National Security Counselors 🕵: It's nice to think things

mamma mia! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

More. New tonight: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Martha-Ann Alito Condemns Pride Flags, the Left, and the Mediawww.rollingstone.com Martha-Ann Alito, wife of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in a new recording bemoans having to “look across the lagoon at the Pride flag.”

New Audio: Alito Bashes ProPublica for Reporting on Supreme Court Ethicswww.rollingstone.com Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in a new recording suggests partisan funding is to blame for coverage of justices’ undisclosed luxury gifts.

It's getting so Republican Justices will be afraid to be honest with anyone coming up to talk to them and will treat even their most ardent supporters with deep suspicion.

A law prof from UC Hastings very vociferously argued that very point on local radio yesterday... Actually, it was this guy, and it was a pretty pathetic complaint: www.uclawsf.edu/people/rory-...

Rory Little, Professor of Law - UC Law SF College of the Lawwww.uclawsf.edu Professor Little came to UC Law SF in 1994 after a distinguished 12-year career as a practicing litigator, criminal defense and prosecution lawyer, and appellate lawyer. He is today a nationally recog...

Hey I didn't say it was a BAD thing.

He seemed to think it was.

It's nice to think things

So this professor doesn't seem to be MAGA-curious or even traditionally conservative, so I'm going to have to assume that he's coming at this from the position of "don't bother Justices because they're too busy doing important law stuff and don't want to be famous" institutionalism.

Which I agree with in theory but definitely disagree violently with in practice because it requires you to accept the fiction that all the Justices are just out there doing important law stuff and not actively pursuing ideological agendas. Which I cannot accept at this time.

I got the distinct sense he was on the left, but very afraid that fighting back might jeopardize... something. To a point I'd agree: I don't want to get in the mud, or break laws to fight back (he was very worried about wiretap liability for the recording), but the concerns seemed overwrought here.

Even just the wiretap concern seemed misplaced. It was not a private environment! But he seems to think the reporter somehow defrauded Alito into his candor...

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