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.

So now we’re supposed to act shocked when it turns out that the severely conservative Catholic Alito family are, in fact, severely conservative Catholics?

On Monday, MSNBC played a clip of Justice Alito speaking in Rome back in 2022, in which he expressed the same sentiment, saying, “Ultimately, if we are going to win the battle to protect religious freedom in an increasingly secular society, we will need more than positive law.”

(I had to look up the term “positive law,” which are just normal laws laid down by legislatures and constitutions, as contrasted with “natural law,” which refers to a universal morality that, supposedly, governs most human interactions.)

In other words, he said the exact same thing in private........

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