Now we find out. Breaking news, via the WSJ: (gift link)
Supreme Court Lifts Pause on Foreign-Aid Payouts
A 5-4 court rejected the Trump administration’s bid to suspend a lower-court directive to resume nearly $2 billion in fundingWASHINGTON—A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to suspend a lower court’s order that directed the Trump administration to resume nearly $2 billion in foreign-aid funding.
Last week, Chief Justice John Roberts briefly paused a deadline for the government to make the payments. The order Wednesday, which came on a 5-4 vote, removed that hold. The court’s majority, however, instructed a federal trial judge to give “due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines.”
Four dissenters, led by Justice Samuel Alito, said recipients of foreign-aid funding had raised serious concerns about the government not paying them for work they had completed. But the trial judge, they said, was “too extreme” in ordering the payments to be made within 36 hours.
Remember, children are literally starving to death and acquiring HIV thanks to the “pause.” That’s what’s “too extreme” here.
Alito is hopping mad, a reliable indicator that actual justice occurred:
Alito dissents, joined by Thomas, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh. He says he is “stunned” by the court’s order, decrying it as “a most unfortunate misstep that rewards an act of judicial hubris and imposed a $2 billion penalty to b American taxpayers.” They are furious. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p…
— Mark Joseph Stern (@mjsdc.bsky.social) March 5, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Lawyers (and non-lawyer opinion havers), what do you think?
Open thread.
TBone
Reposting a comment I made last night.
And furthermore
They are running interference for Elno. Dotard shook hands and thanked them last night!
Omnes Omnibus
Alito is fine with some district court judge in TX calling a halt to federal programs. Sauce, goose, gander. Also, fuck Alito.
Steve Holmes
Seems like they are one vote away from breaking the Constitution permanently.
oldgold
I will take the win. But for 4 Justices to dissent on what should have been a slam dunk win (in essence this is about honoinrg USAID contracts that had already been performed) does not fill me with confidence going forward.
One of the most outrageous things Trump said last night came immediately after the speech.
Trump walked over to Chief Justice Roberts and said: “Thank you again. Thank you again. I won’t forget.”
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
I keep wondering what Super Catholic Alito says during confession. Is it all “I jerk it to vanilla porn”, or does it come down to his power mongering and desires to harm people?
Its a puzzlement, I wear.
Steve LaBonne
The pattern has been finding workarounds to “comply” with court rulings without really complying. I expect Trusk will try something like that before making an open break. Stay tuned.
Melancholy Jaques
@Omnes Omnibus:
I was going to say the same thing. There is no point in doing legal analysis of Alito because his decisions are not based on law.
WTFGhost
I think we found out that there’s a bare 5 vote minimum for the *LITERAL* rule of law, and the big, big, big question that was raised was whether demanding payout in 36 hours was too quick, putting a huge burden on taxpayers FLIP THE AMERICAN FLAG EXTREME DANGER OF LOSS OF LIFE OR SHIP/PROPERTY!
Ahem.
I’m sure there’s lawyerspeak that says X doctrine and Y doctrine, along with “do it or we’ll shove it down your throat” doctrine leads to Z conclusion, but I think I have it right, from the summary posted.
Van Buren
I’m going in for minor surgery in a few minutes. If I’m lucky they’ll put me in a coma for 4 years.
No One of Consequence
Simply cannot shake the image, burned into my mental retinas of a political cartoon not yet created, that has Drumpf a la Slim Pickens, riding the nuclear bomb out of the bay, in his maga cap and ridiculous-length necktie, onto a region of a map entitled ‘Free World’, where the clever political cartoonist reveals that the underside of the vaunted red cap spots a crossed, yellow hammer and sickle…
-NOoC
KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))
WHAT!!! A single District Court Judge has the power to compel the whole government to do their will?!? Say it ain’t so! /s
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@WTFGhost: There are inevitably legal commentators on TV and online who are still trying to pretend that there are applicable doctrines and penumbrae of law that show blah-de-blah-blah “the rule of law still holds” or some ridiculous bullshit like that.
kindness
A 13 or 15 member Supreme Court and term limits for supreme court justices when Democrats next hold the presidency and Senate.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager)):
Its gonna be fun to serve that dissent up to that set of thin-skinned fascists in Norther TX and the Fifth Circuit during the D admin to come.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@kindness:
I like 25.
frosty
BC: Your post title is something I’ve been quoting to friends since January 20. Now, like you said, we’ll find out.
WTFGhost
@Steve Holmes: Oh – don’t think they’re worried about *that*. This should have been a 9-0 slam dunk, but we had four Republican judges serving on the SCOTUS voting along with their caucus, while two others were permitted to perform acts to make themselves, or “the court,” look better.
This just was too early, or too easy, for them to break the Constitution over. They were not one vote away – they were one correct *case* away.
I’m sorry – every Republican I know of currently is useless as tits on a boar – don’t tell me about the ones who accomplished nothing, the way tits on a boar would accomplish nothing, but did so *honorably* like tits on an *honorable* boar. The tits were, nevertheless, useless. (Also, “teat” and “tit” are pronounced the same in some dialects. Fascinating… but not on boars. Nor bores, for that matter. I mean, I don’t find the tits on bores to be fascinating, unless it’s in the Spock sense.)
Ahem. Where was I?
But my contempt is held for the Republican attorneys in the federal court system.
Matt McIrvin
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: “Father, yesterday I had an atom of compassion for another person, forgive me”
WereBear
White people are just now becoming aware of class struggle. They are decades behind in understanding.
The death grip on privilege, solely dependent on pushing others down as they sink, makes them want cruel things to soothe their fears.
I’ve had success countering their One Weird Non-Fact with a simple, “You’ve been lied to.”
They seem to be helpless before it! Deep down it explains EVERYTHING quickly.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Matt McIrvin:
brandanrobertson.substack.com/p/the-sin-of-empathy
Steve LaBonne
By the way, for fellow public sector retirees who also worked in the private sector, my wife and I got our retroactive Social Security payments today. They were more than I expected, which also means the new monthly benefits will be more than I expected. While they still get paid at all, of course. Thank you, Democrats! Especially Sherrod Brown who fought for this for years.
Captain C
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
Scam: “I have nothing to confess, I’m perfect.”
Priest: “You sure? Not even pride? Hubris?”
Scam: “No, and I demand to talk to your bishop immediately!”
TBone
@No One of Consequence: When I lived in Galveston, I sent Christmas cards back East with that image in a Santa hat. For Dubya.
Torrey
@TBone:
Ahem! ahem! is this thing on? [taps the microphone]. Tbone, my good fellow commenter and Piet Hein afficianada/o, I congratulate you on your verbal combinatory skills. Indeed, I was on the point of copying that fine piece of dang-near-Shakespearean-quality invective to steal it. However, on second thought, I must take exception. First, WRT “bulging-eyed,” you have dissed Marty Feldman, one of the finest Igors who have ever Igored, also a man of Ukrainian descent. So no. Also, “dickless.” Really? The problem is people without dicks? Looking at the court count in this case, the problem seems to have been entirely the dicked.
With those exceptions, I salute your vituperative skills and wish to see more of same.
New Deal democrat
@oldgold:
Agree 100%. During the week it took the Court to decide this slam dunk, people died.
And by the way, if the problem the 4 dissenters had was with the deadlilne – which, again, was ONE WEEK AGO – why couldn’t they have gone along with the majority, say, last Friday, and given the T—-p Administration five days to comply? Which makes me think Alito et al would have been fine with overturning the trial judge’s order completely.
As you said, this does not bode well.
TBone
@Torrey: yours in service and I will take your constructive criticism to heart next time, maybe! You also have a way with the words! Smoooooth
ETA B.C. executive level word wrangling is how I knew I might find community here!
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Captain C:
Scam: “Its not sinful to wish for the death of Pope Francis, is it? We might get a proper whore-killing pope with a new election.”
Lynn Dee
The decision is a little surprising — this decision is in the context of preliminary relief (a temporary restraining order (TRO) in place, an application for a preliminary injunction pending) — and in such cases courts usually try to preserve the status quo rather than order the lower court to proceed with what might be considered “ultimate relief” (the relief sought in the underlying lawsuit, which they haven’t even gotten to yet). So that’s why Alito apparently complains in his dissent about taxpayer funds going out the door that might not be retrievable if the administration eventually prevails in the case.
One wants to think this might signal a finding that the challengers are likely to prevail on the merits (I haven’t read the decision so I don’t know what the court says on this point if they addressed it at all), but it might just be a procedural thing. TRO’s aren’t usually appealable, and the government apparently didn’t actually challenge the issuance of the TRO, they just requested an immediate stay.
I assume the government will drag its feet and hope the preliminary injunction proceedings end in their favor, or that, even if they don’t, at least that decision will be appealable.
Ohio Mom
@Van Buren: Wishing you a swift and complete recovery. I think the doctors with do everything to ensure you wake up, unfortunately.
WTFGhost
@TBone: They don’t manufacture Quaaludes any more. I was shocked and sad – one of the famous drugs of abuse, gone forever! I hope some chem freaks are still cooking up acid.
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: “I saw those who hungered and thirsted; I yelled ‘get a job’! I visited the sick and imprisoned to point and laugh; I lent a friend a coat, he thanked me, saying he had no coat of his own, so I took it back. Um. Do I have to go through the beatitudes too?”
Josie
@Steve LaBonne:
Congratulations! We can celebrate together.
Baud
@Steve LaBonne:
FRAUD!!! /DOGE
TBone
@Van Buren: may the force be with you (a day late but no dollars short).
TBone
Am finally going back to new church today. Hubby says my mouth needs a lot of Communion.
TBone
@WTFGhost: am fully aware of that astute information and have made plans for appropriate substitutions. Well, as appropriate as I ever get, anyhow.
cw moss
Betty asks lawyer-jackals what they think. I’m a lawyer and occasional commenter. Writing what I truly think should be done with Alito etc would get me banned from this site. I think the immunity decision last summer — written not by one of the crazies, but by the supposedly sane John Roberts — is America’s enabling act. Citizens United all but guaranteed the emergence of the plutocracy we will have the misfortune to live under for who knows how long. Alito being spitting mad about the govt being ordered to pay for work already performed leaves no doubt that the old USA no longer exists. It’s up to all of us to decide what comes next and to fight for it.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@WTFGhost:
bbc.com/news/magazine-33428487
It was a *great* drug and I remember clearly when it was classified as Schedule 1 and suddenly, they were no more.
I had a real sad at the time although long term, no longer being able to get them was probably a good thing for me. ;)
TBone
@oldgold: AND shook hands in his “dominant” fashy fashion.
WHADDA DEAL they came so cheap!
cw moss
@Steve Holmes: bro that happened in 2010 with Citizens United and especially with the immunity decision last summer!
Soprano2
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, isn’t it funny how when it’s something they don’t want to uphold suddenly one judge is a “rogue” actor. They didn’t think that one judge in TX was a “rogue” actor.
Soprano2
It’s typical for FFOTUS to stiff people who have performed work, so trying to do this is par for the course for him.
Melancholy Jaques
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
It won’t matter. They will ignore it, pretend it doesn’t exist. They are lawless.
Steve LaBonne
@Baud: Did I mention that I’m 150 years old?
CaseyL
Open thread: Some people here know of my elderly cat Oscar, who I talk about quite a bit. He had, and recovered, from a minor stroke a couple of months ago. He had another stroke Monday evening, a big one, and died that night in the hospital.
I consider the time since the first stroke a gift, but that doesn’t make losing him any easier.
cain
Cool to see pics of Al Green with his gold mounted walking stick.
I couldn’t help but feel triggered as a child of 80s cartoon. I really wanted him to smash his walking stick to the floor and turn into Thor and start wielding Mjolnir.
For those who don’t recognize the reference – peerlesspower.blogspot.com/2013/08/its-not-easy-being-donald-blake.html
That’s right, bitches – we need to give Al Green an enchanted walking stick!
Baud
@Steve LaBonne:
Average age for this blog.
Bill Arnold
Been wondering about a politically effective description of anti-DEI efforts. Thoughts?
DEI:
Diverity
Equity
Inclusion
anti-DEI:
Homogeneity, racism
Inequity, prejudice
Exclusion (?), segregation
Any others?
JaySinWA
@TBone:
You French kiss in church? /s
Dorothy A. Winsor
@CaseyL: I’m sorry.
hells littlest angel
Remember what it says in the constitution: “The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned, unless the President shall invoke the ‘fuck you you did a lousy job and if you don’t like it sue me’ exception.”
Grover Gardner
@Lynn Dee
Thank you, actually, for that explanation.
Kelly
So the local farm store can’t keep chicks in stock. Everytime they get some in they sell out before end of day. This is a rural area where backyard flocks raised for eggs or meat are commonplace. I haven’t heard if the store is having trouble sourcing chicks.
cain
@CaseyL: Sorry to hear about Oscar. :(
cain
@JaySinWA: look whatever, ok? whatever. As long as it is not cheeto flavored, it’s all good.
hells littlest angel
@Kelly: I wonder why eggs are through the roof but chicken prices haven’t changed.
Captain C
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
Priest: “Wait here a minute. I have some friends from the Holy Office whom I’m sure would love to meet you, and perhaps show you their instruments.”
Professor Bigfoot
@CaseyL: Condolences; it always hurts to lose one of our “people.”
Sure Lurkalot
@cw moss:
Seems to set the stage to stop disbursement of SS and Medicare funds that millions paid into.
Trollhattan
Overseas overnight news was nearly all consumed by Hair Fuhrer’s (was it really two hours? that’s Fidel Castro territory) brayfest and evaluation thereof. One analyst singled out the impacts on “Five Eyes” and how the other four and especially Canada, our partner in NORAD, must already be withholding intelligence from us because Kash Patel and Tulsi Gabbard “are Russian assets who are surely feeding intel to them.”
We joke in that whistling past the graveyard sense about this, but it’s being taken as a matter of fact not subject to further discussion.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@CaseyL:
So sorry to hear this. A poem from Constance Jenkins in 1992:
Sure Lurkalot
@CaseyL: I’m sorry to hear that you lost your buddy Oscar.
Betty Cracker
@CaseyL: Sorry about Oscar. :(
Captain C
@Sure Lurkalot: When Baud is President I am going to request that he stop the salaries of all Republican elected and appointed officials, as well as their pensions. According to Scam Alito, this is probably fine.
Steve LaBonne
@Captain C: Also confiscate their pants.
Kelly
@hells littlest angel: Interesting point. Meat chickens are killed younger than layers is the only difference I know of.
WTFGhost
@TBone: Well, may it be a healing blessing. (Or, “shame on you, you foul mouthed (something outrageous that makes you laugh)!!!”)
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Suzie Furrowbrows on the tariffs:
Some things never change.
WTFGhost
@CaseyL: No, it’s never easy… I’m so sorry for your loss.
satby
@CaseyL: I’m so sorry Casey! The extra time is a gift, but the loss is just as sharp when it comes. You gave him the heaven on earth of a safe home full of love.
Gretchen
@Kelly: I think that’s the reason. Meat chickens are killed within a few weeks, while egg chickens don’t even start laying for 16-20 weeks. If they have to kill the flock, it takes 3 months to decontaminate and restart. Here’s a good explanation: udel.edu/academics/colleges/canr/news/2023/march/eggs-or-meat/
Gretchen
@Captain C: Good idea!
I don’t understand how you can even have a society if contracts are no longer enforceable. They seem to even see contracts that have already been fulfilled, the agreed-upon money spent and agreed-upon tasks completed, if someone just doesn’t want to pay. But we all rely on contracts every day for all kinds of things, from buying a house or car to agreements for work to be done. Are they saying that we are all Donald Trump now, and we can just look at any contract we’ve signed and say I’ve changed my mind? Sue me?
oldgold
@hells littlest angel: “I wonder why eggs are through the roof but chicken prices haven’t changed.”
This may answer the age old question as to which came first; however, it offers no insight as why they cross roads.
Josie
@CaseyL:
So sorry for your loss.
tam1MI
@CaseyL: So sorry for your loss, CaseyL. All the hugs and condolences.
cw moss
@Sure Lurkalot: I hope not but I fear you’re right. I think it won’t be a direct refusal to pay. It’ll be some weird oblique approach and/or systematic failure from the damage musk and his incel warriors do. That’s when we’ll find out what we’re really made of.
apocalipstick
@kindness:
I like Elie Mystal’s proposal: 25 justices and random draw to select the nine or eleven who hear any case.
Tazj
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: I am grateful that the thought of Alito in confession has never crossed my mind up until this point.
However, I can tell you conservative Catholics today seemed to have skipped over the parts of the Gospel that concern being a good neighbor and treating others as you would like to be treated. Abortion and being anything other than straight are considered the biggest sins. And how convenient for them, being straight and male, they can’t commit these sins so it’s up to them to police everyone else.
Matt McIrvin
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: where’s Jesus with a whip flippin’ over tables when you need him?
Soprano2
@CaseyL: I’m so sorry for your loss, but I’m glad you got the extra time with him.
Matt McIrvin
@Sure Lurkalot: It’s a lot like the debt limit– it sounds like a credit limit, and Republicans act as if it’s a credit limit, but it’s not, it’s a stop on payment for debts already incurred.
TBone
@WTFGhost: thank you! It was a healing blessing and I got to hug my new Episcopalian priest and thank him for sending his prayers for Noah to us during our absence! He was so kind and joyful to hear of Noah’s complete recovery today!
And it is always a good thing to remember: to dust we shall return. Helps keep things in proper perspective!
On the way home, a very sinful song was played on the radio. Reminded me of last night’s Supremacist Court bewitchery!
🎶
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxi28-abUpw
Still need more Communion hahahaha! “Keep coming back!”
Tazj
@CaseyL: I’m sorry.
TBone
@JaySinWA: it’s not after dark in church – they light candles! Hahaha you made me LOL
TBone
@CaseyL: I’m so sorry. I hope the gift of that time is a comfort to you in these times of so much grief and pain. I hope your memories of his life bring you peace very soon.
Tazj
@cain: I was very happy that he did that. I know that there are some Democrats that hate that stuff but I don’t. I read in social media last night that Steve Schale, who works on Democratic campaigns in Florida, said that he hates when Republicans do that stuff too and Democrats would be better off registering voters in swing states. I think we can do both. Trump is so far from the normal president that I think his speaking up will inspire people.
TONYG
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: I “grew up” as a Catholic before I abandoned all religion at age 17. News flash: Catholics lie — lie to themselves, to each other and to everyone else. The many flavors of Protestantism lie too, of course, but the Catholics have had almost 2,000 years to perfect their culture of lying.
No One of Consequence
@Torrey: Slow citizen kane clap. Well-played.
-NOoC
TBone
@No One of Consequence: 1,000% hard agree! Especially points for Marty Feldman reference!
👀
gratuitous
Paul Campos at Lawyers Guns and Money had this to say in the interval before the Court’s snappy 5-4 muddle of a decision:
There’s more at the link, establishing the point that under the circumstances, the issuance of this opinion should have been unanimous and fast. It was neither, suggesting again that the whole idea of “settled law” is no longer a tenet of American jurisprudence. I have been informed that Big Money eschews uncertainty in the law as being bad for business and an invitation to bad actors. If, as appears, the highest court in the land no longer feels bound by the plain language of the Constitution or statutes and regulations that have withstood a constitutional challenge, that would seem to be the ultimate uncertainty.
No One of Consequence
@TBone: I fucking LOVE Marty Feldman. Evidently, the guy was a real mensch too, which makes it all the better.
I loved him in Yellow Beard.
The movie that contains the absolute comedic classic lines:
Blind Pew : “I may be blind, but I have acute ‘earing. ”
British Officer interrogating him: “We’re not interested in your jewelry, cloth-eyes.”
And I too appreciate your prose, and occasionally your musical tastes as well, TBone.
No One of Consequence
@Torrey: Upon reflection, I do take one minor stylistic squabble with your word selection:
May I suggest, ‘the Membered‘ ?
For some reason, this edit gave me a chortle. YMMV, and yours in prose,
-NOoC
steve g
What, do you mean by “checked” something like having the district court decision subject to review by a higher authority? Why yes, yes it does mean exactly that. And that’s exactly what happened. Moron.
HopefullyNotcassandra
@Omnes Omnibus: Samuel Alito is fine with some judge in Texas disrupting our submarines by voiding Covid vaccine requirements. He just wants more “tips” and tax free “tips”, too!
Freemark
@CaseyL: No amount of time is ever enough. But no matter how much it hurts we never regret the time we spent with them. I feel it is safe to say Oscar had no regrets either.
brantl
@CaseyL: so sorry to hear that.
am
@Betty Cracker
I rarely reply here, and even when I do, I try to not get intemperate. Oh well!
I am glad you posted bsky.app/profile/mjsdc.bsky.social/post/3ljn5xktrns2d and, given everything going on, I hope it isn’t swept under the rug. Good God I’m glad you are still around and hope your health is good.
Along with talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/toward-a-theory-of-civic-sede-vacantism, I think a certain idea is hitting a bit of critical mass.
This dissent is a disgrace. And that is by the standards of our time, which are not high. I am glad that it is stuck in the historical record, and Alito’s immature shipost is enshrined forever as a monument to what a heap of garbage he is as a person and – even moreso – what a shitty jurist he has allowed himself to become.
The gall calling out the lower court. They are the only one that is correct, and it is obvious to anyone with half a brain. Any disinterested undergraduate liberal arts student can read the situation and plain language of concerns involved without elaborate jurisdictional theory concerns. He has so lost the plot that, in my opinion, his entire body of prior precedent is should be called into question. Every single concurrence or decision from him should considered non-binding and irrelevant in the future by current courts. He simply doesn’t know what he’s talking about, since he’d rather show up at conservative junkets and be a political operative than prioritizing being a judicial scholar, even a half-assed one.
The cherry on top, is on a personal and human level, he is a fucking ghoulish monster. He sees $2 billion dollar, not the actual lives saved. And he can’t even work an ounce of human sympathy or decency into this dissent, which is now part of the history eternal of American jurisprudence.
am
I can’t even. “Stunned” my fat ass.
I bet he is stunned. I bet going be absolutely indignant retelling this to conservative donors at retreat at a luxurious ranch owned by another conservative donor along with a couple nepo appointees from the Federalist Society over small plates of elk pâté while getting paid a 5 honararium for it.
I bet he puts more thought and effort into anonymously posting on Truth Social at 2 am than he did into writing this smarmy dissent.
la caterina
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg: Since dissents are not binding, most competent attorneys I know do not cite to them.
am
“How dare my colleagues not indulge the playing out of the clock by
my friends and racquetball buddiesthe respected representatives of the government, and how dare this peon district judge used 250 years of prior interpretation and plain constitutional language to suggest the handsome and virtulent president does not have king-like powers”I’m going to breath into a paper bag for a while. Thanks again for posting this.
CaseyL
Thank you all for the condolences.
Gloria DryGarden
@Torrey: perhaps dick-brained, or micro dick? The first merely labels the common malfunction one sees. .. The second is body shaming, sort of a low blow, although sometimes tempting.
tbone
Gloria DryGarden
@CaseyL: im so sorry.
chemiclord
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
You never have to confess if you are above petty human sin.
TBone
@am: your comment is a work of art.
thalarctosMaritimus
@CaseyL: Casey, I’m so sorry.
Kayla Rudbek
@CaseyL: sorry about Oscar.
am
@TBone: appreciate it. works of art tend to be less thoroughly ridden with typos, but glad you enjoyed it. I wish it was even cathartic.
It’s not even worth bothering trying to insult Alito. May his name become its own eponymous insult befitting his conduct, like Benedict Arnold.