— ‘But asking why Alito feels he can get away with it misses the point: he knows he can get away with it … Alito knows that he does not need to maintain any pretext of integrity, intellectual commitment or seriousness in his work. The … justices have done a sufficiently good job of insulating themselves from any accountability or consequence … He’s comfortable being a partisan operative right out in the open.
And why shouldn’t he? He’s not even the worst offender.‘