Opinion: Michael Ian Black: Can We Stop Acting Shocked About Alito Family Shenanigans?

I’m begging you—stop with the Alito nonsense.

If you’re at all plugged-in to politics, you’ve no doubt heard at least snippets of the undercover recordings made by the muckraker Lauren Windsor, which were made public Monday night. The recordings of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, and his wife, Martha-Ann, are juicy, but reveal nothing we didn’t already know about the Alito belief system. We already knew they’re deeply conservative, deeply religious, and represent the outer bounds of rightward thinking on the bench. Nothing about that is disqualifying.

Supreme Court justices, like all Americans, are allowed to hold opinions. They’re allowed to express those opinions, fly flags about those opinions, and generally be as obnoxious as every other American. The notion of an unbiased Supreme Court has always been a fiction, a fan dance designed to create the alluring illusion of impartiality.

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