Alito #FedSoc2020 speech leads off talking about needing a cardboard cutout audience like this year's MLB.
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Alito comparing "marriage is a union between one man and one woman" to the seven dirty words in George Carlin's famous 1970s comedy routine. Warns against speech becoming a "second tier Constitutional right."
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Alito now moves on to the Second Amendment as the ultimate disfavored Constitutional right.
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Now, Alito moves on to the open threat to judicial independence in Sheldon Whitehouse's amicus brief threatening the Court "the Senators' brief was extraordinary...it was an affront to the Constitution and the rule of law."
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Alito predicts more efforts like Whitehouse's to threaten the Court, notes that this sort of thing is more common in other countries. Talks about a judge from another country facing a tank rolling up to the courthouse.
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Now, Alito paying tribute to the vast influence of Justice Scalia on today's judiciary & how it reads the Constitution & statutes.
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Justice Alito sums up with an ode to the importance of the idea of liberty in our hearts, as the ultimate safeguard of our constitutional system.
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