It’s Supreme Court decision season, so that means it’s also silly season for media-activist hit jobs on the conservative justices. There are two transparent purposes of these: to intimidate the justices into trimming their sails for fear of more criticism, and (when that fails) to delegitimize their decisions and lay the groundwork for radical changes to destroy the Court in its longstanding form. This has all been part of an ongoing campaign for years now. This time, the target is Justice Samuel Alito — or, really, his wife.
One of the recurring players in the anti-Court campaign is Jodi Kantor of the New York Times, a pro-Roe writer and Slate alum previously seen feeding the narratives of left-wing law professors, including Slate’s Leah Litman. Kantor’s latest is entitled “At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display,” as if it was reporting on a current event rather than a dispute among neighbors that happened three and a half years ago but is being surfaced now only because, as Kantor admits, “in coming weeks, the justices will rule on two climactic cases involving the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6, including whether Mr. Trump has immunity for his actions.” One of these, of course, is a statutory-interpretation case, and the other involves a long-term legal principle in a case where neither Alito nor anybody else on the Court expressed any sympathy for Donald Trump’s conduct.
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