Disturbing New Revelations About The Corrupt Conservative Supreme Court

By Michael Waldman\Brennan Center for Justice Photos: YouTube Screenshots Last spring, Justice Samuel Alito had drafted an opinion dropping federal charges against many of the January 6 insurrectionists who violently stormed the Capitol. The ruling in Fischer v. United States had not yet been released. Then the New York Times published a startling story: Alito himself had flown the flag of insurrection at his home. (He briefly blamed it on his wife: “She is fond of flying flags.”) Days later, it was reported that he had flown such flags at his vacation home as well. Awkward! Grounds for recusal? Time to rethink the ruling? Nah. Instead, Chief Justice John Roberts quietly took Alito’s embarrassing name off the opinion and slipped his own name onto it instead. That is just one of the gobsmacking revelations from a story by Jodi Kantor and Adam Liptak that appeared in the New York Times this weekend. The lurid news of the day quickly overwhelmed it — the gunman arrested outside Donald Trump’s golf course, the continued smear campaign by former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance against the Haitian immigrant community in a small city in Ohio, and more. But we must not let...