“The terms used by presidents & by members of their administration, Cabinet officers, other high-ranking officers in describing the Supreme Court & their decisions, & sometimes individual justices, is far different from what we saw 15 years ago,” #Alito said.
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… #Trump, for his part, has cheered #Alito as “one of the Greatest of All Time” even as he maligned justices whom he appointed as “unpatriotic” & “merely a shell of their original selves.” Alito said the harsh rhetoric from across the spectrum doesn’t affect how the justices rule but does play a role in the public’s declining trust in the court.
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Justice #Alito told AP in a rare interview that the rhetoric about the court from #Trump & his admin doesn’t sit well with him.
“I personally am not pleased with that,” he said. “Everybody in this country has the right to criticize what we do. The substance of their criticism can be quite harsh. If we deserve it, then that’s fine. But rhetoric is a different story.”
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The number of petitions asking the justices to intervene quickly has skyrocketed during #Trump’s 2nd admin, putting the court at the center of hotly debated issues such as Trump’s new #ballroom construction & his proposed restrictions on #MailBallots in the #midterms.
The number of emergency applications now rivals the annual tally of cases the justices consider with full briefing & oral arguments, #Alito wrote in a new book released Tuesday.
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Scorpion & the toad…, tiger by the tail…, don’t complain about the monster you created jackass.
#Alito says #SCOTUS can’t stem emergency appeals & voices concern over #Trump’s rhetoric.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito says the escalating volume of emergency appeals before the court isn’t a good thing, but he adds there’s little the court can do to change the trajectory.
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