We don't need more evidence of Alito's bias, but we got it

Jackie Calmes

Let me stipulate: I disapprove of pseudo-journalistic stings that surreptitiously record people, often public figures, in a gotcha moment. It’s unethical whether the trapper is the far-right Project Veritas or the left-leaning “advocacy journalist” who ensnared Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. and his wife, Martha-Ann, just last week.

And yet…. The court’s farthest-right justice didn’t have to answer in the unguarded, utterly inappropriate way that he did when Lauren Windsor, masquerading as a fellow Catholic conservative, approached him at the annual black-tie gala for the Supreme Court Historical Society.

No one made him agree, emphatically, that the nation must return “to a place of godliness,” or that there’s really no compromising with the left, as if he were a minister or a politician, not an impartial jurist.

Embarrassing as Windsor's recordings are for Alito, the audio made public Monday doesn't tell us anything we didn’t already know: The justice shows bad judgment and has a right-wing, theocratic bias that should be disqualifying but for the fact that he enjoys lifetime tenure.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/calmes-dont-more-evidence-alitos-100302716.html