As Trump Dodges Court Orders, Samuel Alito Suggests Obeying Judges Can Be Optional

[MayReasonRule]

A justice suggests flouting democratic norms after taking part in a decades-long project to weaken democratic rights.

Justice Samuel Alito wants to know what a state should do if a court orders it to draw a new congressional map under faulty logic. Put more broadly, what should a litigant do if it believes that a court has made an order in error?

The answer, of course, is to obey the court order. Decisions can be appealed, and sometimes confronted through the political process. But if anyone could simply discard a court order they disagreed with, we would not be governed by the rule of law.

There is a through line connecting attacks on voting rights and flagrantly ignoring bedrock democratic principles.

Alito’s query in Monday’s oral arguments in a redistricting case from Louisiana laid out a very different approach—one that is particularly troubling at this very moment, as the Trump administration is repeatedly disobeying court orders. The administration has not declared a right to ignore the courts, but its lawyers are toeing the line of malpractice in multiple cases by dodging court orders. Whether it is refusing to turn around planes carrying nearly 300 migrants to a labor camp in El Salvador or to release federal funding that the administration claims it can refuse to spend, the Trump administration is currently trying to blow past the orders of federal judges to enact its anti-democratic agenda.

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[William769]

1. Fuck Alito & the pale horse he rode in on.

[Scrivener7]

2. God, that man is an imbecile.

[J_William_Ryan]

3. "Alito Suggests Obeying Judges Can Be Optional"

Alito is as much a fascist and Trump and Thomas.

[Mysterian]

4. A traitor on our highest court

His just reward would be severe.

[In It to Win It]

5. You mean the same Sam Alito that gave the Biden DOJ shit for HYPOTHETICALLY not obeying a court order over abortion?

[hlthe2b]

6. Record-breaking POS, that one... I used to give some thought that his anger at being passed over for

Chief Justice to Roberts, was the root of his "issues." But, no, I think he's just a despicably obnoxious excuse for a human.

[Kid Berwyn]

7. Sammy the Traitor

10 Ways Samuel Alito Has Changed Your Life



1. Ban Abortions
2. Support Insurrectionists
3. More Pollution
4. Dark Money in Politics
5. Voter Suppression
6. More Gun Violence
7. Christian Extremism
8. Forced Evictions
9. Crush Dreamers
10. Block Student Debt Relief

Source w/details: TheDemsLab.org

https://thedemlabs.org/2024/05/18/how-samu

[bluestarone]

8. By this statement he should be REMOVED.

Edit this to add., the next question to ask him is Can a Supreme court ruling be disobeyed?

[bucolic_frolic]

9. Is Sammy a John Bircher? /nt