Samuel Alito’s arrogance is of Biblical proportions

I was raised Catholic. Using the High Court to promote religion As a lapsed Catholic and long-in-the-tooth federal trial lawyer, I am more familiar with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s religious nuttery than I want to be. A couple weeks ago, at the annual dinner for the Supreme Court Historical Society, Windsor secretly taped Alito agreeing with a stated goal of fighting to return “our country to a place of godliness.” I’m not a fan of secret wiretaps, but every public figure with a lifetime federal appointment should assume that what they say to strangers in public places could become public. To circumvent the ACA, Alito focused on the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which allows religious objectors to be exempt from federal law unless compliance is “necessary to a compelling government interest.” In Alito’s final analysis, allowing women to avoid unwanted pregnancies so they can earn a living was less “compelling” than employers’ religious beliefs that God meant women as birthing vessels first, employees second. Alito’s hubris and refusal to recuse should lead to his impeachment During oral argument on former President Donald Trump’s election interference case, Alito offered a crazy argument that presidents need broad immunity from criminal consequences, because an incumbent president who “loses a very close, hotly contested election” would not “leave office peacefully” if they could be prosecuted by the incoming administration.