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    Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

    Alito is delivering the keynote speech at this year’s Federalist Society convention. He’s using the occasion to defend the group, claiming its members face “harassment and retaliation for saying anything that departs from the law school orthodoxy.”https://youtu.be/tYLZL4GZVbA 

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      2. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Alito attacks the Judicial Conference for attempting to forbid federal judges from being members of the Federalist Society, and praises the conservative judges who successfully fought the ban.

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      3. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        UHHH, Alito seems to be criticizing governors for issuing “sweeping restrictions” in response to COVID-19. Also criticizes progressives and New Dealers for putting too much faith in scientists and experts.

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      4. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Alito says this rule by executive fiat is “where the law has been going for some time—in the direction of government by executive officials who are thought to implement policies by scientific expertise.” Suggests this is a dangerous trend.

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      5. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Whoa, Alito is VERY critical of COVID restrictions and “rule by experts.” Then he says: “in certain corners, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right.” He condemns “the protracted campaign against the Little Sisters of the Poor.” Calls it an “unrelenting attack.”

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      6. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Alito now condemns Washington State for requiring pharmacies to carry Plan B, “which destroys an embryo after fertilization.” He also criticizes the Colorado civil rights commissioner in Masterpiece Cakeshop who said “freedom of religion” can be used for discrimination.

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      7. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Alito criticizes Harvard Law Prof. Mark Tushnet for this notorious blog post, and quotes from it extensively. Says “it’s not dark yet but it’s getting there,” quoting Bob Dylan. https://balkin.blogspot.com/2016/05/abandoning-defensive-crouch-liberal.html?m=1 …

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      8. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Now Alito is criticizing the Nevada governor for giving casinos a higher COVID attendance cap than churches. He moves onto criticizing the federal judge who suspended the rule that required people to pick up abortion pills in person.

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      9. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Yikes. Alito condemns Obergefell, the same-sex marriage decision, and says it has led to censorship of people who believe marriage is “a union of one man and one woman.” Says freedom of speech is “falling out of favor in some circles.”

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      10. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Alito brings up a brief filed with the Supreme Court by five Democratic senators in a gun case warning that the court is becoming too political. He calls the brief “an affront to the Constitution and the rule of law.” https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/New%20York%20Rifle%20&%20Pistol%20Association%20v.%20New%20York%20(Whitehouse%20amicus%20FINAL).pdf …

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      11. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Without saying the words “court-packing,” Alito warns about Democratic efforts to “bully” the court with threats to “restructure” it. Tells a story about a foreign judge threatened with death if he didn’t rule for the government.

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      12. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Alito is done. That was easily the most political speech I’ve ever seen delivered by a Supreme Court justice. Wow. Same-sex marriage, guns, abortion, contraception, persecution of the Federalist Society ... he really squeezed it all in there. Yikes.

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      13. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Probably the strangest aspect of Alito’s speech, other than his attack on COVID restrictions, was his claim that people who oppose same-sex marriage get called “bigots” and this somehow threatens freedom of speech. But how?! Public criticism is not censorship! He knows this!

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      14. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Here is Justice Alito complaining that the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision has crushed the free speech of anti-LGBTQ advocates.pic.twitter.com/0eH9QsxMTU

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      15. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        Here’s Justice Alito complaining about this amicus brief filed by @SenWhitehouse, @SenBlumenthal, @maziehirono, @SenatorDurbin, and @SenGillibrand, and warning of Democrats’ threats to “restructure” the Supreme Court. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/New%20York%20Rifle%20&%20Pistol%20Association%20v.%20New%20York%20(Whitehouse%20amicus%20FINAL).pdf …pic.twitter.com/fCJJjc5HMV

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      16. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        And here is Justice Alito defending Masterpiece Cakeshop’s Jacks Phillips for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex couple. Alito notes that the couple was offered a free cake elsewhere, then supported by “celebrity chefs.”pic.twitter.com/hZxdFJHyEI

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      17. Mark Joseph Stern‏Verified account @mjs_DC 12 Nov 2020

        As @danepps pointed out, Alito inadvertently made a very strong argument for court reform this evening. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/11/alito-federalist-society-speech-insane.html … @Slate

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