No Standing on Social Media Censorship, Alito Dissents
WASHINGTON, DC – Despite fierce opposition from conservatives, a divided Supreme Court has ruled that social media companies like Facebook are free to continue censoring conservatives. “During the 2020 election season and the COVID-19 pandemic, social media platforms frequently removed, demoted, or fact-checked posts containing allegedly false or misleading information,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett said. […]
Alito defends free speech as Supreme Court majority punts on Biden censorship case
Justice Samuel Alito on Wednesday wrote a dissent that stood up for defenders of free speech after the majority on the Supreme Court declined to weigh the merits of a major case accusing the Biden administration of attempting to censor users on social media. The lawsuit known as Murthy v. Missouri alleged the Biden administration violated the […]
House Democratic leader declares Justice Alito ‘a right-wing insurrectionist’ amid flag fracas
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) on Fox News on Friday described Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, a Bush appointee, as a “sympathizer of the insurrectionists” and also praised Justice Clarence Thomas. Jeffries’s harsh remarks came as Alito and his wife, Martha Ann, continue to face criticism for previously flying an “Appeal to Heaven” […]
Supreme Court strikes down bump stock ban — then Justice Alito delivers the crucial detail: ‘There is a simple remedy’
The Supreme Court on Friday struck down the federal ban on bump stocks. In December 2018, the Trump administration banned bump stocks. According to ATF regulations The device was declared a “machine gun” and Bump stocks are illegal under federal law. Case, Garland v. CargillThe case initially came to the Supreme Court after a U.S. […]
Secret recording tries to trap Alito, but he seizes the moment to get honest about the media: ‘It’s a dangerous time’
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito understands the ways of traditional media. For over a year, media outlets, particularly ProPublica, have been trying to delegitimize the Supreme Court by implying that Justices Alito and Clarence Thomas committed unethical acts, without ever finding any actual evidence to support their all-out assault. “They look for every little thing […]
Durbin looks to force Supreme Court ethics bill vote amid Alito controversy
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) plans to try to force a vote Wednesday night on a Democratic-backed Supreme Court ethics bill amid the recent grilling of Justice Samuel Alito and renewed calls for conservative judges to recuse themselves from former President Trump’s immunity lawsuit. Durbin will lead the Judiciary Committee’s Democratic Senators Sheldon […]
Liberal filmmaker defends secretly recording Alito, Roberts, says her ‘lies’ elicited ‘truths’ from justices
Lauren Windsor, a liberal filmmaker who secretly recorded Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and John Roberts, said Wednesday that the “lies” they told the justices elicited “truths” of value to the public. “I hope people are more shocked by the ethical violations of the Supreme Court than by the lies I told in an effort […]
Experts dismiss undercover Alito, Roberts recordings as ‘pretty unexceptional’
Legal experts have said recently released secretly recorded audio of two Supreme Court justices is “not very revealing.” Liberal filmmaker Lauren Windsor recorded Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito and his wife, Martha Ann Alito, without their permission, at a dinner on June 3. The audio was later published by Rolling Stone magazine. […]
Alito is a partisan, radical conservative
President George W. Bush did not name Justice Samuel Alito as his first choice for the Supreme Court seat vacated by the retirement of pro-abortion Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. White House Counsel Harriet Myers was his first choice. Mears had a weak record as a Supreme Court justice: she had not written much, she had […]
The endgame is nigh for the Democratic public-private campaign against Justice Alito
Establishment Democrats have waged a joint public-private campaign in recent months to neutralize the conservative justices on the U.S. Supreme Court. Democrats and their media allies acknowledge that the campaign is driven in part by a need to tilt future cases in their favor. After all, the cases under consideration concern the 2020 election, the […]