{"id":596704,"date":"2026-05-05T17:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=596704"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:31:15","slug":"alito-has-had-it-with-a-fellow-scotus-judge-penning-a-scathing-response-to-her-dissent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=596704","title":{"rendered":"Alito has had it with a fellow SCOTUS judge, penning a scathing response to her dissent"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has had it with a fellow SCOTUS judge, penning a scathing response to her dissent.<\/p>\n

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only judge to offer dissent in the case of Callais v. Louisiana<\/em>, and Alito wasn\u2019t about to let it go unanswered.<\/p>\n

Look:<\/p>\n

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Justice Alito has officially had enough of Justice Jackson. pic.twitter.com\/6U6RhkUmoe<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) May 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cThe dissent in this suit levels charges that cannot go unanswered,\u201d he writes, with Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas concurring. \u201cThe dissent would require that the 2026 congressional elections in Louisiana be held under a map that has been held to be unconstitutional. The dissent does not claim that it is now too late for the state legislature or the District Court to adopt a new map that complies with the Constitution. Nor does the dissent assert that it is not feasible for the elections to be held under such a map. Instead, the dissent offers two reasons for its proposed course of action. One is trivial at best, and the other is baseless and insulting.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he wasn\u2019t done there.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe first is compliance with the 32-day default rule set out in this Court\u2019s Rule 45.3, but as the Court\u2019s order explains, there is a good reason to depart from the default rule here. The principal reason for the 32-day default rule is to give a losing party time to prepare a petition for rehearing. But here, the Robinson appellees have not expressed an intent to file such a petition, much less set out any ground on which a petition might be based. And the need for prompt action by this Court is clear,\u201d Alito continued. \u201cThe date scheduled for the beginning of early voting in the primary election has already passed. The congressional districting map enacted by the legislature has been held to be unconstitutional, and the general election will be held in just six months.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second reason offered by the dissent is that we should allow the 32-day period to run out in order to \u2018avoid the appearance of partiality.\u2019 But the dissent does not explain why its insistence on unthinking compliance with Rule 45.3\u2019s default rule does not create the appearance of partiality (by running out the clock) on behalf of those who may find it politically advantageous to have the election occur under the unconstitutional map,\u201d the flame-thrower response notes. \u201cThe dissent goes on to claim that our decision represents an unprincipled use of power. That is a groundless and utterly irresponsible charge. What principle has the Court violated? The principle of Rule 45.2\u2019s 32-day default period should never be so shortened even when there is a good reason to do so? The principle that we should never take any action that might unjustifiably be criticized as partisan?\u201d<\/p>\n

He ended his calling out of Jackson with this: \u201cThe dissent accuses the court of \u2018unshackl[ing]\u2019 itself from \u2018constraints.\u2019 It is the dissent\u2019s rhetoric that lacks restraint.\u201d<\/p>\n

X users reacted:<\/p>\n

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She is completely unqualified to be on the court, talk about failing up<\/p>\n

\u2014 AEKouri (@AEKouri) May 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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How is she SC Justice when she shouldn\u2019t even be teaching pre-school.<\/p>\n

\u2014 hodl-shark (@hodl_shark) May 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Some of the most epic put downs in history are in legal opinions. \"\ud83d\ude02\"<\/p>\n

\u2014 Eve Summers (@wonderwomantoo5) May 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It must be very tiresome to have to deal w\/ such a politically motivated simpleton as a colleague on the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Kmiller (@fade2rt) May 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Alito should have published this in cursive so Jackson would have to have it read to her.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Dr. Jimmy and Mr. Jim (@lexitollah) May 5, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has had it with a fellow SCOTUS judge, penning a scathing response to her dissent. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only judge to offer dissent in the case of Callais v. Louisiana, and Alito wasn\u2019t about to let it go unanswered. Look: Justice Alito has officially had enough of… Continue reading Alito has had it with a fellow SCOTUS judge, penning a scathing response to her dissent<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":596691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,10,21,12,11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cancel-culture","category-censorship","category-civil-liberties","category-election-integrity","category-equal-justice","category-free-speech","category-religious-freedom","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=596704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/596691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=596704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=596704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=596704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}