"Justice Alito, this is an Arby's." nbcnews.com/think/opinion/…
Really, just awesome that someone who uses "scientific expertise" as a pejorative and very erroneously thinks that Plan B "destroy[s] an embryo after fertilization" is about to vote to eliminate the reproductive rights of American women. What a country.
And what we REALLY need now is for lawyers who think "expertise" is a punchline to kneecap our already inadequate COVID response. Just great.
And as Alito prepares to make it harder for governors to deal with a very real public safety crisis,.remember that he also thinks Daddy Trump was owed essentially unlimited deference to do racisms in response to a completely imaginary security threat lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2020/11/sir-th…
It's times like this that I remember that I owe my very tiny corner of internets renown to @sam_rosenfeld seeing my blogs pushing back at the ridiculous media narrative that liberals had gotten lucky that Bush nominated a reasonable moderate like Alito rather than another Scalia
But that's also what makes this so bad: Alito fooled gullible reporters because his extremely partisan votes were concealed by a commitment to dry, technical language as opposed to Scalia's op-ed flourishes. That he doesn't feel the need to pretend anymore is pretty terrifying.

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12 Nov
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It's really far from self-evident that Trump refuse to concede is a NET mobilization benefit, and the longer he carries on with it the less obvious it becomes. Nobody knows, especially given the uncertainty of how it will play out.
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