After that thug Scalia’s shameful tenure on the SCOTUS bench, why are we surprised by any of his SUCK-cessors’ actions?

IMPEACHMENT!! add Roberts too. They both said under oath that they respected precedent and would follow the principle of stare decisis. Then they have overturned over a century of rulings and laws regarding corporate campaign finance with Citizens United. They are activist and corporatist judges and need to be removed from office for purjury and/or treason. Won’t happen, but a guy can dream.

Alito, Roberts, Scalia, and Thomas are advocates, the antitheses of judges. There will be very few cases coming before the court that cannot easily be perceived as conflicts.

Right, The Senate Judicial Committee just had a hearing on weather to impeach a Federal Judge (they did a lousy job of it BTW) but the mechanism is there and ready to roll. This is a good prima facie case for impeachment.

Alito’s lame attempt at the Jedi Mind control trick.

Apparently upholding the law is what the Aliar thinks is unimportant.

Ginni Thomas is the head of an anti-government POLITICAL organization.

The group sells crap to raise funds…crap that is apparently NOT made in the USA by American workers.

Justice Thomas does not recuse himself from cases where he has a clear-cut conflict of interest.

All of this is tolerated…why??

“These are not the criminal judges you seek…”

Right. Having a Supreme Court judge openly in the pocket of one of the political parties is ‘not important’. He would likely say the same thing if he was caught taking bribes.

start impeachment procedings,,,

Impeach the _

Do you think he should be held to at least the same standard as Keith Olbermann?

In a perfect world we could expect that this embarrassment to our judicial system would be investigated and even possibly impeached.

Sadly, we don’t live in Perfect.

This court and its right-wing judges make a mockery of justice. The conflicts of interest are pervasive and if there any shred of integrity left in this nation’s government, these activist judges must be removed from office. MUST BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE. 250,000 assembled on the Mall to see Cobert and Stewart. A million need to march on Washington to impeach these partisan thugs.

We damned well do live in Perfect, if we DEMAND IT.

This is part of the Reagan Revolution. When the deregulation of the media was enacted it set the stage for Murdoch and others to own the information that the citizens of the US are feed as News. We are done until the bottom shocks the fools that vote against their own interests. The regulations that have been removed since Ray Gun was the patsy of the corporations need to be reenacted one by one. Additionally the surrender of our soverienty to the WTO needs to be undone. Get used to it, we are fucked big time and will be begging for someone who can bring back the middle class. How are things in China right now? Booming, they are even having some issues to deal with that a collective of workers are putting forward. Soon we may be able to get some jobs back because our poor will work for the wages that used to go to China when the workers were without any options.

IMPEACH the SOB Now!!!!!

He’s a despicable Nazi with no soul and no conscience.

In other words, a fine, upstanding Republican.

I question to Alito is this. WHO THE F DO YOU THINK YOU ARE??? IF A MILLION OF US MARCH ON DC TO REMOVE YOUR CARCASS, DO YOU THINK YOU’LL BE STICKING AROUND?

Impeachment fot Roberts and Thomas as well.

Just think – 150 years ago, stiff humorless “conservative” white guys like Samuel were using brilliant legal reasoning to convince each other that it was perfectly OK to own beautiful black women like Dorothy Dandridge, Whitney Houston, Halle Berry, Vanessa Williams and Beyonce.

These guys are just as clueless today.

Yeah, and a whole shitload of us demanded an end to the wars, trials for the war criminals that occupied the White House for eight years and jail time for the Wall Street fraudsters too.

Sorry, I can’t not hold my breath any longer.

Does Justice Alito recuse himself when donors to his fundraisers coincidentally appear in front of SCOTUS?

One assumes that Justice Alito agrees with the fund’s disbursements to High Priestess of the Breaking Winds Christine O’Donnell, and conservative cinematographer, Planned Parenthood punker, pimp renderer, convicted phone system scammer, and ACORN denouncer James O’Keefe. If so, I find it hard to evoke any confidence in Alito, one of the most conservative justices ever (but compared to Thomas he is both left and thoughtful).

This activist Supreme Court, in the Citizens United decision, recently gave freedom of speech rights to Corporations, a move that thows out 100 years of campaign fiance laws starting with the Tillman Act of 1907 (which forbade corporate campaign contributions). The court’s ruling resulted in corporations being able to contribute unlimited moneys to political campaigns, basically dominating media markets during elections, and to do so in complete secrecy. 2010 saw an explosion in secret spending; 2012 will be a flood, a debacle. HELP US FIGHT THIS DISASTER. We MUST pass the DISCLOSE ACT, which would at least reveal who these hidden corporate donors are. JOIN US. http://www.demanddisclosurenow.org

Arrogant Bastard.

what would be his comment if a liberal judge was doing the same thing with ‘acorn’ ?

we already know the answer

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Alito Roberts Scalia and Thomas They should all be Impeached for those people who think both sides are alike ONE word “JUDGES”
Elections have consequences LONG LASTING CONSEQUENCES !

You moron Acorn and Judges GIVE US A BREAK!

This can not go on and we all must do something about it. To complain is not enough… He must be impeached!

Impeach the pig. In fact, any appointments by Bush should be declared null and void.

…and if the Repubes get their way with abolishing the minimum wage your nightmare will probably come true.

At minimum he should be held to the Code of Conduct for US judges.

Now THAT would be a fantasy come true.

there is little doubt in my mind with Justice Thomas and Justice Scalia attending strategy meetings with the Koch brothers, and this fellow Justice Alito raising money for conservative causes they should all three be removed from the court. This is absolutely unconscionable. The Supreme Court is not supposed to be right or left although it is. It is supposed to try cases based on the Constitution. The Constitution is a very simple document and as far as I’m concerned is hard to read it too many ways.

get these people out of the court immediately

what a hack. Of course its important.

actually you’re going to be hard pressed to find anything that acorn has been convicted for. Acorn turned in a couple of its own members who were convicted, but other than that there is absolutely nothing you can say about acorn. All the charges against them have failed. All of your heroes Andrew Breitbart’s little films have been proven to be fake. I’m sorry, but your post made little sense

And they called Judge Vaughn Walker an ‘Activist Judge’ when he ruled Prop 8 unconstitutional.

Obama will have to fix this if he ever expects a snowball’s chance at term-2.

Well it seems Supreme Court Justices can break the law and there is no problem. It’s seems Keith was suspended by mistake as now anyone can break the law if your in the right party. All this talk about impeaching Obama for being black and working for the people. Now we learn no need to go to the highest Court the criminals are judging the people for laws they don’t even follow.

put him on trial. he looks guilty as sin according to the guidelines.

what’s keeping obama/holder from ousting him?

oh, that’s right. lack of spine. i should keep that in mind.

It is NOT a fantasy. If the GOP is going to investigate the O man and try to impeach him for mythical offenses the Dem’s MUST stand up and go after Alito and Thomas for these activities and bring charges against Roberts for lying UNDER OATH in his confirmation where he affirmed that he would NOT be an activist judge and would respect precedent.

Write your Congress person and Senators and demand that they take action. Maybe a couple MILLION letters will get through to the politicians that we the people are not going to roll over and turn out the light after getting screwed!

Is there a point to this post?
Please respond in english.

Someone want to tell me the difference between Alito and Roland Freisler? Because I am not seeing any difference…

Unfortunately the founders of ACORN were charged with embezzling and or misappropriating funds. Not government funds corporate funds none the less.
Does this have ANYTHING to do with their actual activities like Rep Isa and the Repugnants would like you to believe? No but of course when you live in a fact free fantasy world what is most important is what you can get on the TV!

Someone better call Darrell Issa. I think we have his first investigation into corruption. Oh, that’s right, he’s only going after Dems. Never mind.

excuse me justice alito, but yes it is. i am getting sick and tired of the political activities of a court which is supposed to be impartial. they are out right flaunting bias and wallowing in money and causes which are not in the interest of WE the people in totality but of of a few. and at the fews behest.

these people have no respect for the court or the constitution. they think that the constitution supports only their positions and no others and that they can do as they please because they are right and don’t you dare question it.

so, any doubts alito will do just as his mother said and try to outlaw all abortions?

“…these aren’t the droids you’re looking for.”

And the conservatives complain about activist judges? This is the most activist SCOTUS of all time.

do you mean “WHEN he gets caught taking bribes?”

What? You mean it ain’t ethical to tip a justice?

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It’s very simple. He willfully and knowingly violated the Code of Conduct. “I am the law, and I’ll make it up as I go along if I so desire.”

Impeachment and removal from the bench is the only logical path. We would do so to any liberal judge. The standard should be no different for any other judge.

Alito’s remarks and actions have disqualified him from serving, and I use that term VERY liberally, considering his SCOTUS rulings so far, on our Supreme Court. Let him go serve on Iran’s Supreme Court, if he feels so wedded to ideology. He took an oath. He violated it, and continues to do so. He must go. Period.

Typing practice. Not going so well though.

The authoritarian Roberts Vatican majority that controls the Supreme Court is arrogantly corrupt. Bush v. Gore demolished the Court’s legitimacy; Citizens United shattered any bedrock on which that legitimacy might have been rebuilt.

Today’s United States Supreme Court is what federal law denominates a R.I.C.O., a racketeer influenced corrupt organization. It’s decisions have the force of power, but are bereft of legal and moral authority.

He needs to be impeached, right away, if he doesn’t resign. The Lame Duck Congress could do us all a favor by getting him out of there. Now!

Keep in mind that Alito is the guy who told the Senate confirmation panel when he was nominated for the US Court of Appeals that he would “recuse himself on any legal matter involving Vanguard Funds” . .. which he owned shares of. When he was on the bench, he refused to recuse himself in the first Vanguard related case he heard, and in fact overturned a judgment against Vanguard.

And – the Senators who confirmed him for the Supreme Court KNEW he had in effect perjured himself before the prior panel, yet still confirmed.

WTF . . . to the 10th power.

“These are not the droids you’re looking for.”
“They can go about their business.”
“Move along, move along.”

Neither President Obama nor AG Holder can “oust” him.

Holder could appoint a special counsel to look into his (and Thomas’s etc. misdeeds), but according to the law, Alito either must resign or be impeached as a federal judge.

It has happened before, and since he clearly violates his judicial code of conduct he has to go. NOW!

This man and Roberts cannot be taken out of the court. As everyone knows it is lifetime. This means all they have done so far to wreck America for all things not corporate or right wing, they can continue to do. People keep pointing out how they both lied during the hearings. Well of course they do. This is how they get in.

We have no objective Supreme Court. What we have is several right wing activists. We might as well dump the court. And we cannot do that either. All we can do is hope one of them dies off before the next election.

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The Timidocrats wouldn’t even investigate obvious war crimes by Bush and Cheney, what on earth makes you think they would take on yet another obvious and gross violation of federal codes of conduct by this Alito scumbag?

I knew he was bad news. Obama drives me up the wall, but I give him a shred of credit for NOT voting to put this horrible, racist right-wing enema bag on the Supreme Court. (Neither, incredibly enough, did LIEberman, Blanche Lincoln, Mark Pryor, or some of the other infamous DINOs.)

Which Democrats did vote for this jerk?

Robert Byrd, Kent Conrad, and Ben Nelson!

Look at what got Abe Fortas canned. It pales in comparison to the current right wing ideologues. But it is apparently only enforced against more liberal jurists. The hunting trips with Cheney and Scalia should have ended that one’s career, but the dems are too afraid of the howing republicants to do anything about it.

i was aware that there was a process. but i doubt that holder would have the impetus to go after him alone. not that this isn’t a open and shut case based upon his actions.

but then again, obama let bush, cheney, rummy and condi free without even an investigation.

knowing how namby-pamby O is, i wont hold my breath.

This is the guy who refuses to go to anymore state of the union addresses because they are partisan?

right – he won’t attend the state of the union but will attend right wing fund raisers.

It’s a very bad idea but…it does provide the opposite side with an excuse to do the same.
And it worked.

Just another example of the growing polarization of the American people and an exacerbation of it.

They didn’t go after him last year because of the fear of stroking a war with the republicans (which was a war anyway) and they definitely won’t do it this year because of the massive drumming they took last week. Our whole political system has been corrupted.

So somebody file a court case.

If Alito was half-way honorable he would have run for political office, rather than become a judge. He is biased and corrupt, aitting on the bench and doing business for his corporate masters.

Impeach!

ok i will simplify

a conservative judge ‘helping to raise political money as the keynote’ speaker at a conservative organization

vs:

a liberal judge ‘helping to raise political money as the keynote’ speaker at a liberal organization

with the knowledge that :

“… According to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, a justice should not “solicit funds for, pay an assessment to, or make a contribution to a political organization or candidate, or attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate.” …”

Impeach and remove. A S.Ct. justice should be fair and impartial at all times. Alito has shown, with his fundraising efforts, that he is anything but.

Oh, Sammy, stop beating around the Bush here: what you mean to say is that RULE OF LAW isn’t important! To you, that is. A little personal integrity here, please.

Oh, never mind.

Alito’s appointment didn’t “shift[] the court to the right,” it shifted it to the outright wacko. This man is a disgrace.

“Supreme Court Justice Alito: My fundraising for conservative causes is ‘not important’ “.

Of course not. Nothing but “blind” Justice’s with loaded shotguns doing the patrolling for the corporate pigs.

[language purity police sez: DRUBBING!] :)

He’s right…it isn’t important…to him. When you enter the highest court in the land with the intention of being a conservative activist, which is why you were picked for the post (judicial skill had nothing to do with it) in the first place…then that’s the role you fulfill.

Of course…for the rest of us…some charges should be leveled against oozing human pustules that disgrace the court.

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Here at World Spinner we are debating the same thing……

Expect to hear the phrase “Impeachment is off the table” any time now.

A recent poll suggested that the U.S. was far from the most corrupt nation on Earth. What they failed to note is that in the U.S. all common forms of corruption have been legalized.

Today’s question: Can you be a Supreme Court Justice and a whore at the same time?

Another blunder of the so=called liberal dem known as Pelosi, Reid as well.
Alito never deserved a chance, he’s a disgusting pile of tripe, Rove in a Robe.

Funny how all the drooling winnguts get all worked up when folks tell the truth about their heroes Bush and Cheney. For two years have been saying he’s off topic because Obama is POTUS. But now his book of deceit is on tour, and the election is over, they cherish him like a God! And that is where Alito and Roberts come up, the Bush legacy of activist far right jurists will damage America FOR A FEW DECADES!! And then his foreign policy of illegal war will hurt America forever.

Alito, Roberts, Thomas and Scalia are as pure as scum gets!

This fails the “good behavior” test in the Constitution. And who initiates impeachment proceedings? Thanks to Barack Obama’s incompetence and personal corporate sell-out, the now Republican Party controlled U.S. House of Representatives.

By the time all is said and done, it is going to be mind boggling what Barack Obama has done to all progress in this country.

Although a U.S. Supreme Court justice may not need a law license, it might nonetheless be instructive to file a disbarment proceeding against
Alito in N.Y. or N.J. in an effort to distinguish the ethical from the other,

No, impeachment of right wing criminals is “off the table.” I doubt that they would go so far as to rule out impeachment of Obama/Biden, on the off chance that one of their 100 investigations should drag up a blue dress equivalent.

You assume that Obama could get anything but a right-wing neo-con through the Senate at this point.

Never do it. Abortion is a wedge issue that keeps Dems and Reps at each other’s throats so the Corporations can bleed us dry. They won’t take it away.

Yup. You could make it ten million or a hundred million and it wouldn’t change a thing.

Add one more WHORE judge for sale. Hope they are not surprised when thinking people revolt!!

it’s important to me…impeachment time for this guy…they can include Thomas as well…

“His appointment shifted the court to the right.”
The article got it backwards. It should read:
His appointment shifted the court to the wrong.

“It’s not important that I’m here” – wow sounds like a fail at the Jedi mind thing!

Roberts as well.

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This activist Supreme Court, in the Citizens United decision, recently gave freedom of speech rights to Corporations, a move that thows out 100 years of campaign fiance laws starting with the Tillman Act of 1907 (which forbade corporate campaign contributions). The court’s ruling resulted in corporations being able to contribute unlimited moneys to political campaigns, basically dominating media markets during elections, and to do so in complete secrecy. 2010 saw an explosion in secret spending; 2012 will be a flood, a debacle. HELP US FIGHT THIS DISASTER. We MUST pass the DISCLOSE ACT, which would at least reveal who these hidden corporate donors are. JOIN US. http://www.demanddisclosurenow.org

In 2009, Alito also headlined a fundraising dinner for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which funded the conservative journalist James O’Keefe

The jokes are invading this country.

Altio funded pimp O’Keefee? Pimp O’Keefee made the fake Acorn video. Pimp O’Keefee tried to set up a CNN reporter. Pimp O’Keefee tried to wiretap at Senators phone.

Alito funds the Pimps aka Conservatives. Note: Conservatives will do anything except live by morals.

The Senate is still in Democratic hands.

IMPEACH!

It should be obvious by now that we are under attack from an enemy within, and they are being aided and abetted by four SCOTUS justices: Roberts, Scalia, Thomas and Alito.

It’s very suspicious that Roberts specifically requested the Citizens United case be brought before the court for a ruling, even though none of the parties to the lawsuit appealed. Think about that. For one thing, that means the Citizens United case was not even properly before the court. So what motivated Roberts to ignore legal procedure and single out this particular case for an immediate ruling? What was the urgency? And that ruling came down in very short order last January, conveniently giving plenty of time for it to make a serious impact on the midterm elections.

And we now know with absolute certainty that three other SCOTUS justices have been involved with a group of plutocrats secretly conspiring to what basically translates into at the very least sedition, and at worst, acts of treason. They have publicly declared ‘war’ on Obama a/k/a POTUS. I think that really translates into a declaration of war against the American citizenry in general; and in particular, they seek to dismantle ALL progressive policies. By the plutocrats’ own words, they are engaged in class warfare. The rule of law, our civil rights, our liberties, freedoms and the people in general are all under attack by the plutocrats through their foot soldiers, the republican party (as well as the so-called “conservative” dems) and their heavily funded teatard minions–and are being aided and abetted by the corporately owned MSM.

Also consider that Justice Thomas’ wife received anonymous funding ($500,000+) to start her little teatard group just prior to the Citizens United decision.

And BTW, this isn’t the first time wealthy conservatives have attempted to overthrow our govt. Recall, that in the 1930s prescott bush and a bunch of his republican bankster/corporate buddies attempted unsuccessfully to overthrow our govt. It was also a group of conservatives (banksters/corporations) around that same time that provided the funding that allowed the nazis to rise to power. Prescott Bush even had a file entitled, “the Hitler project.” So the republicans have a sordid history in our nation–and the bastards are at it again.

http://www.truth-out.org/bill-moyers-money-fights-hard-and-it-fights-dirty64766
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/obama-chamber-donohue-second-inning_n_779222.html
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/08/afp-lame-duck/
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer

98% versus 2% sounds like pretty good odds to me. So when do we storm the gates?

Watch this guy not show up for the next State of the Union speech.

Can we impeach this guy, please?
I’m assuming it’s at least theoretically possible.

If they reverse Roe v Wade this would NOT automatically “outlaw all abortions.” It would simply afford states the power to pass anti-abortion legislation once again—legislation that was effectively invalidated by Roe. The last thing the GOP wants—although they pretend otherwise—is a showdown with (healthy majority) pro-choicers in every single state in the Union! They would end up with massive egg on their faces, and abortion rights platforms would sweep Democrats back into huge majorities in both Houses (only GOPers left would be in the deep South, where they are anyway). No, reversing Roe would be a disaster for the GOP, which is why the SCOTUS has been tapdancing around it for decades.

I’d like to say, “Sammy, it’s not important that you’re ANYWHERE.”

Impeach.

Why isn’t Scamuel Alito in prison?

He lied to Congress. He lied to all Americans. And then he joined with other Republican liars on the Supreme Court to rule in favor of billionaires in Citizens United and against our democracy, against transparency, against America.

This is why I will now only call him Scam-uel Olito.

There are Rule of Law Democrats…and then there are Rule of Lawlessness Republicans, with Scam-uel Olito being one of these Republicans.

This is the man who lied at his hearings. He said he wouldn’t change precedent and he was not an activist. Isn’t their something that can be done about a judge who lies in order to gain a seat on the highest court in the land? This man is a disgrace to the integrity and decency of the court. This current supreme court is definitely NOT a class act! In fact, they are downright disgraceful!

… I like your thinking , yvonneo . You put up some interesting stuff . Keep it up , helps me feel a little less alone , I’m amazed at how many Americans know so little about the leaders they(we) allow to wield power .

The Code of Conduct for United States Judges is not important to Sammy Scalito.

Whatcha gonna do about it, punks? Impeach him? Scalito laughs at the little people!

Well well, Keith Olbermann is held to a stricter level of political neutrality than the US Supreme Court,

This SOB needs to be impeached.

This clearly shows the unmitigated bias in this judge on the Supreme Court. The bias is clearly not acknowledged by him. This is a dangerous judge that should be removed.

“The Supreme Court is the final guardian of our liberties, and Judge Alito has shown that he lacks the dedication to that commitment.”

The Supreme Court guards nothing. The guardians are the US military, law enforcement, and the people assigned to the physical security of the nation. The court are a bunch of men in robes, who are prone to blackmail, manipulation, and bullying by all sorts of people. The fact that the supreme court is ideological at all is proof of this.

Does the ‘Lamestream Media’ have higher ethical standards than SCOTUS? Alito’s comment “it’s not important” seems to say as much. – http://bit.ly/c39n02

All the more reason why the Senate needs to get rid of the filibuster and Obama needs to make filling judicial vacancies a top priority over the next two years. Long term, the goal must be an anti-corporatist SCOTUS majority and the overruling of Citizens United and other precedent that gives corporations the same constitutional rights as individuals. Corporations should have no rights other the ownership rights of their shareholders.

Alito’s statement speaks volumes about him and his disregard for the Constitution. and Americans have to put up with this man until he chooses to retire. Wish that he would do us a favor and take an early retirement. The jerk.

Funny, my first year paralegal text book defines conflict of interest as this: “conflict of interest does not, in fact, have to exist for one to recuse themselves; simply the appearance of or the opportunity for conflict of interest”. Go to Hell Sammy “The Fish” Alito!

And how many Dems voted for this asshole? There’s your two-party system at work.

“This SOB needs to be impeached.” Absolutely and yesterday is not soon enough.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
- John Maynard Keynes

It’s high time for a f#$king massive rebellion in D.C. Burn it down. This s%%t has to end, and now.

He was confirmed by unanimous consent in the Senate on April 27, 1990

This man needs to be impeached with Clarence Thomas and Scalia

And we need term limits on the SC

Yes, he pleaded ” stare decisis” * to virtually every question on judicial precedence. Unfortunately he has violated that principle every in virtually every case he has participated in since he was seated.

* Stare decisis (Anglo-Latin pronunciation: /ˈstɛəri dɨˈsaɪsɨs]) is a legal principle by which judges are obliged to respect the precedents established by prior decisions. The words originate from the phrasing of the principle in the Latin maxim Stare decisis et non quieta movere: “to stand by decisions and not disturb the undisturbed.”[1] In a legal context, this is understood to mean that courts should generally abide by precedents and not disturb settled matters.[1]

This doctrine is basically a requirement that a Court must follow the rules established by a Court above it.

The doctrine that holdings have binding precedence value is not valid within most civil law jurisdictions as it is generally understood that this principle interferes with the right of judges to interpret law and the right of the legislature to make law.[citation needed] (In Lily Ledbetter and Citizens United they cited nothing and ruled on matters tha t had not been argued at the trial level) Most such systems, however, recognize the concept of jurisprudence constante, which argues that even though judges are independent, they should judge in a predictable and non-chaotic manner. Therefore, judges’ right to interpret law does not preclude the adoption of a small number of selected binding case laws.

Exactly. But 3 Democrats–Byrd, Nelson, and Conrad–cross party lines to confirm him to the court.

Some of the worst of the worst (Lieberman, Landrieu, Lincoln, etc.) couldn’t even stomach putting this liar and conservative operative on SCOTUS.

He can be impeached. It has happened to numerous US judges for misbehavior.

Even a Supreme Court judge, Samuel Chase, has been impeached. It occurred in 1804, and was the result of his allegedly allowing his Federalist leanings to influence his votes. The Senate did not convict him, however, and he served until his retirement in 1811.

Alito’s behavior is far worse and provable. He’s got to go.

This should be big news, all over the place. What an outrage. I have not heard this anywhere in mainstream / cable news yet. FTW

Yes, a member of the House of Representatives should introduce articles of impeachment, even though it will go nowhere. But also, someone needs to file a complaint with all the bar associations of which Sammy is a member. That might actually go somewhere.

“Why isn’t Scamuel Alito in prison?”

I suspect it is for the same reason that the one who “Scamuleted” him for the position also is on the lose still.

We must do it soon. Yesterday was not soon enough.

It looks that way to me.

Just another lying pig nominated by a war criminal to be sure the American people are led down the rosy path to fascism. And half of our population is so ignorant they make for very easy marks. We’re just like fools throwing our treasures away in a casino — only the stakes are higher.

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SCOTUS Altio violated “Code of conduct” and participates in political fundraising. events.

Judicial Activism rears its ugly head.

treasonist scumbag facilitator.

We need a new Threat Level graph for America, so that Americans can be aware of the threat our nation faces, but this one should have the heading:

Republican Threat to American Freedom and the U.S. Constitution.

Then a full list can be compiled showing how dangerous all the Republicans, especially of the Tea Party kind, are to every man, woman and child in America.

Scamuel Olito saying it’s not important that he’s attending an arch-conservative partisan shindig.

Bill O’Reilly calling for the beheading of a reporter, and the next day calling for him to be beaten up.

A “Christian” pastor putting up ‘kill the doctors” posters in North Carolina.

To put it simply, I haven’t seen this level of conservative and Republican insanity and hate since the 1960s, such concentrated hatred for everything liberal about our liberal democracy, that every American citizens’ life is in danger, which will probably make the killings by right-winger Timothy McVeigh in 1995 look tame by comparison, as well as the killings by right-wing religious nuts on 9/11.

Remember the 1960s? Lynchings and murders of civil rights activists. Assassinations of JFK, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.

The new graph “Republican Threat to American Freedom and the U.S. Constitution” is blinking RED constantly right now. (Hmmm, maybe this is why Red States are RED States).

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il Douche-bag ! Benito Alito, vaffanculo !

impeach the WOP bastard

lol
know the feeling.

Keep those great (SARCASM) decissons coming.
Soon no republic and you’re out of work also.

You’re quite right, Charlie, but I was speaking within the context of the article – impeachment of Roberts, implied. However, your broader point is well taken.

The blatant politicization of the Supreme Court by three of its justices – Scalia, Thomas and Alito – is nothing less than shocking. Roberts is no better at heart, but perhaps feels a need to keep it in a lower key because he is the chief.

Impeaching these clowns is out of reach, but they deserve no less. They are their own judges of their own conduct with no appeal.

Most people will try to get away with something at one time or another. We as Americans should hold our Honored Officials to Honored Standards and remind them of the importance of what they do and the roles they play in our history.

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Now can we unseat him?
This isn’t the first time he’s shown a blatant disregard for conflicts of interest ethics violations.

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For too long, the left has been playing t-ball while the right has been playing hardball – It’s time the left starts playing hardball, too. Beat them on their own terms. Impeach Alito and Roberts. Stand firm on the Bush tax cuts – do not let the GOP hold middle class tax cut extensions hostage so that the wealthiest 2% can continue to get richer while the poor get poorer. Expose the GOP fraud being perpetrated on the American people. At the very least, FIGHT THEM BACK.

It’s disgusting that our supreme court system can be used to further individual agendas rather than upholding and furthering rights. I wish judges like this could be removed from the bench.

impeachment

We do NOT vote for supreme court justices, they do not run for the position either. SCOTUS judges are nominated by the President and have to be confirmed by senate.

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ok i will simplify

a conservative judge ‘helping to raise political money as the keynote’ speaker at a conservative organization

vs:

a liberal judge ‘helping to raise political money as the keynote’ speaker at a liberal organization

with the knowledge that :

“… According to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, a justice should not “solicit funds for, pay an assessment to, or make a contribution to a political organization or candidate, or attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate.” …”

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lying cocksucker…I guess being biased is only a problem when you rule against corporations.

Time for impeachment.

THESE JUSTICES SHOULD BE IMPEACHED THEY OPENED THE GATE OF HELL WITH C.UNITED CASE..

Do you have an example?

an example of what ?

This heedless arrogant judge is about due to be impeached, wouldn’t You say? @lessig @ggreenwald @dredeyedick @alfranken #law #fraud #wankers

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This is outrageous. There was a time in our country’s history that this behavior would have not been tolerated and a sitting justice like Alito would have have to resign in shame when this became public knowledge. No longer is there honor or accountability of ones actions to be a fair and impartial judge. The justice system has been corrupted by money. No longer is the rule of law the law of the land. This country is going down the toilet really quickly. There was a coup in this country in 2000 and we no longer are a nation of laws but a banana republic.The way things are going I doubt there will an election in 2012 but a removal by coup of President Obama by the monied interests. Morals or any sense of ethics are gone forever All signs point to the American way of life and law forever doomed when we let the war criminals bush and cheney off and the supreme ct. overruled the will of the American people in 2000. I feel so sad for our country that the American people let this happen and there is no outrage. Our Constitution is now a piece of toilet paper.

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This is an obscenity. Even Justice Antonin Scalia — by far the most conservative of the nine justices of the Supreme Court — knows not to involve himself in a blatantly political fund-raiser or to contribute to partisan political causes.

Justice Samuel Alito is DEAD WRONG — what he’s doing is a clear conflict of interest that calls into question his impartiality as a justice. It’s a violation of the U.S. Code of Judicial Conduct, to which Justice Alito must be held accountable. There have been lower-court judges who have been IMPEACHED for such conflicts.

This is one story that the mainstream media cannot and must not ignore.

IMPEACH HIM

Yes they did. The country is going to hell in a handbasket.

This is the problem with Republicans across the board they commit unethical actions and than they say “no it’s not or it’s not important ” when their caught. Yes yes yes it is important who you fundraise for Justice Alito. How am I a liberal Democrat to know I will be treated fairly by you if I have to appear in Court in front of you ? Have you done any fundraising for any Pro-life organisations ? Will that effect on your rulings concerning a woman’s right to choose what she does with her body ? How about gun control have you done any fundraising for the NRA ? What about DADT have done any fundraising to keep homosexuals out of the Military ? It matters !

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There you go. Amen!

**What part of “It’s not important” is it that you peons don’t understand????

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Impeach the sack of shit along with Roberts, Scalia and Thomas.

Wow!! Now I know where to go to if i ever need to find a bunch of liberal hippie douchebags… Just in case

Bush!!!

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**What part of “It’s not important” is it that you peons don’t understand????
Hmmm maybe the part where it conflicts with “According to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, a justice should not “solicit funds for, pay an assessment to, or make a contribution to a political organization or candidate, or attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate.”

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What will become of our country? I see laws are only made for certain people. It’s a d*mn shame. We profess to be a nation of laws but if you’re a certain color, or have wealth, laws mean absolutely nothing.

There is no doubt he has broken the law. Do the people in high places ever face a penalty?

“It’s not important .. because there is nothing you can do about it. And besides, it’s not as though my wife was getting a couple of hundred thou a year as long as I decide the right way.”

(Actually, what DOES Mrs. Alito do?)

The Senate is still in Democratic hands. IMPEACH!

“The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”

Another blunder of the so=called liberal dem known as Pelosi

How would Pelosi have any say in the matter of SCOTUS appointments?

Tell it!

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Speak on it!

Well, Shame on you, all.of you commenting Hypocrites, You boasted at the opportunity to get Oboma’s Liberal admirer on the Bench and then you bite and devour the sitting judge for expounding his personal views. Alana K, is a lover of Socialistic Marxism, Yet, that’s is ok…. She is allow to be a Left wing liberal beyond measure. But you will not afford the same freedom to the “Hated Judge Alito”. The fact that you call it an “offence to your constitutional rights” is outrageous. .. Blind Dogs… have any of you you even ever even read the constitution , I fear that if so it was only with the slant of Marxism, and contempt. It is a never ending show of the stupidity that is exhibited by the left, You tear down that one thing that gave you the opportunity to live your liberal forward illicit life styles,
You don’t even see that you are being given a chance to have a good man that believes in fair and just outcomes of the Law. Everyone has their own opinions on everything, But a good judge knows how to separate himself from his decisions. You would insist that everyone allow Alana Kagan to prove She can do the same. But, when a Man stands in the Gap of what is good in this world you all hiss like snakes… These comments make me realize why the doom of America is on the horizon. You’ll truly miss the fairminded conservative judge when the “Law loving Muslim” are on the bench, Sharia will be set as a standard, and your liberal lives will be cut down, with the sward of Islam.

be glad while there is still Men trying to stand up for what is conservative and morally modest. YOU will be destroyed by your freedoms. Because you use them to peruse your lusts. In the end you became slaves to your forward desires.

EC, the politicians rarely get out in front of the public. That is why we the people have to influence their behavior. I don’t remember street protest over Holder looking the other way or the O man saying he wanted to look forward.

If we would have seen a couple hundred thousand in 20 or 30 major cities in the country we would be in the middle of the trial today. As long as we as a citizenry are content to sit behind the key board and bitch rather than get out in the streets do not expect things to change.

There are only two things that the politicians listen to…. campaign contributions and civil unrest!

Shorter Alito: I ripped the blindfold off the scales of justice.

He was confirmed by unanimous consent in the Senate on April 27, 1990.

That was his appointment to rhe 3rd Circuit. If you’re going to copy & paste directly from wikipedia, you should select the correct sentence. ;>)

But 3 Democrats–Byrd, BEN Nelson, and Conrad–crossed party lines to confirm him to the court.

Four, actually; you left out Tim Johnson (SD). But Alito didn’t need their votes for confirmation.

Excuse me? Open your mind and read….

According to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, a justice should not “solicit funds for, pay an assessment to, or make a contribution to a political organization or candidate, or attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate.”

According to the Code of Conduct for United States Judges, a justice should not “solicit funds for, pay an assessment to, or make a contribution to a political organization or candidate, or attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate.”

Which of the above are you suggesting that Justice Alito did?

Change of Venue/Clearandpresentdanger

Please stop stalking me around the internet. Go get your own life and not mine.

Let’s see if we can help you out:

solicit funds for – no suggestion of that

pay an assessment to – no suggestion of that

make a contribution to a political organization or candidate – no suggestion of that

attend or purchase a ticket for a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization or candidate – no suggestion of that.

Again, what is it that you think Justice Alito did?

solicit funds for -

In 2009, Alito also headlined a fundraising dinner for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, which funded the conservative journalist James O’Keefe and Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell. Alito is reported to have helped the institute raise $70,000.

GO FUCK YOURSELF LIAR.

The Supreme Court ruled in 2006 that it is not required to comply with the Code of Judicial Conduct. Congress should pass legislation mandating judges comply with the CJC.

Attend a dinner or other event sponsored by a political organization. Capiche?

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Hey, knock it off the anti-Italian slurs! The W-word is as offensive to Italian-Americans as the N-word is to African-Americans. You don’t need to stoop to the gutter of bigotry to slam Justice Alito.

solicit funds for – .. GO FUCK YOURSELF LIAR.

“A judge may engage in extrajudicial activities, including law-related pursuits and civic, charitable, educational, religious, social, financial, fiduciary, and governmental activities, and may speak, write, lecture, and teach on both law-related and nonlegal subjects.”

“Fund Raising. A judge may assist nonprofit law-related, civic, charitable, educational, religious, or social organizations in planning fund-raising activities and may be listed as an officer, director, or trustee.”

Alito, needs to surrender his seat on the Supreme Court! He is an activist judge and therefore, he cannot make a ruling without prejudice! This is very important to our judicial system. Being actively involved in fund-raising events for conservative matters is violation of his oath! It all comes down to “ETHICS”, PEOPLE!!!!!!!

SAMUEL ALITO IS AN UNETHICAL JURIST!!!!

IMPEACH, IMPEACH NOW!!!!

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Justice Alito (and all members of the Court) should be a SYMBOL of “justice” . . . but he is obviously one who not only is “bought and paid for” by the right but one who helps buy others. Shame on him . . . and shame on us for not demanding his impeachment.

To simply deny and deny and deny the truth does not make it untrue. Justice Alito attended a fund-raising event sponsored by a stooge of the right-wing.

From your mouth to God’s ear, but I don’t see it happening. The Dems (most, not all) are so busy trying to be pc that bush/cheney will never be tried for their crimes, nor will Alito even be challenged, much less impeached, and we (the non rich) will continue in our downward spiral economically. CU was and continues to be an abomination, but won’t be revisited.

We need a movement to remove this biased judge from the Supreme Court. As a private citizen, Alito could then attend or host any political fund raisers he chose to support. If I would come before the Supreme Court in any case, I would demand that Alito recuse himself.

“Again, what is it that you think Justice Alito did?”
ALL OF THEM.

Where is the word “political” in that list? It’s not there because their code does not permit it.

Non-issue. This is utterly rotten research. The Code of Conduct says who it applies to -

“This Code applies to United States circuit judges, district judges, Court of International Trade judges, Court of Federal Claims judges, bankruptcy judges, and magistrate judges. Certain provisions of this Code apply to special masters and commissioners as indicated in the “Compliance” section. The Tax Court, Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, and Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces have adopted this Code.”

It doesn’t apply to Supreme Court Justices.

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Isn’t this the exact same JUDICIAL ACTIVISM the Republicans were trying to tar-and-feather Sotomayor with?

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The Supreme Court justices are held to even higher standards than regular judges. The suggestion that they somehow have no code of conduct by which they abide is ludicrous.

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Dear Frank Fart, You are full it. Alito’s behavior just goes to show how little hope or faith we ordinary folk can have in American Justice. America without justice is dead

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Dear Fart,
Your first mistake is comparing Kagan and Sotomayor with the sleaze ball Alito. Both justices appointed by Obama have recused themselves from cases in which a conflict of interest might be perceived. Neither are known to attend any kind of political fundraisers.

Alito, Scalia, and now Thomas have all fragrantly disregarded their duties and their oaths, to rule in fairness to rich and poor alike. All three are absolutely disgraceful. All of this Sharia law stuff is just hateful bigoted paranoia.

I say he made a contribution to a political organization by attending and headlining a fund-raising event.

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Yes, and he also threatened the blogger with arrest! He is hostile, and outrageously arrogant. He has crapped on his justice robes. I say throw the bum out, along with Scalia and Thomas.

Well, it should. It hasn’t been written down because these justices are in a place of honor where it is assumed they can govern themselves. Obviously they won’t, and the hubris of their visible support for the wealthy at the expense of the little guy is outrageous. It’s time to impeach Alito, Scalia, and Clarence Thomas.

Shame on you, you toady for the rich. You stand for all that is wrong with this country.

Please post links to any active petitions to remove Alito from the bench – this man needs to be stopped.

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