MAGA troll Sam Alito, having signaled his solidarity with Donald Trump's insurrectionists by flying (or allowing to have flown) an upside-down American flag at his home, is disgracing the U.S. Supreme Court with his mere presence.

That sentence barely scratches the surface. I need to elaborate. As the southern writer Flannery O'Connor said long ago, "You tell a story because a statement would be inadequate."

The story is that Alito, having openly trumpeted his bias in flagrant violation of every judicial code of ethics, deserves to be impeached. But since that certainly won't happen – there aren't enough votes in the Senate, and the chamber's Democrats are predictably too chicken to highlight the issue – at minimum Alito should recuse himself from the long-awaited "immunity" ruling that could whitewash Trump's criminal liability in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

That won't happen, either.

The current high court is a sinkhole of mendacity, and its own ethics code has more holes than a slab of Swiss cheese. For........

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