Unaccountable public official considers any scrutiny too much

To add some context to Sam Alito throwing the missus under the coal-rolling F-350 over his household’s seditious activities, let us remember Martha-Ann Alito’s public origin story:

The emotions spilled over again later Wednesday when Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., offered a tribute to Alito, one that alluded to the criticism of Alito’s past and his character.

“Judge Alito, I am sorry that you’ve had to go through this. I am sorry that your family has had to sit here and listen to this,” Graham said.

As Graham praised “the way you’ve lived your life and the way you’ve raised your children” and spoke of “the law clerks — men and women, black and white” who had praised the nominee, Alito’s wife, Martha-Ann Bomgardner, who had sat behind her husband for hours of questioning over several days, broke down in tears. She later left the hearing room.

The questions that elicited these crocodile tears involved a nominee for an extremely powerful life-tenured position being asked material, substantive questions about his past public statements and actions, statements and actions that proved to be extremely good guides to his future conduct as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Republicans were able to use this incident as another iteration of accusations of BORKING, i.e. “accurately describing the stated public views of Republican Supreme Court nominees,” accusations that get a ridiculous amount of traction from mainstream media sources.

Let us return to Jodi Kantor’s blockbuster story:

In recent years, the quiet sanctuary of his street, with residents who are Republicans and Democrats, has tensed with conflict, neighbors said. Around the 2020 election, a family on the block displayed an anti-Trump sign with an expletive. It apparently offended Mrs. Alito and led to an escalating clash between her and the family, according to interviews.

Look, the Alitos don’t want to be insurrectionists. But if you not only criticize Justice Alito but the president they unwaveringly support, what choices do they have? (It’s also instructive that they seem to take criticisms of Trump as a personal criticism, which in a sense it is.) Alito gave a commencement address about threats to free speech last weekend, which are apparently coming from inside the house.

Anyway, in addition to being one of the worst justices in the largely ignoble history of the Supreme Court, there is no bigger whiny baby. Essentially unconstrained power isn’t enough for these people if the peons don’t like it.