Steve Vladeck takes a (very) deep dive into Justice Alito’s Saturday night dissent in the AARP Alien Enemy Act case—and how it attempts to invent a series of procedural objections to the majority’s intervention that simply don’t exist. As a constitutionalist, Alito is a fraud.
Comments
- Staggered 19 year terms
- Justices get rotated in/out of the appeals courts
- Strictly enforced ethics policy
- Strong enforcement mechanism for binding decisions
- Expand from 9 to 11 justices
We never had "Mr Justice Smith (a Johnson appointee or a Blair appointee)".
They are eminent lawyers who decide the merits of the law.