or possibly the female clerks? This being actual, classic gender harassment.

[aquart]

82. Alito has the manners of a dead pig.

[BillyRibs]

83. Alito is just,

Another Jersey Prick Judge! and I can spot them. Cause I have to deal with them daily.

[RVN VET]

84. Alito is a dick, period

Too many wedgies in school will do that to a wimp who gets power. I think the longer we see and hear of Alito, the worse -- and more embarrassingly so -- he's gonna prove to be.

[uponit7771]

85. Ghetto

[annabanana]

87. true sociopath ..n/t

[DainBramaged]

88. Alito at the conclusion of his confirmation hearings, walked directly away from his wife

and made sure she was one of the last to talk to him. He has no respect for women, probably thinks they are nothing but procreation machines, and lied his way onto the bench.

[Yavin4]

90. Remember this when you read on DU that there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats

Remember.

[jessie04]

92. Alito should rot in hell.

nt

[davidpdx]

93. I'd like to see someone smack him up side his smug face

If you think that is bad, imagine what I'd like to see done to Scalia.

[Berlum]

94. Republicans really do hate women

Their degenerate so-called "republican family values" come oozing out like pus.