Alito bleats

 One of the favorite bleats of the right-wing is "unconstitutional." Folks, the Constitution isn't some computer algorithm where you type in a case and it spits out a constitutional answer. The folks who wrote the Constitution provided ambiguous and incomplete guidance, and lawmakers usually lack the constitutional law training to write legislative language that cannot be challenged on constitutional grounds.

Ultimately, the Constitution means what the Supreme Court says it mean. Accordingly, the appearance of objectivity in the SCOTUS matters for our Democratic Republic. The current court membership includes a majority of right-wing justices who were appointed for life not for their balance and objectivity, but to undo decades of jurisprudence.

A couple of the current justices have publicly lamented the perception that the court now is dominated by right-wing hacks. A thoughtful response would have been to demonstrate how the SCOTUS majority is pursuing a balanced agenda. The fact that Thomas and Alito instead resort to ad hominem tells you everything you need to know about the poverty of their defense. Buckle up peeps. It's gonna be a long ride back to the past. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/alito-supreme-court-texas-abortion/620339/