R. Eric VanNewkirk: A depressing thing about our current predicament is that the Founders were perfectly familiar with grifters, partisans, self-dealers, and dishonorable men and loaded the Constitution with mechanisms to keep them away from public office, none of which work under our current political system.

So I don’t much think that details about the neighbor encounter are hugely relevant, but Alito appears to have lied about the timeline.

Gift link: "The Alitos, the Neighborhood Clash and the Upside-Down Flag: "Escalating conflict on a bucolic suburban street" Engrossing!

The Alitos, the Neighborhood Clash and the Upside-Down Flagwww.nytimes.com Inside the escalating conflict on a bucolic suburban street that Justice Alito said prompted a “Stop the Steal” symbol at his home.

Honestly I think a country with actual checks and balances would have gotten him out by now.

A depressing thing about our current predicament is that the Founders were perfectly familiar with grifters, partisans, self-dealers, and dishonorable men and loaded the Constitution with mechanisms to keep them away from public office, none of which work under our current political system.

They had the one about insurrection it’s being disqualified, but apparently it doesn’t apply.

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