Alito #FedSoc2020 speech leads off talking about needing a cardboard cutout audience like this year's MLB.
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Alito defending the nonpartisan, non-advocacy nature of
@FedSoc, which of course is an implicit defense of judges belonging to the organization. Notes the decline of tolerance for debate.6 replies 2 retweets 47 likesShow this thread -
Now, he moves on to a direct response to the effort to ban judges from belonging to
@FedSoc. Thanks everyone who stood up to that effort.#FedSoc20201 reply 2 retweets 43 likesShow this thread -
Now, Alito warning against theories of executive lawmaking via "policy based on expertise," tracing it to the progressive era but without mentioning Woodrow Wilson by name.
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Alito discusses Jacobson v. Massachusetts, notes that he's in favor of keeping bad things from spreading out of Cambridge, Mass & spreading across the country. Would have been a great laugh line before a live audience.
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He's such an understatedly great speaker.
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