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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSam Alito watched blue states outsmart him -- and he's 'big mad': legal analysts
Alito is a real asshole who thought that he had effectively banned abortion.
Legal experts are mocking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after his fiery dissent in Thursday's Mifepristone ruling revealed just how angry he is that blue states have found a way around his decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
— Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-05-16T06:00:10Z
https://www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito-2676903224
Stern said Alito's dissent revealed his selective view of state sovereignty.
"In Alitos view, red states have absolute freedom to persecute abortion providers and patients, while blue states have no authority to protect them," Stern said.
Dennie went further, drawing a historical parallel to pre-Civil War personal liberty laws, when free states refused to return enslaved people to slave states.
"Here, again, we have judges like Alito suggesting that unfree states should be able to reach into free states and impose their laws on everyone elseto impose their unfreedom across the whole country," she said.
Henry203
(965 posts)is that while in college he stayed home on New Year's eve and watched Guy Lombardo. He is a creep.
BaronChocula
(4,806 posts)SergeStorms
(20,868 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(17,434 posts)Does the poor widdile baby have diaper rash?
eppur_se_muova
(42,595 posts)
Add 'Roe vs Wade' to "Voting Rights Act' on the parchement
Klarkashton
(5,440 posts)On the public for what seems like forever now.
orangecrush
(31,227 posts)dave99
(285 posts)Attilatheblond
(9,305 posts)Seems less that sociable.
Ilsa
(64,606 posts)MustLoveBeagles
(17,434 posts)ihaveaquestion
(4,826 posts)Episode Notes
This week on Amicus, hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern break down a whirlwind stretch of reproductive rights legal battles, from the Fifth Circuits sweeping nationwide ban on telehealth medication abortion, to the Supreme Courts emergency order blocking it. Madiba Dennie (Deputy Editor, Balls and Strikes; and author of The Originalism Trap) joins to explain what the furious dissents from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito reveal about where this is all headed.
Then, Dahlia sits down with writer, activist, and former NARAL president Ilyse Hogue for a wide-ranging conversation about why the assault on medication abortion and the assault on voting rights are the same fight and why progressives keep losing the narrative battle even when public opinion and shared values are on their side. They also discuss an overlooked but hugely significant win for free speech in the Media Matters v. FTC case, and why fighting back against government bullying matters more than ever.
Attilatheblond
(9,305 posts)Lithwick is wonderful to listen to. Gentleness wrapping over a razor shape mind and steel spine.
cstanleytech
(28,617 posts)BaronChocula
(4,806 posts)Last edited Tue May 19, 2026, 07:21 PM - Edit history (1)
He calls it MITHepristone, perhaps among other things. There should be a law. You can't ban it if you can't say it.
Reminds me of a story my dad told years ago. Reagan's CIA head William Casey lobbied Congress for more money to fight Sandinistas in Nicaragua. But he couldn't properly pronounce Nicaragua and his foes joked that he shouldn't get money for what can't say properly.
Kid Berwyn
(25,153 posts)...in the back of the head.
Know your BFEE: Alito is just another word for Mussolini
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=266685
DFW
(60,493 posts)Rumor has it that he saw it and hated it.
Would you consider me a bad person if I smiled a little?
modrepub
(4,203 posts)would be to buy up the properties surrounding Alito's vacation home(s) and dump pig manure every third day while he's staying there.
Anyone want to start a go fund me to make this happen?