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LetMyPeopleVote

(182,048 posts)
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:04 PM 21 hrs ago

Sam Alito watched blue states outsmart him -- and he's 'big mad': legal analysts

Alito is a real asshole who thought that he had effectively banned abortion.

Legal experts are mocking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after his fiery dissent in Thursday's Mifepristone ruling revealed just how angry he is that blue states have found a way around his decision overturning Roe v. Wade.

Raw Story (@rawstory.com) 2026-05-16T06:00:10Z

https://www.rawstory.com/samuel-alito-2676903224

Legal experts are mocking Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito after his fiery dissent in Thursday's Mifepristone ruling revealed just how angry he is that blue states have found a way around his decision overturning Roe v. Wade.....

Stern said Alito's dissent revealed his selective view of state sovereignty.

"In Alito’s view, red states have absolute freedom to persecute abortion providers and patients, while blue states have no authority to protect them," Stern said.

Dennie went further, drawing a historical parallel to pre-Civil War personal liberty laws, when free states refused to return enslaved people to slave states.

"Here, again, we have judges like Alito suggesting that unfree states should be able to reach into free states and impose their laws on everyone else—to impose their unfreedom across the whole country," she said.




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Sam Alito watched blue states outsmart him -- and he's 'big mad': legal analysts (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote 21 hrs ago OP
All you need to know about Alito Henry203 21 hrs ago #1
Guy Lombardo was a beast! BaronChocula 19 hrs ago #10
Oh no! Not Lombardo! SergeStorms 18 hrs ago #15
Aw MustLoveBeagles 21 hrs ago #2
... eppur_se_muova 21 hrs ago #3
Asshole has been foisting his bitter right wing bullshit Klarkashton 20 hrs ago #4
Fuck that guy orangecrush 20 hrs ago #5
Why does he live ? dave99 19 hrs ago #7
Windowless basement full of WonderBread wrappers and cups with Ovaltine stained bottoms Attilatheblond 18 hrs ago #14
That was my first thought. Thank you. nt Ilsa 19 hrs ago #8
What you said MustLoveBeagles 19 hrs ago #13
Link to the Amicus podcast on Slate ihaveaquestion 20 hrs ago #6
Many thanks for that link! Attilatheblond 18 hrs ago #16
Hardly surprising as he is ok with States going after owners of legal porn websites in other States. cstanleytech 19 hrs ago #9
Alito can't even pronounce Mifepristone correctly BaronChocula 19 hrs ago #11
Alito said it's OK for the police to shoot unarmed children ... Kid Berwyn 19 hrs ago #12
If we had laws that really were against perversity, Alito would have been the first to go. Instead I can only offer this DFW 18 hrs ago #17
My Dream modrepub 16 hrs ago #18
The fact that Alito is unhappy makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote 24 min ago #19

Henry203

(964 posts)
1. All you need to know about Alito
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:09 PM
21 hrs ago

is that while in college he stayed home on New Year's eve and watched Guy Lombardo. He is a creep.

Klarkashton

(5,421 posts)
4. Asshole has been foisting his bitter right wing bullshit
Tue May 19, 2026, 01:37 PM
20 hrs ago

On the public for what seems like forever now.

Attilatheblond

(9,236 posts)
14. Windowless basement full of WonderBread wrappers and cups with Ovaltine stained bottoms
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:41 PM
18 hrs ago

Seems less that sociable.

ihaveaquestion

(4,790 posts)
6. Link to the Amicus podcast on Slate
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:21 PM
20 hrs ago
https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus/2026/05/mifepristone-ruling-what-thomas-and-alitos-abortion-pill-case-dissents-reveal

Episode Notes
This week on Amicus, hosts Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern break down a whirlwind stretch of reproductive rights legal battles, from the Fifth Circuit’s sweeping nationwide ban on telehealth medication abortion, to the Supreme Court’s emergency order blocking it. Madiba Dennie (Deputy Editor, Balls and Strikes; and author of The Originalism Trap) joins to explain what the furious dissents from Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito reveal about where this is all headed.

Then, Dahlia sits down with writer, activist, and former NARAL president Ilyse Hogue for a wide-ranging conversation about why the assault on medication abortion and the assault on voting rights are the same fight — and why progressives keep losing the narrative battle even when public opinion and shared values are on their side. They also discuss an overlooked but hugely significant win for free speech in the Media Matters v. FTC case, and why fighting back against government bullying matters more than ever.

Attilatheblond

(9,236 posts)
16. Many thanks for that link!
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:46 PM
18 hrs ago

Lithwick is wonderful to listen to. Gentleness wrapping over a razor shape mind and steel spine.

cstanleytech

(28,595 posts)
9. Hardly surprising as he is ok with States going after owners of legal porn websites in other States.
Tue May 19, 2026, 02:51 PM
19 hrs ago

BaronChocula

(4,747 posts)
11. Alito can't even pronounce Mifepristone correctly
Tue May 19, 2026, 03:04 PM
19 hrs ago

Last edited Tue May 19, 2026, 07:21 PM - Edit history (1)

He calls it MITHepristone, perhaps among other things. There should be a law. You can't ban it if you can't say it.

Reminds me of a story my dad told years ago. Reagan's CIA head William Casey lobbied Congress for more money to fight Sandinistas in Nicaragua. But he couldn't properly pronounce Nicaragua and his foes joked that he shouldn't get money for what can't say properly.

DFW

(60,436 posts)
17. If we had laws that really were against perversity, Alito would have been the first to go. Instead I can only offer this
Tue May 19, 2026, 04:20 PM
18 hrs ago


Rumor has it that he saw it and hated it.

Would you consider me a bad person if I smiled a little?

modrepub

(4,192 posts)
18. My Dream
Tue May 19, 2026, 05:57 PM
16 hrs ago

would be to buy up the properties surrounding Alito's vacation home(s) and dump pig manure every third day while he's staying there.

Anyone want to start a go fund me to make this happen?

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