Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
By any fair measure, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was already one of the nation’s most controversial jurists, having earned a reputation as the high court’s most reflexively partisan ideologues. But the past week has taken questions about the far-right justice to a striking new level. It was a week ago today when The New York Times published this report, noting that in early 2021, between the Jan.
’” If Alito is hoping another my-wife-had-a-run-in-with-an-unkind-neighbor defense is going to work, he’s going to be disappointed. Indeed, the challenge is now greater for the justice’s allies: How will they defend these cascading controversies now that the initial talking points have collapsed? It’s possible, of course, that Alito will simply shrug his shoulders in indifference.
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