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Senior Writer @NRO. Reaganite, Catholic, Mets fan, ex-lawyer. Opinions 100% my own, but you can share them. Not the Cardinals broadcaster.

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    1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      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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    2. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      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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    3. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      Alito: religious liberty "fast becoming a disfavored right." Notes broad bipartisan support for RFRA in 1990s, legal assault on Little Sisters of the Poor.

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    4. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      Alito giving a long disquisition on the many religious minorities who have come before SCOTUS.

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    5. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      Hoo boy, now Alito quoting the now-infamous Mark Tushnet blog post on treating the (expected, Republican) losers of the 2016 election like the conquered in Germany & Japan in 1945.

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    6. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      Humorous barbs aside - Alito is a low-key fantastic speechmaker - this is a thoughtful speech on the importance & endangered nature of free speech & free exercise, & the danger of pandemic-era habits of restriction.

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    7. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      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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    8. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      Alito now moves on to the Second Amendment as the ultimate disfavored Constitutional right. #FedSoc2020

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    9. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      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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    10. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      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. #FedSoc2020

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      Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

      Now, Alito paying tribute to the vast influence of Justice Scalia on today's judiciary & how it reads the Constitution & statutes. #FedSoc2020

      5:33 PM - 12 Nov 2020
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        1. Dan McLaughlin‏Verified account @baseballcrank 12 Nov 2020

          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. #FedSoc2020

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        1. Billy Finn  ⚔️ 🇺🇸‏ @BillyFinn18 12 Nov 2020
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          He's gotta talk about court packing

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        1. Dave C‏ @davecdnb 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @FedSoc

          God you ppl never stifle it with your Scalia this and originalist that. It’s nonsense. You’ve stolen a seat. Packed the court. Things won’t be right until this is made right.

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        1. SPR‏ @Intrpdtravlr 12 Nov 2020
          Replying to @baseballcrank @FedSoc

          Seems like an overly political speech. Plan B; gay marriage; COVID restrictions - is he SCOTUS or running for a senate seat in AL?

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